THE education ministry seems all geared up to place before the nation a new education policy within the next three months. A 16-member committee is working at it.

Madhur Tankha

NEW DELHI: Students of Maria

Lack of vision, clear objectives and implementation strategy have delayed the national educational policy that was placed before the federal cabinet for its endorsement.

The cabinet on Wednesday postponed the approval of the document until its next meeting.

The Campaign for Right to Education in Jharkhand (CREJ) asked political parties to make child rights a part of their election manifesto.

The agriculture policy framework courses of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) seem to have stirred imagination of masses about what should be a plausible agriculture policy. Its School of Agriculture (SOA) is getting calls on an average 130 a day from citizens of diverse fields and also from abroad.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government is going to form a committee soon to review the report of Shamsul Haque Education Committee-1997 in order to formulate the national education policy in line with the Qudrat-e-Khuda Education Commission-1974 report.

A top University Professor in Sri Lanka says that twenty percent of school attended students in the country cannot write or sign.

Prof. Ratnasiri Arangala of the Sri Jayewardenepura University said that this is due to the lack of proper guidance.

Save the Environment Movement on Friday formed a human chain in the city

AHMEDABAD: CEPT University's centre of excellence in urban transport will be offering two masters programmes, certification in special areas based on industry needs, to begin with.

Also, training and doctoral research programmes will be conducted, agenda of which would be structured around National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP).

DR MANMOHAN Singh is an honourable man. He is soft-spoken, decent and, unlike most Indian politicians, he did not seek high office to line his pockets with ill-gotten wealth. For that alone, we in India, who continue to suffer consistently at the hands of dark politicians who steal from us, should be eternally grateful.