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the land on condition that they would reserve 25% seats for the underprivileged students. Since the schools were not following the condition, Social Jurist, an NGO filed a public interest litigation which made the high court pass the direction in January this year. The Delhi government, in an affidavit to the high court, claimed on Wednesday that it has decided to issue showcause notices to these schools. The directorate of education, Rajendra Kumar, submitted the affidavit. (Statesman 11.9.04) 13 TH September Unrecognised schools cause despair in kids (11) New Delhi, Sept. 12: Ritesh Jain, 10, has no friends in the school. All his friends, with whom he would play, are now one year senior to him. Young Ritesh is the victim of the "education mafia" that runs thousands of unrecognised schools across the national capital which promise a lot and give nothing. Ritesh's father Anand Jain, a resident of Nirman Vihar in East Delhi, had got him admitted to one such school in the area. After completing his primary education, Mr Anand realised that his son was refused admission in the secondary schools. The reason: his son had passed out from an unrecognised school. By the time he realised the mistake, it was too late. Mr Anand now blames it on the system and the tall claims made by the owners of these schools that they will get the students admitted in regular institutions. "I can say only one thing. It is the duty of parents to verify the status of the primary or middle school in which they want their child to get admitted. Delhi is full of cheats. It is all because of an unrecognised school that my son has lost an year," he says. His grudge is that these schools have mushroomed all across the city and it becomes difficult to verify their credentials. "This is a dangerous trend, as it means playing with thousands of children. It poses problems for a child when they have to seek admission in regular or recognised schools," he says. – (Asian Age 13.9.04) 14 TH September Minorities identify obstacles in education (11) Lucknow, Sept. 13: The National Committee for Monitoring Minorities Education has identified red tapism. excessive government interference and lack of -resources as some of the impediments in the growth of education levels among minorities. The NCMME set up by the Union ministry for human resource development held its first meeting in Lucknow on Sunday where it heard views from a cross-section of people from minority communities. Chairman of NCMME, Mr Zafar Ali Naqvi told The Asian Age that the committee would now tour all state capitals and then prepare a report for every state which would be submitted to the HRD minister by the end of this year. "HRD minister Mr Arjun Singh has taken the initiative of identifying the problems in minority education and hence this committee has been set up. Our first meeting today has thrown up several suggestions which we will incorporate in our report. At a later stage, we may even set up similar committees in every state," he said. Majority of the speakers felt that while the overbearing attitude of the government in opening up new educational institutions for minorities was a deterrent, the non-availability of bank loans for students belonging to minority communities actually served to discourage higher education among the communities. (Asian Age 14.9.04) 17 TH September Anthem gives Gujarat a miss, Modi fumes (11) GANDHINAGAR, SEPT 16: THE omission of "Gujarat" from the national anthem in two text books published by the Kerala Education Department has struck the wrong chord in the Mahatma's land. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging him to take prompt action in the matter. In the letter, a copy of which has also been sent to Kerala CM Oommen Chandy, Modi has described as "shocking" the omission of "Gujarat" from the national anthem in the text books. He has also drawn the attention of the PM to the fact that the same thing had happened last year and the Kerala Education Minister had then given the assurance that the error would be corrected. But the error has been repeated this year again, Modi pointed out. He said the absence of "Gujarat" in the national anthem in the Std IX Mathematics text book published by the Kerala Education Department also raises questions about the motive of certain functionaries of the Kerala government. Raking up the issue while addressing a
function in his hometown of Vadnagar on Thursday, Modi threatened to launch an agitation in Gujarat from October 2 to October 31 if the Central Government, Congress president (Sonia Gandhi) and the Kerala government failed to apologise for "a deliberate attempt to omit 'Gujarat' from the national anthem in the text books". (Indian Express 17.9.04) 21 st September Five months over, no textbooks for students (11) DEHRA DUN, SEPT. 20. The Uttaranchal Education Department has failed to provide textbooks of several subjects to thousands of poor students in government schools even five months after the current academic session began. Indications are that these books may not be available for at least one more month. Parents willing to buy these books, provided free of cost by the State, cannot do so from the market as no private publisher was allowed to print them. According to top Education Department officials, the delay was due to the inability of the Government Printing Press at Roorkee to print these books. "Even if the press left all other jobs and worked 24 hours to print these books it needs more than a month," the officials admit. What is surprising is that the Uttaranchal Government, known to give works that could be done by its staff to private hands, has failed to do so in this case. "Perhaps education is not a priority for the Government," observed a teacher. The absence of books is not all the students face. A large number of schools are without teachers or buildings. A few schools have been given computers without the institution having any access to electricity or teachers trained in computers under the much publicised 'computer education for all' scheme. "The computer and IT scam if probed by the CBI would reveal the mass scale loot going on in the State", observed the principal of a school in Rishikesh. (The Hindu 21.9.04) 24 TH September Now, Savarkar thrown out of Karnataka textbooks (11) Bangalore: Be it Andamans or Karnataka, it seems a "delete" Savarkar campaign is on. As the debate over the historical position of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar grips the nation following the removal of his plaque from the Andaman jail, students in Karnataka have nothing to study about this freedom fighter as his profile, along with his picture, has been deleted from the class VII Social Science book this academic year. Until last year, chapter 11 on "Struggle for Freedom __ II Phase" discussed the role played by Savarkar. But this year, his name has gone missing along with other "controversial figures" like Chandrashekar Azad and Bhagat Singh. "The deletions were not intentional or politically motivated. Our idea was not to project controversial characters at the class VII level, which is why these names were removed," said S Settar, visiting professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies. (Times of India 24.9.04) 25 TH September Protest against commercialization of education (11) NEW DELHI, SEPT. 24. Protesting against "commercialisation" and "communalisation" of education, the All India Democratic Students' Organisation today organised a march from Ramlila Maidan to Parliament House here. A delegation, led by the president of AIDSO, Pratap Samal, also handed over a memorandum addressed to the Union Human Resource Development Minster, Arjun Singh. "We are protesting against the fee hike and the attempts to commercialise and communalise education. There has been distortion in subjects like history," said member, AIDSO, Sau-- rabh Mukherjee. Other issues include demand for allocation of at least 10 per cent of the Union Budget for education, ensuring autonomy of education at all levels and withdrawal of "unscientific" courses. Concentrating on similar issues, in particular "against the fee hike, commercialisation and communalisation of education", the All India Save Education Committee is organising a "Save Education Convention" in the city on Saturday. Formei Supreme Court Judge, Kuldip Singh, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, Rajinder Sa-char, Professor Sunanda Sanya and other distinguished educa tionists are expected to participate in the convention. (The Hindu 25.9.04) Back home, education quota tops PM agenda (11) New Delhi: After having mooted quotas in the private sector, the Manmohan Singh government is
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