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25 years after it started, Bengal school scraps ‘separate’ midday meals for student of different communities hours after probe begins

June 26, 2025 5:09 am

The school has, since 2000, maintained separate kitchens and utensils for preparing meals, with two cooks as well. Although meals have been cooked on a single gas connection, food has been served to students in separate classrooms based on their religion.

41% maths teachers did not study maths at UG level: TISS Report

January 20, 2024 9:38 am

While the government has been emphasising on multidisciplinary, holistic education, the TISS report has pointed out that there is a great level of paucity of teachers for subjects such as physical education, music and art.

Teachers' Day 2022: This one-of-a-kind primary school near Pune runs 365 days, has not had a holiday in two decades

September 04, 2022 10:56 am

Teachers' Day 2022: How a teacher couple transformed one-storey ‘lifeless’ building to a place full of creative and engaging activities all through the week

Will ensure no child is left out of school: CM Yogi Adityanath

April 05, 2022 9:51 am

The chief minister drew a comparison of student enrollment numbers during his first term with that of the Samajwadi Party’s rule in the state between 2012 and 2017.

700 primary schools in Gujarat run by single teacher, says govt

March 14, 2022 11:16 pm

Replying to various questions during the Question Hour, the government also stated that 86 government-run primary schools were closed and 491 were merged in the past two years.

Rajasthan: All pvt, govt schools in urban areas allowed to hold educational activities up to Class 5

February 14, 2022 8:05 pm

Students would only be allowed to come to campus for studies after the written consent of their parents or guardian. The facility of online study would continue like before.

Odisha increases junior teachers' salary, hike to be effective from January 1

January 04, 2022 10:51 am

The contractual junior teachers who were getting a salary of Rs 7,400 per month will now receive Rs 11,000. Similarly, the salary of regular junior teachers has been increased to Rs 13,800 from Rs 9,200.

UP govt to introduce ‘happiness curriculum' in primary schools from next academic session

December 21, 2021 9:52 am

As part of the pilot project, 150 schools in 15 districts have been asked to work on the curriculum. Five books will be prepared for the children in classes 1 to 5.

Assam govt to merge lower primary and middle-English schools to prevent dropouts: CM

November 19, 2021 9:51 am

Sarma also emphasised the need to fix post-graduation as the minimum qualification for future recruitment of middle and higher education school teachers.

J&K Chief Secretary calls for Panchayat-level monitoring of primary schools to tackle students' dropout

November 02, 2021 10:27 am

The gross enrolment ratio in the primary and upper primary levels have increased from 79.93 and 68.06 in the year 2019-20 to 93.16 and 72.77 respectively in the year 2020-21.

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