Tag: education in india
No Cards
Girl Living in the Slum, Becomes the Second Topper in Odisha
It was a tussle between poverty and education, a slum dweller, Subhashree topped second scoring 93% in her exams.
School at the Risk of Collapsing due to Mine Blasting
A regular class in Kujuma Government School is interrupted with a deafening blast. The walls shook and the ceiling threatened to fall down. But in five minutes later, it was a usual business for the 40-50 children studying in the government primary school. This is not a warzone, this is...
Caste Discrimination keeps Dalit Children from Schools
In Uttar Pradesh, a primary school accommodates students from nearby villages in Pratapghar district. Among them is Mansi, a student of class two. Mansi has a startling revelation: the principal forced her to dispose off the carcass of a puppy. When she refused to do so she was brutally caned....
Caste Discrimination keeps Dalit Children from Schools
In Uttar Pradesh, a primary school accommodates students from nearby villages in Pratapghar district. Among them is Mansi, a student of class two. Mansi has a startling revelation: the principal forced her to dispose off the carcass of a puppy. When she refused to do so she was brutally caned....
Right to Education is the Right to Life
Rakesh Lakra is a 3rd standard student at the Bihaband Primary School in Odisha’s Sundergarh District. He worries that if things continue as they are, he will not be able to learn much at school. With only one teacher, there is little discipline or teaching and chaos reigns supreme. A...
Denied Special Education
The Right To Education Act 2010 (RTE) guarantees free education for disabled children. The Government is meant to provide a special teacher for children with disabilities as well as specific learning material. However, for partially sighted Rekha Gishbhai this is not the case. Her mother explains how: “She sits on...