The World Bank has expressed interest in supporting the newly launched Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) scheme for improvement of quality of secondary education in the country.
The Ministry of HRD has agreed to the proposal of the World Bank and has written to Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) for further action, DEA sources said.
Children in 6-14 age group to be enrolled in govt schools
Acting Deputy Commissioner Mandeep Singh Brar has devised a scheme to enroll in government schools all those children of the district who are currently not attending any school.
Their friendship with the animal world began on Friday with understanding the behaviour and habitat of different species of primates at the State Zoo here.
Indian universities are likely to find themselves under a new oversight body, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal announced last week. Physicist Yash Pal led the committee that recommended setting up a six-member National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) to reform higher education.
This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production. The empirical results show that accumulation of biological human capital prior to a disaster helps children maintain investments during the post-disaster period. Biological
DHENKANAL: The Total Sanitation Campaign has received lukewarm response in Dhenkanal since its inception in 2005 despite availability of funds and infrastructure. So far, only 23 per cent of the district has been covered under the Campaign