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UNICEF Disturbed Over India’s Child Labour Bill

UNICEF Disturbed Over India’s Child Labour Bill

UNICEF India said Monday that it welcomes the Rajya Sabha’s recent approval to amend the Child Labour Bill prohibiting children under the age of 14 from working. But it is concerned about one provision that could further disadvantage the most vulnerable children. The provision, “where the child helps his family…
अध्यापकों का आतंक – Teachers’ Terror – कैसे करें शिकायत?

अध्यापकों का आतंक – Teachers’ Terror – कैसे करें शिकायत?

गुरु गोविंद दोनों खड़े, काके लागूं पाँय । बलिहारी गुरु आपनो, गोविंद दियो मिलाय । With his verses, the Indian mystic poet Saint Kabir had given a higher status to teacher than even the God. However, today’s school teachers - particularly in India - have virtually become the descendants of…
Government Invites Applications for Atal Tinkering Laboratories

Government Invites Applications for Atal Tinkering Laboratories

With a vision to ‘Cultivate One Million Children in India as Neoteric Innovators,’ Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across India. The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds; and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational…
Young People Exposed to Lower Quality of Jobs: UN

Young People Exposed to Lower Quality of Jobs: UN

Young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and continuously exposed to lower quality of jobs. The United Nations (UN) is observing July 15 as the World Youth Skills Day with a special event on the theme of “Skills Development to Improve Youth Employment.” Understanding…
Education Policy of India: Why Do You Send Your Child to School?

Education Policy of India: Why Do You Send Your Child to School?

स्कूल की बिल्डिंग स्कूल नहीं है। स्कूल का अर्थ तो स्कूल की पढ़ाई है, जो किसी स्कूल में नहीं हो रही। ~ Rakesh Raman The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India, has released the outlines of the government’s Draft National Education Policy, 2016. Released in the last…
Education Dilemma: Let Us Save the Lives of Our School Children

Education Dilemma: Let Us Save the Lives of Our School Children

Education Dilemma: Let Us Save the Lives of Our School Children Today, the Indian government boasts that India is a nation of the young people. But the government does not realize that in the absence of right education, these young people are like time bombs. By Rakesh Raman As the…
Should Indian Schools and Universities Teach Yoga?

Should Indian Schools and Universities Teach Yoga?

As nearly 80% of the 1.3 billion people of India are Hindus, it becomes a virtual compulsion for all political parties to woo Hindu voters. Politicians, therefore, play all types of tricks to bind Hindus with common threads. Yoga is one of them. By Rakesh Raman The unemployment in India…