Gender Gap and Absence of Equity in Education
Absence of Equity
- The absence of equity in education is another big failure of RTE. Of the 6.064 million out of school children, a whooping 4.6 million or 76%, belonged to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other religious minorities. Issues, such as those related to the 25% reservation of seats for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in private schools; poor educational infrastructure in rural areas compared to urban centers; cases of discrimination on the basis of caste; and neglect of targeted elementary education schemes for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and other backward communities are serious in ....
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Social Justice
- 1 Arguments in Favour and Against UBI
- 2 Future of Social Protection Schemes in India
- 3 Present Status of Social Protection in India
- 4 Criminalizing Marital Rape
- 5 Political Empowerment of Women
- 6 Women are not only Vulnerable to Climate Change, They are Also Effective Agents of Change
- 7 Women & Climate Change
- 8 Policy Measures to Address Low Female Participation
- 9 Lower Female Labour-force Participation to Affect Growth Potential
- 10 National Action Plan for Children, 2016
- 11 Maternal & Child Health: Present Status & Government's Interventions
- 12 Is the National Health Protection Scheme Good Public Policy
- 13 Public Private Partnership in Healthcare
- 14 Present Status of Universal Health Coverage
- 15 Should Health be brought under Concurrent List
- 16 Findings of ASER 2017
- 17 Quality of Education
- 18 The Concept and Practice of Inclusive Education
- 19 RTE Act has been a game-changer, but India needs to go beyond Basics
- 20 Recent Initiatives in Education Sector
- 21 Major Achievements & Failures of RTE