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New Indian Express
a day ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Parliamentary panel urges Centre to fill 10 lakh teaching vacancies in SSA-funded schools
NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education has called upon the Education Department to fill up the 10 lakh teaching posts lying vacant in the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)-funded schools of various States. Nearly 7.5 lakh posts are found in the elementary and primary levels of these National Education Mission schools. The Committee, chaired by MP Digvijaya Singh, and comprising 31 Lok Sabha MPs and 10 Rajya Sabha MPs, tabled its report in the Lower House on August 8 and submitted it in the Upper House the same day. This is the 368th report of the committee and is on the topic, 'The functioning of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and initiatives taken to support training of teachers in light of NEP 2020's thrust on Capacity Building of Teachers.' There was no improvement in filling up of vacancy positions in these SSA-funded schools of the state Governments despite repeated recommendations by the Committee in its 349th and 363rd Reports to fill them in a time-bound manner, the Committee emphasised. The vacancy situation 'is worsening day by day due to the retirement of teachers and due to the absence of a permanent recruitment policy.' The panel, therefore, recommended to the Education Department 'to take up the matter of vacancies of teachers in SSA-funded schools of the State Governments strongly." The teachers' salary component of SSA funds of those States which do not comply with the directions of the Department to fill up the vacancies should be kept in abeyance till the respective States comply with the directives of the Centre, it added.
Deccan Herald
3 days ago
- Politics
- Deccan Herald
Congress warns sports bill will ‘centralise power', shield BCCI from scrutiny
The National Sports Governance Bill, 2025 was bulldozed through the Lok Sabha yesterday and will perhaps be subject to the same treatment in the Rajya Sabha today. Yesterday, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth, and Sports…
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Business Standard
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
CBSE to conduct Class 10 board exams twice a year from 2026 session
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday said it has approved norms to conduct Class 10 board exams twice in an academic year from 2026. According to the approved norms, the first phase will be conducted in mid-February, with results announced in April. It will be followed by the second phase in May, with results declared in June. CBSE examination controller Sanyam Bhardwaj said it will be mandatory for students to appear for the first phase, while the second phase will be optional. 'Students will be allowed to improve their performance in any three subjects out of science, mathematics, social science and languages,' he added. This approval comes months after the examination control body released a draft policy for stakeholder feedback in February this year. The approved norms also state that Class 10 students from winter-bound schools will have the option to appear for the board exams in either phase. The new scheme, however, has faced some criticism from the opposition, with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports raising concerns over the policy. In its recent report, the parliamentary panel led by Congress Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh stated that the draft notification leaves room for question paper leaks and other irregularities, particularly because non-core subjects could be examined over two to three days. According to the draft scheme, core subjects such as science, mathematics, social science, Hindi and English would have fixed examination dates in both sessions. Exams for other subjects, except regional and foreign languages, would be conducted two to three times based on student preferences. The draft scheme also states that students would be allotted their examination day based on a formula devised by the CBSE and the subject combinations they have opted for. 'Students will not be given a choice to select the dates of examinations and question papers of these subjects will be taken back from the students after the examination is over,' the draft scheme states.
The Hindu
17-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
T.N. will file case against the Centre in SC for withholding funds over language policy: Stalin
The Union government has been adamant in not releasing funds to the tune of ₹2,152 crore to Tamil Nadu for refusing to implement the three-language policy, and the State government will seek legal recourse in the Supreme Court, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said here on Saturday. Releasing a book, Madhayaanai (The Rogue Elephant), penned by School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, Mr. Stalin said these funds rightfully belonged to the State as recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education headed by former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress MP Digvijay Singh. 'The funds that should have reached students and teachers are being withheld by the Union government due to petty politics,' Mr. Stalin said. Tamil Nadu has recently secured favourable judgments in several cases pertaining to federal rights of States, and he exuded confidence that this case too would end in its favour. The Chief Minister said that the book exposed the Centre's concerted effort to 'saffronise' education and erase the celebration of diversity in the country, and the only way to stop that would be to start a campaign to bring 'Education' back to the State list. Unanimous resolution Mr. Singh said despite a unanimous resolution passed by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education to release Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan funds to Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and West Bengal, the Union government had not done so yet. Besides, the Centre also owed Tamil Nadu ₹500 crore under the Right to Education Act, he added. V. Gopala Gowda, retired judge of the Supreme Court, and Mylswamy Annadurai, former Director of the Indian Space Research Organisation, offered their felicitations. Mr. Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said the book had 12 chapters that discussed 39 contentious sections of the NEP, including the three-language policy. Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin welcomed the gathering.
New Indian Express
03-05-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Caste census casts questions on job creation
All economics, it is said, is about politics. And all politics is grounded in economics—effectively about public policies to enable access to opportunities. This week, the Modi government announced the enumeration of caste in the forthcoming census. Typically, public discourse is riveted on the whataboutery of when who was for it and who was against. Beyond the claims and counterclaims, the inclusion of caste in the census underlines the omnipotence of caste in India's political matrix. It also underlines the chasm between the need for sustainable incomes and India's status rising in a decade from the 11th to the fifth largest economy in the world. The measure of aggregate progress in the past decade hides the stratification across India. The political geography of India's economy illustrates this divergence. India's per capita income is Rs 2.15 lakh. Karnataka tops the list with Rs 3.80 lakh and Bihar trails with Rs 66,828; within Bihar, the district of Sheohar has a per capita income of Rs 19,561. As Nobel laureate Angus Deaton observed, 'averages are no consolation for those left behind'. It is not surprising that the move to enumerate caste originated from Bihar, or that the initiative is timed for the forthcoming polls. Bihar is home to around 12 crore of India's 142-crore population, and at Rs 10.97 lakh crore, accounts for barely 3 percent of India's GDP of Rs 331.03 lakh crore. The distance between Karnataka and Bihar, or between Bengaluru and Sheohar, is about empowerment and employment. The political class has presented the caste census as a panacea for an inclusive reservation system. Quota warriors cite the Rohini Commission's findings to point out that '97 percent of the reserved jobs and seats have gone to 25 percent of OBC sub-castes'. Arguably, the formula of reservation must be backed by data. The caste census will at best a template for inclusion, not expansion in job creation. The momentum of public opinion backing the move clearly casts questions on job creation. Take the IT services sector, which is one of the largest white collar employers. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, in its March 2025 report, cited data to note that 'there is an unusual decline in placements in IITs and IIITs between 2021-22 and 2023-24'. A TeamLease peport in October estimated that only 10 percent of engineering graduates would secure jobs this year. Indeed, another survey, published in March 2025, revealed that 83 percent of engineering graduates have no jobs.
