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Govt apathy or connivance? HOW THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION IS WRONGED Activists allege govt, schools and education officials are trying to scuttle right to education of poor; city DEO data says RTE allotment in 107 schools less than 30% against intake capacity raising questions over the RTE admission process Harita.Dave@timesgroup.com TWEETS @harrytaMIRROR Delay in resuming … More Govt apathy or connivance? HOW THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION IS WRONGED

SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW Himanshu.Kaushik & Kapil.Dave@timesgroup.com Ahmedabad: The state government has admitted that Gujarat has 1.11lakh malnourished children. Of those children, 19,980 are severely malnourished. The socio-economic review 2017-18, however, states that children up to five years of age were screened and 29,442 were identified as severely acute malnourished (SAM) and 1,89,841 were identified as moderate acute … More Over 1L malnourished children in state: Govt of Gujarat

Teacher, we don’t understand what you teach in class! NCERT Survey Finds Only 50% Of Students In Class V & VIII Comprehend Subjects Ahmedabad: There is something wrong in the way children are taught in our primary classes. A little more than half of the students in classes V and VIII in government as well as … More NCERT Survey Finds Only 50% Of Students In Class V & VIII Comprehend Subjects

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These parents have allegedly submitted forged income certificates to avail of the free of-cost education under RTE quota; FIRs to be filed against parents, government officials too may be booked for fraud  Harita.Dave@timesgroup.com | TWEETS @harrytaMIRROR While several cases of well-off parents cheating the deserving ones out of benefits of Right to Education Act have come to … More Misuse of Right to Education Act DEO cracks whip, 60 parents to be booked for fraud

By Rajiv Shah The new Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2017: Beyond Basics), an annual survey carried by the high profile NGO Pratham, has found that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home district Mehsana has a whopping 20.3% children in the age group 14-18, who are not enrolled in either school or college. While this … More In PM’s home district Mehsana, 20% teens, age 14-18, “not enrolled”, one of the highest in India; 55% are wage earners

A note on the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2017: Beyond Basics) released in New Delhi on 16 January 2018: Every year since 2005, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has reported on children’s schooling status and their ability to do basic reading and arithmetic tasks. Year after year, ASER has highlighted the … More Learning deficits seen in elementary school is carried forward to adolescents and young adults

DEO (City) asks schools to maintain basic facilities like clean toilets and drinking water Thanks to the upcoming election, city school students will have access to clean toilets and proper drinking water. A recent circular by the District Education Officer (Ahmedabad City) has directed more than 300 primary, secondary and higher secondary schools to ensure … More Poll fest: Students to get access to clean toilets