Miles to go in Mahuadanr

1 week ago

Micro vans to aide tribal children’s education in TN's Kalvarayan Hills

CHENNAI: Working towards addressing the challenges faced by children from tribal areas in accessing formal education, the Tribal Welfare Department is planning to launch a pilot initiative to provide micro vans to four schools on Kalvarayan Hills of Kallakurichi district. In tribal areas, children have to trek several kilometres through hills and forests to reach the schools due to the …

Tribal Schools Kalvarayan Hills Tribal Areas

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Andhra Tribals Seek More Navodaya Schools

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: Voicing concern over the dearth of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti Schools; especially in tribal areas, Rama Gopal Gaduturi, president of the Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, Andhra Pradesh, shot off a letter to Union minister of education Dharmendra Pradhan, and urged him to set up 13 more such schools for ensuring quality education in the state. Speaking about …

District Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti Schools Gaduturi Navodaya School

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Hanamkonda: Teacher Punishes Student for Ayyappa Mala

Deccan Chronicle

Warangal: Ayyappa devotees protested outside Tejaswi High School located on Hunter Road of Hanamkonda after a physical education teacher allegedly forced Class 7 a student wearing an Ayyappa Mala to stand outside the classroom for a half-an-hour on Monday. One of the school teachers insisted that the student should only come to school in the prescribed uniform and made a …

School Teacher Ayyappa Mala Warangal

3 weeks, 4 days ago

Andhra Pradesh: Minister stresses on roads, welfare in tribal villages

Deccan Chronicle

Inaugurating a new ₹1.75 crore building at the Tribal Welfare Girls' Ashram School premises in Pachipenta, Sandhya Rani wanted road construction prioritised to tribal villages, whose people depend on “doli” for transporting their ill and infirm to hospitals. She pointed out that a substantial ₹2,500 crore have been allocated for developing 2,000 roads in tribal villages within Andhra Pradesh, particularly …

Tribal Tribal Villages

2 months ago

Residents Demand Government Boys' Higher Secondary School in Nagapattinam

The Hindu

Residents of Nagapattinam demand the establishment of a Government Boys’ Higher Secondary School in the town. The absence of a government higher secondary school has affected poor students, whose families could not afford fees demanded by private and aided institutions. Many children opt for vocational courses after Class X or drop out.

Nagapattinam

2 months, 1 week ago

Parents withdraw students from Dindigul school after teachers force wards to clean classrooms

New Indian Express

DINDIGUL: Expressing outrage against the teachers of a Government Middle School at Kothamangalam in Palani for allegedly forcing the students to sweep and clean classrooms, the parents withdrew their wards from the institution on Tuesday. According to sources, a total of 100 students study in the school located in the suburbs of Palani Town and six teachers are employed in …

Students Dindigul School

3 months, 3 weeks ago

When school is an uphill climb away

The Hindu

Amin Kadraka, 14, can tell you all about the latest Instagram reels, go through his Facebook friend list, and expertly navigate through his favourite YouTube videos. In Upparguma, another Dongria Kondh village with 45 families in Bissamcuttack block, only one family has ever sent their daughters to study at a school in Chatikona, 10 km away. However, the baseline survey …

Education Community India Odisha School State Central

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Seeti Bajao School Bulao initiative: How it is bringing students back to school in Jharkhand

The Hindu

Every morning, a group of children in school uniforms of different colours walk through the mohallas of Jharkand’s Simdega district. “These are the children who are otherwise unwilling to go to school; do not enjoy attending classes; are compelled to stay back to help their parents on the farmland,” says Badal Raj, the Sub-Divisional Education Officer of Simdega district. This …

Education Children Students School Jharkhand Schools Whistle

4 months ago

Pudukkottai school building in ruin, students forced to sit outside

New Indian Express

PUDUKKOTTAI: The residents of Mettupatti village of Thirukattalai panchayat in the district have expressed outrage over the education department's neglect of the deplorable condition of the panchayat union middle school building, forcing students to sit outdoors in the scorching sun and dust. Sailipriya, a member of the School Management Committee, stated, "We requested the village and education department to provide …

Students School Building

4 months, 1 week ago

Jind village residents lock school gates over ‘misbehaviour by teacher’

Hindustan Times

Residents of Jind’s Khunga village on Monday locked the main gate of a government school after some girl students alleged that a computer teacher had been sending them obscene text messages and had also tried to “touch them inappropriately”. This comes just two days after the principal of a private school in Jind was booked for allegedly raping a 10-year-old …

School Fir Teacher Jind

4 months, 1 week ago

A 3.5km walk through dense jungle to reach govt schools

Hindustan Times

{Believe it or not!} A 3.5km walk through dense jungle to reach govt schools The children from Gari Fazil, Gari Sheru and Gari Togar villages walk or ride their bicycles through a 3.5km dense stretch of the Mattewara jungle every day to reach their schools and study. The students are forced to face the ordeal as there are no transportation …

Students Student Schools Govt School Kadiana Kalan Mattewara

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Village In Punjab's Kharar Enforces 9 PM Curfew And Other Restrictions For Migrant Workers

News 18

A small village in Punjab’s Kharar sub-district has issued rules restricting the movement and behaviour of migrant workers residing in the area. The Jandpur village in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district, home to a few hundred migrants, has displayed boards listing 11 instructions that migrants must follow to continue staying in the village. The list also restricts more than two …

Migrant Kharar Village Migrants

5 months ago

Poor infrastructure causes hardship to students of Koyyathoppu panchayat school

The Hindu

The Koyyathoppu Panchayat Union Elementary School in Athavathur Panchayat, a 64-year-old institution, faces significant infrastructure challenges notwithstanding the construction of a new building this year. “This is a legacy school, but poor planning in the new building’s construction has affected the students. Athavathur Panchayat president K. Thanalakshmi said work had been taken up to build a playground on a 10,000 …

School Panchayat Koyyathoppu

5 months, 1 week ago

Andhra Pradesh: Tribals demand appointment of teacher

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: The Tengalabandha Kondadora tribe, residing in the Kiverla panchayat hilltop village of Anantagiri mandal, Alluri Sitaram Raju district, made a remarkable sacrifice. Pandavula Satya Rao told the Deccan Chronicle, “Despite promises from authorities, the school shed has remained empty for weeks, and no teacher has been appointed. After building the school shed, we urged the district collector and ITDA …

Village Tengalabandha

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Job goal for Arunachal students: Change distance to villages from hours to kilometres

The Hindu

GUWAHATI Distance in far-flung villages of Arunachal Pradesh is often measured by the time taken to trek or drive, often in a sturdy off-roader, down to the nearest urban centre or the district headquarters. Children of such villages along the Myanmar border in the State’s Tirap district have a job goal — to be in positions that enable them to …

Students State Villages District

5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Delay in upgrading school in hill area contributes to child marriages and dropouts in Erode district’

The Hindu

The delay in upgrading the Panchayat Union Middle School at Kottadai village in Hasanur panchayat in Talavadi Union as high school and lack of public transportation to reach the nearest school at Hasanur is contributing to the prevalence of child marriages and dropouts in the hill area. To study in class 9, students have to travel 20 km through a …

Students School Class Reach Child Marriage Hasanur Kottadai

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Visakhapatnam: Overflowing stream disrupts tribal kids’ schooling

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: Tribal students belonging to Tengilabandha village of Kiverla panchayat in Anantagiri mandal of Visakhapatnam, studying in classes I to V, are unable to attend their MPP Elementary School in Gangavaram, two-and-a-half kilometres away because of an overflowing stream. There are 27 Konda Dora tribal families living in Tengilabandha village, which grapple with this issue every year whenever there are …

Village Tengilabandha Village Schooling Visakhapatnam

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Four hilltop villages in Alluri Sitarama Raju district lack basic education & med services

New Indian Express

VISAKHAPATNAM: Four hilltop villages in the Alluri Sitarama Raju district face significant challenges in accessing basic education and medical services. Kottemguda, Goppilapalem, Kadarevu and Kalyan Gummi villages, situated in the Pinakota and Gumma Panchayats of Anantagiri mandal, are home to around 150 Konda Dora tribals. The 38 school going children in Kottemguda, Goppilapalem, and Kadarevu villages, along with 22 children …

Children Villages Kadarevu Kalyan Gummi Goppilapalem Med Services Kottemguda

8 months ago

Bihar teacher dedicates first salary to slum children's education, fuels local initiative

New Indian Express

BIHAR : The significance of one’s inaugural salary in their professional journey is universally acknowledged, but a government school teacher in Bihar elevated its importance by dedicating her month’s earnings to procure school bags, water bottles, and other essential stationery items for children residing in a Begusarai slum. Meet Sneha Sharma, a recent addition to the teaching staff at Radha …

Children Bihar Begusarai Slum Ki Pathshala

1 year, 3 months ago

KTR to inaugurate school at Konapur on Sept. 20

Deccan Chronicle

KAMAREDDY: After Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao announced that he would contest from Kamareddy, his minister son K.T. Rama Rao will visit the constituency on September 20 to inaugurate the government school building, which was constructed with money out of his own pocket at his ancestors’ village Konapur in Bibipet mandal. The minister had laid the foundation stone for the …

Village Konapur

1 year, 4 months ago

Parents of Ward 40 in Coimbatore Corporation request for toilet facilities in Anganwadi in Veerakeralam

The Hindu

To stop open defecation by children near a temple on Pongaliyur Road in Veerakeralam, the residents of Ward 40 have requested the local authorities to set up toilet facilities. According to shopkeepers and residents, many of their children study at the anganwadi centre, located close to a temple, a community hall, and a Corporation Middle School, and has an Integrated …

Road Toilet Area Corporation Toilet Facilities Veerakeralam Ward 40

1 year, 5 months ago

At last, Jajulabandha hilltop village gets a school

The Hindu

The tribal people of Jajulabandha hamlet, a hilltop village, in Alluri Sitharama Raju district, were all smiles as the Mandal Education Officer formally inaugurated the school on July 6. Seeing newspaper reports on the plight of the young children, who had to trek down the hill and walk long distances to reach a school, the National Human Rights Commission took …

School Rao K Jajulabandha Hilltop

1 year, 6 months ago

Project for schooling of migrant children in Kerala at a crossroads

The Hindu

When Muhammed Dilshad notched up full A+ in the SSLC examination back in 2019, its significance went far beyond being a mere personal achievement. “We launched the project on a trial basis in November 2015 in the first standard where the teacher was accompanied by a multi-lingual educational volunteer, who helped migrant children understand the lessons in their language and …

Education Children Students Volunteers Academic Schools Migrant

1 year, 10 months ago

Kolam Adivasi children unable to learn alphabets due to lack of Anganwadi centres

Deccan Chronicle

ADILABAD: Many Adivasi children, especially Kolam Adivasis who are considered a particularly vulnerable tribal group, are unable to learn the alphabets due to the lack of Anganwadi centers in their villages. Kumram Suru Yuva Sena district general secretary, Kumara Raju, said the organisation had submitted proposals to officials for setting up of Anganwadi centers in Kolam gudas including Masala-Dubbaguda, Chinnugida …

Children Villages Village Mandal Adilabad Anganwadi Kolam

1 year, 11 months ago

Students of Bargur Hills in Erode district trek 8 km to school every day, due to lack of government transport

The Hindu

In the absence of transport facilities, 110 students of eight tribal hamlets in the Bargur Hills of Erode district are being forced to cover 8 km on foot every day, to reach the Government Higher Secondary School at Oosur. A total of 280 students, including 160 girls, from Onnakarai, Thambureddy, Oosur, Kovilnathan, Periya Sengulam, Chinna Sengulam, Agnipavi, Kongadai, and Periyur …

Students Transport School Bargur Hills Kongadai

2 years ago

‘I Bawled’: A Congresswoman’s 18-Month Fight For A Neglected Tribal School Just Paid Off

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — Buried in the 4,155-page omnibus spending bill unveiled in the Senate on Tuesday is a single sentence that’s likely to go unnoticed by almost everyone — except the first-term congresswoman who fought for it with everything she had for the last year and a half. “For an additional amount for ‘Education Construction,’ $90,465,000, to remain …

Education Children Congress Senate House Officials Bill

2 years ago

Eklavya schools running with just 58% of the teachers: Government data

The Hindu

The Eklavya Model Residential Schools for tribal students across the country are currently functioning with just 58% of the teachers required to do so, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday in response to a question from the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge. In response, the Minister of State for Tribal …

Tribal Affairs Teachers Schools State Emrs

2 years, 1 month ago

NHRC Notice to Punjab Govt Over No Access to Proper Educational Facilities in Kaluwara Village

News 18

The National Human Rights Commission has served a notice to the Punjab government over a media report that students in Kaluwara village in the state do not have access to proper educational facilities. Taking suo motu cognizance of the media report, the National Human Rights Commission said the students, especially the girls in Kaluwara village, first walk on foot in …

Commission Punjab Nhrc Media Report Kaluwara Kaluwara Village

2 years, 2 months ago

AAP will build schools at every four km in eight Gujarat cities if it comes to power, says Manish Sisodia

The Hindu

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said if the Aam Aadmi Party is voted to power in Gujarat, it will build a government school at every four kilometres in eight cities within a year. Mr. Sisodia claimed that out of the 48,000 government schools in Gujarat, 32,000 were in bad condition, as per a mapping of schools done …

Delhi School Gujarat Schools Sisodia Eight Cities Every Four Kilometres

2 years, 4 months ago

Uttar Pradesh govt gears up to build India’s first education township

Live Mint

In a first, the Uttar Pradesh government is planning to build an education township in the state. As per the Yogi Adityanath government, the education township will be developed on the idea of 'Single Entry, Multiple Exit'. Yogi had recently directed authorities to prepare a comprehensive action plan for setting up five education townships in the state during a meeting …

Uttar Pradesh Education Township

2 years, 4 months ago

Many schools yet to reopen in flood-hit ASR district

Deccan Chronicle

KAKINADA: Many schools in Chinturu agency areas of Alluri Seetharama Raju district and in Kukunuru and Velerupadu mandals of Eluru district have not yet reopened, despite education department issuing orders to reopen schools after floods in River Godavari have abated. Floods in the agency areas have been so heavy that complete mud and slush from classrooms in the schools are …

School Schools Houses Clean

2 years, 4 months ago

350 Jharkhand schools drop ‘Urdu’ from their name, 460 change weekly offs: Govt

Hindustan Times

RANCHI:The Jharkhand government has directed deputy commissioners of all districts to take corrective measures after it noticed that the word Urdu was added to hundreds of non-Urdu primary schools in areas with a dominant Muslim population in the state, and the weekly holiday changed from Sundays to Fridays, government officials said on Tuesday. Jharkhand education minister Jagarnath Mahto ordered a …

Change Jharkhand State District Urdu Schools

2 years, 5 months ago

Jharkhand: Class 4 student beaten up by principal Abul Kalam for writing 'Jai Shri Ram'

Op India

On July 9, a minor student of a state-run school in Giridih, Jharkhand was brutally assaulted for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the classroom’s blackboard. — Organiser Weekly July 14, 2022 According to a local media report, the headmaster of Upgraded Govt Middle School Palmo, Mohammad Abul Kalam, on July 9, thrashed the class four student, after he learned that …

Students School Student Jharkhand Giridih Jai Headmaster

2 years, 5 months ago

Jharkhand: Muslim community in Garhwa got school prayer changed as ‘they are 75% of population’, even stopped children from folding hands

Op India

A report in Dainik Jagran has stated that in Jharkhand’s Garhwa, some members of Muslim community got a school prayer, that has been offered since years, changed. The report further states that the Muslim community also objected to folding hands during the prayer and got the same to stop. The school administration said that since past few months the people …

Community School Muslim Muslim Community Prayer School Prayer

2 years, 5 months ago

Combined efforts of stakeholders help propel enrolment drive

The Hindu

The combined efforts of the stakeholders coupled with renewed focus on strengthening the school infrastructure and introduction of English medium instruction in all government schools have led to marked improvement in student enrolment in many State-run schools in north Telangana region in the current academic year. The increased community engagement in the vigorous “Badi Bata” enrolment campaign highlighting English medium …

School Schools State Strength District Government Schools Private Schools

$Nandkumar Mohite, a farmer\'s contribution to higher education of Ratnagiri$

2 years, 6 months ago

Nandkumar Mohite, a farmer\'s contribution to higher education of Ratnagiri

Deccan Chronicle

Rapidly growing population, shortages of teachers, books, and basic facilities are some of the nation's toughest challenges to meeting many national problems including education. As he is very well conversant with the difficulties faced in getting higher education in villages especially by the children of labourers, farmers and fishermen, he started a trust called Shramik Kisan Seva Samiti in the …

Education Higher Education Higher Mohite Seva Samiti Filaantro Shramik Kisan

2 years, 7 months ago

KTR to build school in memory of grandma in native Konapur

Deccan Chronicle

Rama Rao laid foundation stone for a modern government school building with an estimated cost of Rs 2.50 crore from his personal funds in memory of his grandmother Venkatamma in his ancestral village Konapur on Tuesday. Interacting with the villagers, Rama Rao said after addressing the power and drinking water problems and irrigation projects in the first term, the TRS …

School Rao Rama Rama Rao Konapur Venkatamma Posanipalle

2 years, 7 months ago

Shortage of teachers: Karnal students take to the roads

Hindustan Times

Students of a Government Middle School in Karnal’s Manchuri village took out a protest march to the mini secretariat in the scorching heat to protest against shortage of staff and lack of basic facilities on Tuesday. The students said their school had been upgraded to a middle school three years ago but it had no drinking water facility or toilets. …

Students School Protest Karnal Basic Facilities

2 years, 7 months ago

Gurugram: Masked youth beat students inside school premises

India TV News

In a daring incident, three masked youth barged into the government senior secondary school at Abhaypur village in Sohna block and beat up several Class XII students with sticks. Following the incident on Monday, angry villagers held a panchayat against the alleged attackers in the school premises on Tuesday. The villagers decided that they will not send their children to …

Students School Gurugram Village Sohna School Premises Masked Youth

2 years, 9 months ago

Myanmar families divided over education amid turmoil

The Hindu

Khin Maung Shwe, a 49-year-old father from Yangon, came under fire from his family after he enrolled his only daughter in a government-run school. Approximately 12 million children missed school for 18 months due to COVID-19, coup-related protests and conflict, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report from 2021. Students urged not to attend state schools Some families, however, …

School Teachers Coup Myanmar Schools His Son Nug

2 years, 10 months ago

Challenge of tribal population's education taken in mission mode, says tribal affairs minister

India Today

Interacting with the students of Eklavya Model Residential Schools across Jharkhand, Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda said that the government has taken up the challenge of education of the tribal population in mission mode and we are working to catapult them to an international level. Over 450 Eklavya Model Residential Schools sanctioned The government has also sanctioned 452 …

Students Scholarships Tribal Affairs Tribal Schools Minister Tribal Students

2 years, 11 months ago

In Mizoram village, students trek miles to access internet for online classes

India Today

For the second year in a row, lack of internet connectivity has become a long-standing challenge for the students of Mawhrei village as they will once again have to uphill trek through dense forest for about 3 to 4 km in order to attend online classes. KL Paul Vanropuia, president of Mawhrei village unit of the Mara Students Organization, said …

India Organization Students Internet Mobile Connectivity Online

3 years, 2 months ago

Train like building other unique methods attract students to remote Jharkhand school

India TV News

Classrooms that look like train compartments, a gigantic “snake and ladder” game board painted on the floor and some innovative teaching methods have attracted students to a school in a remote village in Jharkhand’s East Singhbumn district. “Thirty-five new students got enrolled since the school re-opened post Covid-19 restrictions on September 24,” said Tiwary, the acting principal of the school. …

Students School Jharkhand Train Village Jamshedpur Tiwary

3 years, 3 months ago

285 dilapidated classrooms in Khammam spell danger

Deccan Chronicle

Khammam: Nearly 285 classrooms in different schools across 22 mandals are in urgent need of repairs. The condition of another 285 rooms is even worse after continuous rains completely damaged walls as were roofs of 125 rooms while cement slabs in another 160 started falling. P N Bhaskar, a teacher in a government school in Nelakondapalli, said “Dust of up …

Rooms Khammam Classrooms Spell Danger

3 years, 3 months ago

J-K: Community classes being held for tribal students

Hindustan Times

Rajouri, September 8 : Amid uneven terrain and hard climatic conditions, community classes are being held on the higher reaches of the Pirpanjal range in the Pir Marg area of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district for children of tribal nomadic communities which undertake seasonal migration towards upper reaches for six months. J-K: Community classes being held for tribal students Seven …

Community Children Students Kashmir Tribal Administration Jammu

3 years, 3 months ago

Jharkhand: Bokaro Village Youths Build 5-KM Road After Appeals to PM Go Unheard

News 18

Remember the ‘Ekla cholo re’ song by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore? After their appeals to PM Narendra Modi and actor Sonu Sood failed, they took up axes and shovels to carve a road in their remote village. Sanjay Mahato, who hails from the highly militancy-affected Aman village, which is situated in the Gomia block of Bokaro district of Jharkhand, had previously …

Jharkhand Road Village

3 years, 4 months ago

We Need Caring Schools to Bring Back Millions of ‘Offline’, Pushed-out Children

News 18

There is a strong call for governments to reopen schools. A survey conducted in 200 villages of Tamil Nadu found that enrolment in government schools had increased by 5 per cent while it dropped by 7 per cent in private schools during the pandemic. About 80 per cent children were from government schools and others from private schools. Over 90 …

Education Children Tamil Nadu Parents Teachers Jharkhand Child

3 years, 5 months ago

Army starts schools for Gujjar and Bakkarwal community children in Jammu And Kashmir's Ramban

India TV News

With an aim to impart quality education among children of the Gujjar and Bakarwal community, the Army has started three schools in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district. Children of the community suffer severely from lack of education infrastructure while ‘deras’ migrate to their summer abodes, an official spokesman said. The community heads approached the Army seeking …

Community Children Army Schools Gujjar

3 years, 5 months ago

Nearly 5 decades after demolition, Urdu medium school awaits a new building

Hindustan Times

At a time when the Delhi government is inspecting newly built schools and prepping them before students return to campus, an Urdu medium school operating out of a derelict temporary accommodation at Shahi Eidgah has been left unattended. Located in Old Delhi’s Sadar Bazar area, the Shahi Eidgah serves as a campus for Qaumi Senior Secondary School that was demolished …

Delhi Students School Land Building Old Classes

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