News for 'NGO Pratham'

Undermining Marathi will not be tolerated: Sule

NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule has criticized the Maharashtra government's decision to make Hindi a mandatory third language in schools, stating that it will not tolerate any undermining of the Marathi language. Sule also criticized the state's implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, expressing concerns about its potential impact on students and teachers. She also questioned the appointment of a retired bureaucrat as the chief economic advisor to the chief minister and criticized the state's performance in areas like fiscal deficit management and the Jal Jeevan Mission.

Google to fund Indian NGOs

The company also announced $765,000 for Bangalore-based Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, $660,000 for Centre for Policy Research, $1,015,000 for Institute for Finance Management & Research (IFMR) while NGO database information PRS Legislative Research will get $880,000.

UID no. to check teachers' absenteeism?

Speaking at a function to release 'Annual Status of Education Report' of NGO Pratham, Nilekani said that UIDAI wants to use technology for better delivery in education.

Pratham hopes to raise 150,000 from NRIs

In school, but not really learning

Pratham's latest report on rural education has some good news, but it's mainly bad.

Raising funds for charity, in style

Kaaru is a collaborative enterprise including around 300 indigenous artisans from around India.

From B-school to dusty rural roads

Starting with villages in Sangli district of Maharashtra, Dharma today sells products and services.

This ex-investment banker is changing rural lives

Gaurav Mehta, one of 100 'Young Global Leaders', is tapping entrepreneurs inside rural Indians.

So much empty rhetoric

If Narendra Modi could tame his obsession with the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family, Arvind Kejriwal resist polishing his halo and Rahul Gandhi find his voice, we could begin a debate about the future of this country that actually addressed the seriousness of its problems, says Rahul Jacob.

Nandan Nilekani commits 5% assets to start-ups

Invests $50 mn in 11 entities in just over a year, commits $25 mn more; prefers putting money in firms trying to solve India-specific problems

Child labour: Huge burden on tiny hands

Just days after Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigns against child labour, photographs captured barefoot children clearing waste from the Yamuna. We take a look at the progress or lack of it on the issue of child rights.

Where have the dhabas gone?

True Indian scenes most often lie on less travelled routes, along roads that have fallen off the map, after modern highways have come up. On the fourth leg of their 2,148 km journey, Rediff.com's Archana Masih and photographer Rajesh Karkera discover one such forgotten place in the Thar Desert.

Will Viral Acharya sing a new tune at the RBI?

Hopefully, the grey world of central banking in a nation hit by demonetisation, will lighten up with some of his notes soon.

No pride studying in a Gujarati medium school?

One of the most glaring contradictions of the more than decade-long Narendra Modi regime in Gujarat is the sad fate of Gujarati medium schools, says Urvish Kothari