Pushing ahead with inclusive education
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As technology-aided education gathers steam, the Centre and State governments need to engage with teachers from tier-II and tier-III cities to increase inclusivity and also provide a fillip to the employability quotient in the education domain
The academic and professional standards of teachers constitute a critical component of the essential learning conditions for achieving the educational goals of any nation. In the past few years, the focus of teacher preparation and performance has shifted from training to education if it has to make a positive influence on the quality of curriculum transaction in classrooms and thereby pupil learning and the larger transformation in society.
The Year 2020: Full of manufactured crises Zafarul-Islam Khan 03 Feb 2021
The year 2020 was unusual in our recent history. Not only we grappled with an unprecedented epidemic, our country also saw during this year two of the biggest protest movements in our history.
Anti-CAA-NRC protests: The first was the anti-CAA-NRC movement across the country. This continued for more than three months and could be stopped only under the Corona lockdown restrictions. These protests were triggered by the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), piloted by Home Minister Amit Shah with a grandiose plan to marginalise Indian Muslim by snatching away citizenship of millions of them. This movement was spearheaded by ordinary people, especially by Muslim women who braved the cold weather and continued to protest at hundreds of sites across the country for over three months. The protests could be dispersed only using the Covid lockdown late in March 2020. While gove
The Union Budget for 2021-22 gave little assurance to migrant workers and the unemployed.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday reiterated some old schemes like the One Nation One Ration Card to enable the beneficiaries get rations in places where they have migrated for work. She proposed to launch a portal that will collect information on gig, building and construction workers. This will help formulate health, housing, skill, insurance, credit and food schemes for migrant workers.
However, Sitharaman was silent on the demand from academia and civil society groups for an employment assurance scheme on the lines of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for the urban people.
Avtar Group ANI | Updated: Feb 02, 2021 12:59 IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India] February 2 (ANI/BusinessWire India): On the occasion of the Union Budget 2021 having been presented in the parliament by Nirmala Sitaraman, Minister of Finance, Government of India, and the announcement that women will be allowed to work all shifts, there is a lot of speculation about how this will impact women s representation. Budget 2021 has immense potential to increase the employment of women. With the creation of two vaccines which, will ensure a return to normal economic activity, the schemes announced are well thought through and appear inclusive especially when the IMF has predicted double-digit growth for India, said Dr Saundarya Rajesh, Founder- President, Avtar Group, a social enterprise working to increase women s workforce participation and gender diversity across the country.
As many as 450 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns totalling more than Rs 4.28 lakh crore, according to a report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation