Fact Check: Is Punjab’s 2020-21 budget allocation to Education unprecedented?
Following Punjab government’s 8% allocation of the state budget to education in 2020-21, the Congress…
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The ICDS – Common Application Software: What are the Promises & Limitations?
The Finance Minister, during her recent budget speech claimed that more than 6 lakh Anganwadi…
Number of Indian Students in the USA crosses 2 lakh in 2018-19
USA still remains the most popular destination for Indian students. The number of Indian students…
More than 70% of the under-trial prisoners are either illiterate or have studied only up to Class X
The NCRB’s 2017 report on prison statistics reveals that the proportion of under-trials in Indian…
Adult Literacy: Reviewing the ‘Saakshar Bharat’ programme
India made considerable progress in ‘Adult Literacy’ in the last few decades. However, as per…
Explainer: What are School Nutrition (Kitchen) Gardens being proposed by the Government?
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has recently released additional set of guidelines mandating schools…
Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of Higher Education improves, but challenges remain
The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of Higher Education has seen a steady increase over the…
Is a greater proportion of those dropping out from IITs from the reserved category?
The Government provided data on dropouts in IITs which led to multiple narratives being spread…
1 out of every 100 migrants in India move for Education
The migration data from the 2011 census was recently released by the Census office. According…
As demand for Engineering falls, Pharmacy picks up
Number of institutes, approved intake & actual enrolment have all increased in the last 7…
