Bihar

On the occasion of Teachers’ Day, allow me to share the story of Head Sir (as he is fondly called by his students, past and present), founder-principal of a low-fee private school in a remote town of Bihar, and his ordeal while trying to get government recognition for his school.

There was an interesting piece in the Economic Times this week about migrant labour and its effects on the wider economy. Essentially, it said that the government’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), about which I blogged a couple weeks ago, is causing a major change in the labour…