Here's the full text of address to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on the eve of the Republic Day 2022.
'There are large cohorts of students who cannot recognise the alphabet or numbers.' 'We are suggesting schools 'start early and end late'.'
... Are far-reaching social changes coming with it, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Why do Innovation Revolutions happen outside India, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'What can be applicable in Manipur may not make sense in Bengal'
Asserting that Uttar Pradesh has undergone a complete transformation under his government, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday that there have been no riots since 2017, strict action has been taken against the mafia and the state is in the frontline of implementing welfare schemes, ensuring the ease of doing business and fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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What does the National Educational Policy 2020 mean for students, parents and teachers?
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions.
Of the seven surveys presented under Modi govt, predictions of three were quite close to the actual GDP growth rate, one saw the base year change in between, but the last three were way off the mark.
To a question on switching loyalties between one party to another, she said she would stay put with the BJP for all time.
Sitharaman said the government will bring in a new national education policy to transform India's higher education system into one of the best in the world.
Modi's visit to Bahrain is significant as it will be the first visit of an Indian prime minister to the country.
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
'If there is one thing our politicians, especially those with their ear to the ground, understand, it is the reality that their voters want three things from their children's schooling: English, English, English', notes Shekhar Gupta.
Disale announced that he will be sharing 50 per cent of his prize money with his fellow finalists to support their "incredible work".
He said COVID-19 can be a catalyst towards the adoption of digital technologies in health and education and drive change in a way that even venture capital funds have not achieved despite pouring billions in investments.
From India's fight against COVID-19 to China face-off, Kovind spoke on several issues during the televised address.
Do India's laws governing the Internet need revolutionary change, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Soon after the above government order was released, the Opposition strongly condemned the move.
Giving priority to one's ideology over national interest has harmed the democratic system of the country a lot, Modi said in his address to students after unveiling the statue through video conferencing.
'When an individual becomes authoritarian, you can overthrow the individual easily. 'When the system becomes authoritarian, whoever challenges the system will be called a criminal or an anti-national.'
'English must be taught extremely well to all children in all schools, and especially so in those schools where the medium of instruction until Grade 5/8 is in the mother tongue/local language/regional language.'
Are breakthroughs on this imminent, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Does IAS officers' work go unappreciated, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'With English the most rapidly growing medium of instruction in India's schools and accounting now for more than one-sixth of the total (next only to Hindi, which accounts for a half), India is not about to turn its face away from a language that has global currency,' notes T N Ninan.<
'Tamil Nadu will never allow the Centre's three-language policy'
...and getting GDP to measure India's data economy, recommends Ajit Balakrishnan.
The draft of the new National Education Policy, proposed by the panel constituted in the previous Modi government, had suggested teaching of Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states.
...Is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Twitter users flooded the social network with messages against the move, making #StopHindiImposition and #TNAgainstHindiImposition the top trends on platform.
Women and children have been given short shrift with these crucial sectors facing substantive budgetary cuts, discovers Rashme Sehgal.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Budget for 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha that is expected to provide relief to the pandemic-hit common man as well as focus more on driving economic recovery through higher spending on healthcare, infrastructure and defence amid rising tensions with neighbours, As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth Budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
However, 183 of these languages are in different degrees of endangerment.
While Rs 37,461.01 crore has been allocated for higher education, Rs 56,386.63 crore has been earmarked for school education.
Will it trigger a social and management revolution as well, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'A mother, a farmer and cattle owner, all have valuable knowledge, but academia has failed to acknowledge their wisdom.'
'He spoke about 20 jawans in Ladakh, but he couldn't even name China.' 'He said the world had seen what had been achieved, even though we Indians don't know because Modi has himself said that nothing had happened and nobody had come,' points out Aakar Patel.
Will Covid-19 permanently change higher education, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The politicisation of ethnic sentiments in the state has coincided with the ascent of the BJP and increased activities of far right Hindu outfits, which organised rallies and other events on religious occasions such as Ram Navami a festival not very popular in West Bengal- unlike states in north India.
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