Education

Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh is a tribal zone. The literacy rate here is 43.3%. And still, 55 students from this area have cleared the IIT-JEE Mains. Most of them belong to small villages and have to walk several kilometers to reach their government-run schools. This achievement has to be credited to a

Bhilar, a village located between the hill stations of Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani will soon be famous as it will become India’s first “village of books”. Maharashtra Minister for Culture Affairs and Marathi Language Vinod Tawde informed that 15,000+ books would be made available and placed at

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, schoolchildren from over 2,000 government and private schools across Delhi will get an opportunity to learn legalities from sitting judges, former judges, public prosecutors, psychologists, social workers and lawyers. The students will be informed about legal

Kalpit Veerval of Udaipur has created history by scoring 360 out of 360 in the JEE mains. Never before had anyone scored cent percent marks. Kalpit had appeared from the SC category and has topped across categories. Rajashtan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, in a tweet, has congratulated Kalpit

After the news of child prodigy Kautilya Pandit from Haryana, comes the news of one Abhishikt Kumar Gupta, in Ranchi -much younger and equally talented. Born in a peasants’ family—his father Kuldip Prasad Gupta is a farmer holding a below poverty line (BPL) card—this 4 years and 10 months old child

Every morning, Mohammad Mustafa, 55, sets off on his bicycle through the narrow bylanes of Ranchi. In a cloth bag slung from the handlebar are a set of brushes, a few bottles of paint and some placards. He stops when he sees a wall with enough space for a powerful message: “Adhe pet khaayenge, phir

To allow students with special physical needs to read a book along with regular students in a classroom, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) unveiled a series of 40 booklets on Friday. The council will study the impact of these books to determine if the technology used

This is the story of Chanka village under Srinagar block of Purnea dist of Bihar. This village has about 4,000 tribals, and is identified as a hub of manufacture, sale and consumption of country liquor. Once when Purnea SP Nishant Tiwari reached Chanka the locals were apprehensive. However in this

We often here of how government schools are ill-equipped and the education being provided is so bad. But instead of just criticising this when one starts thinking of solutions changes do come. Today's Indian Express gives a story by its reporter Alifiya Khan, which talks of how the local community

This is the story of one Prachi Sukhwani which will be an inspiration for all youth. Prachi is 21, and her vision was steadily waning, but her sight was on getting admission to the prestigious IIM-Ahmedabad. A student at the Maharaja Sayajirao University's faculty of commerce in Vadodara, she

Many a times we hear of teachers not attending to their classes. And in such circumstances how can we expect imparting of good education. Such cases are mostly in government schools, particularly in remote areas, and states like UP have comparatively very high such cases. Here comes a very positive

This is the story of a remote village in Jharkhand. To promote education among the girls residing there local village women committee selects an educated girl and a lane in the village is named after her. Juri, the non-descript village some 150 km south of state capital Ranchi, has initiated this