Tag: education in rural india

IWD2021 | Orphaned in Childhood, This Woman Fought Against All Odds to Educate Herself and...

 
/ March 8, 2021

Dr. Jaymati Kashyap has worked to preserve the Gondi language and rescued many women from human trafficking.

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Child Labour Continues to be Tolerated and Accepted

 
/ January 6, 2020

Despite Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, there are 10.1 million working children between the age of 5 to 14 in India. 

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Odisha Government Continues to Shut down Schools, Denying Right to Education

 
/ May 13, 2019

Established in 1991, the only primary school of Khasua village in Odisha received a closure notice, depriving children their right to education.

Filthy Toilets Push Students Away from School

 
/ March 30, 2015

30th March 2015 | Chapariya Village; Suriyawan Block; Bhadohi District | Anil Kumar Saroj 107 students at this primary school have to defecate in the open as their school has no toilets. They’ve been in a state of disrepair since the past three years and cause an inconvenience not just...

A Threat to Education

 
/ April 3, 2014

Bihar is a state caught between floods, crime and a flailing economy. The development indicators here are one of the worst of the country. Community Correspondent Reena reports from here on the affect all of these have had on 400 students in one school. On a winter morning in January...

The ( Lack Of ) Girls Toilet

 
/ January 22, 2014

The RTE Act mandates that each school must have a separate toilet for girls and boys. Three years after its implementation, there are thousands of schools across India that do not fulfil this requirement. VV-PACS Correspondent Rekha Bhangre reports one such case from Seoni District Madhya Pradesh. The Marzhor Primary...