Literacy programs to continue in five districts

The Central government has issued orders to continue literacy programmes under the continuing education scheme in Haveri, Mysore, Mandya, Bangalore city and Bidar districts of the state.
Representing Haveri in Karnataka, the District Adult Education Officer, said that the new ‘Jana Sakrata Abhiyana’ program aiming to train illiterates from the scheduled caste and scheduled [...]

Out-of-job workers seek fees waiver for 4 months

The four-year-old son of Dinesh Parmar cannot study any longer as his father has been unable to pay his school fee for the last three months.  Parmar, a labourer in a diamond unit of Ahmedabad, has been jobless, with no other source of income since October 23. Dinesh is not the only father who is unable [...]

Qualitative change for underprivileged

Underprivileged families in and around Killing-Khanapara areas of Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya can look up for a qualitative change through the University of Science and Technology promise  for free, subsidize education, besides faculty development programmes for the school around the proposed University. After the Government of Meghalaya passed a bill facilitating the University to start [...]

This class takes place in AMTS bus

It is truly a revolution on wheels. This ought to put a full stop to debates on mid-day meals and other incentives to coax underprivileged children back to school. This mobile school is in the form of a modified Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services (AMTS) bus, which drives into slum areas to educate children for three hours. [...]

India starts putting its street children in schools

Eleven-year-old Anurag never went to school because he had to scavenge through Delhi’s bins, dumps and gutters in search of sellable trash each day before spending his nights sleeping on the street. Now, thanks to India’s biggest effort yet to educate every last child, he has a smart blue uniform and has started going to a [...]