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2002. Directing the government to file a compliance report within four months, the Bench asked the directorate of education to hand over to the DDA a list of erring schools. The DDA will then take action against them. Some of the prominent schools that are now under the scanner include Modern School (Vasant Vihar), Delhi Public School (Vasant Vihar, Vasant Kunj, East of Kailash), Blue Bells (Kailash Colony), Apeejay (Sheikh Sarai), Cambridge (Rajouri Garden), Cyan Bharti (Saket), Laxman Public School (Hauz Khas), J D Tytler School (Munirka) and Green Field Public School (Vasant Vihar). The PIL, filed by Ashok Ag-garwal on behalf of <strong>Social</strong> Jurist, said there are 1,500 unaided recognised schools in Delhi. More than 1,200 of them were allotted public land at throw away prices. The reason was, the PIL said, to help the schools in discharging their social obligation by providing free education to children from the weaker sections of society (Times of India 21.1.04) New education channel, 4 FM stations launched (11) New Delhi, Jan. 26: Human resources development minister Murli Manohar Joshi said on Monday that the country must prepare for a major increase in demand for places in colleges and universities in the coming years. His assessment was based on the projected results of his ministry's education-for-all campaign — the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan — aimed at ensuring that every child between 6 and 14 completes elementary school by 2010. More children passing out of school will put more pressure on the higher education system. "I have created chaos." he said, referring to his favourite education scheme and its impact in the future. The country will need more facilities for middle-school in the next five or six years, and for higher educiation in about four years after that. "If we don't prepare in time, we will fail in dealing with the situation," he said. Even the distance-learning facilities available now will not be able to handle the demand. He was speaking at the launch of a new education channel on television, and of four 1-M radio stations, broadcasting educational programmes. Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also attended the inauguration. (Asian Age 27.1.04) DU, JNU, Jamia teachers’ strike on January 22 (11) New Delhi: Classes at all central universities will remain suspended for a day on January 22 due to a strike by the teachers. The strike has been called to protest against some new proposals and regulations issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The bandh call, given by the Federation of Central University Teachers' Association (FEDCUTA) will be followed by teachers of DU, JNU and Jamia. The issues at the centre of the controversy are the UGC's recent directions on common entrance tests and the "model act" proposed for regulation of universities. "UGC's new regulations on common entrance exams are against the universities' autonomy We are also against the proposed model act as it will encourage blatant commercialisation of higher education," said FEDCUTA secretary, Jaswinder Singh. DU teachers are hoping that students and clerical employees will also join the agitation. (Times of India 7.1.04) Municipal schools in Gujarat churning out illiterates (11) Ahmedabad: Jeetu Thakore, 12, does not know how to read and write. Give him a book and he can barely manage to stutter, forget making sense of what he is reading. Jeetu has passed his exams and is currently studying in class VI in a municipal school in Ahmedabad. Over 60,000 primary school students studying in classes III to VII in municipal schools in Gujarat do not know their alphabets and numbers and cannot read and write! This revelation has been made by a report prepared by the Gujarat Council for Education, Research and Training (GCERT), which comes as a strong indictment of the state-funded education system in urban Gujarat. The survey was carried out in 1,283 municipal schools in six cities of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar in December 2003. "Over 4.91 lakh students in these schools were assessed for their reading, writing and numerical skills as well as their understanding of the subject of which 60,000 were found to be extremely weak in reading, writing and numerical skills," said secretary in-charge of GCERT, Bharat Upadhyaya. Interestingly, the GCERT survey report may just be the tip of an iceberg as there are indications that the number of school-going illiterates may be much higher. (Times of In dia 5.2.04) Assam’s education programme for children of militants (11)
GUWAHATI, FEB. 4. The Axom Sarba Siksha Mission, a society under Education Department of Assam, is devising a special mechanism for providing education to the children of the militants of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom and the National Democratic Front of Boroland, who have been handed over by the Royal Bhutan Government. The State Home Secretary, B.M. Mazumdar, on Tuesday told The Hindu that the mission had been instructed to arrange for the education of all those children who were now living with their "combatant" mothers in jails. The Royal Bhutan Government handed over 27 children, in the age group of two to 12 years, on December 24 following operation "All Clear" in which 30 camps of ULFA, the NDFB and the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation were destroyed. The Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, on December 30 announced that the Government would take full care of these children and provide them better education and health care. The children, accompanied by their mothers and other combatant women, were brought to Tamulpur in Nalbari disrict in two buses from Bhutan's bordering district Sam-drup Jongkhar, where the Royal Bhutan Army had kept them since December 15. (The Hindu 5.2.04) Admission of poor students in schools (11) NEW DELHI, Feb. 7. — All unaided public schools in the Capital which have failed to admit poor students as per their lease agreements in return of getting land at concessional rates are in for trouble in the coming days. The Delhi government's education department is planning to cancel the recognition or recommend the cancellation of lease of all such unaided schools which are found to be violating the agreement. The Delhi education minister, Mr Arvinder Singh Lovely, told The Statesman: "Once we have reviewed the reports submitted by all the schools, we are going to take stringent action. We are planning to cancel the recognition of all such schools which are not complying, or we could take over the schools ourselves." This is not all. The education department is also planning to make it mandatory for all such schools that have been granted land at subsidised rates to give admission to poor students up to 25 per cent of their seats from the next academic session. "We are going to make it mandatory for unaided public schools to comply with the agreements signed by them and admit poor students from the next academic session," said the minister. (Statesman 8.2.04) Few India girls get to complete school (11) New Delhi: Here's yet another confirmation of India's poor record in the field of school education. The latest South and East Asia regional report of Unesco <strong>Institute</strong> of Statistics says India has the highest number of out-of-school girls in South and East Asia. The report says almost 45 per cent of the 28 million out-of-school girls in East and South Asia are from India. They are children who are officially of school-going age but do not receive primary education. Based on the figures of 2000-2001, the report says in India, only half of the children who enter primary school reach class V. The dropout rate is 53 per cent and survival rate is 47 per cent, the lowest in South and East Asia. Despite this dismal scenario, public funding in education has not risen in India. The report says India spent 4.1 per cent of its GDP on education in 2000- 2001. Out of the total government expenditure, India spent 12.7 per cent on education. Pakistan spent only 1.8 per cent of its GDP on education. Bhutan did better with 5.2 per cent, Malaysia spent 6.2 per cent and Iran 4.4 per cent of its GDP on education in 2000-2001. (Times of India 10.2.04) Cheating a way of life for students in Bihar (11) Patna: "There are no students in Intermediate colleges of Bihar; there are only examinees," said a senior official of the Bihar State Intermediate Council while reacting to the recent violence in the state against measures to stop cheating in the ongoing Intermediate exam. At least two people died at Sasaram, over 100 km from here, when the police opened fire at the examinees indulging in arson and violence after their six colleagues were expelled for allegedly cheating at an examination centre. Several vehicles were set on fire and many government offices and the railway station vandalised. Earlier at Biharsharif, 80 km from here, the Inter examinees set ablaze the examination hall of Nalanda College there and tried to throw a senior district official in his burning vehicle. In fact, over 200 of the 2.43 lakh examinees writing the Inter exam at 243 centres in the state have so far been expelled. Alarmed over the ugly manifestation of "might is right" by the
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