Path-breaking rules under the Right to Education Act, in Gujarat

One major initiative of the Indian government, in the field of education, was the Right to Education Act of 2009. This act has major problems, as has been argued by numerous observers and experts in the field. This Act…

INDIA’S SORDID EXPERIENCE WITH POPULATION CONTROL

India’s flirtation with socialism from the time of Independence contributed to massive suffering of its people. But over much of the past decades, politicians found it easier to blame their own citizens for bearing too many children rather than…

Should Minority Schools be Exempted from the Right to Education (RTE) Act Norms?

The Supreme Court has, in a recent verdict, by a majority of 2:1, upheld the validity of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, most significantly the clause mandating 25% reservation for…

More than 60 million pre-primary children waiting for the system to respond

The first chapter in NCERT’s grade one Hindi textbooks expects children to write small words and names. It assumes that children already have alphabet knowledge. Similarly for mathematics, the…

Caste…what caste?

(This post was written by Akanksha Bapna, Coordinator, Research at CCS.)

The declaration by the Gujarat Department of Education to remove any derogatory reference to caste, religion, profession or gender from school textbooks and their ban on the use of surnames to…

25% Reservation: A perception study on its implementation and impact

With the enactment of the Right to Education Act (specifically Clause 12 i.e. the reservation of 25% of the entry-level seats in all private unaided schools for government-sponsored Economically Weaker Section…

A Bamboo Controversy Yet Again

(This post is written by Karmanye Thadani)