The food security is an important issue for the people of India. The central government came up with a legal enactment to provide food security for the citizens. This was a long awaited constitutional measure to check the problems of malnutrition and deaths due to hunger in the country. Everybody is aware that, a larger
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The Movement for Peace and Justice, Maharashtra (MPJ), organised a press conference here to apprise the media regarding non-disbursement of Minority scholarship by the government of Maharashtra. This minority scholarship was launched for the students belonging to minority communities under the 15-point programme by the Prime Minister. Addressing the media, Muhammad Siraj President of the
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Pune: The Movement for Peace & Justice organised a two day workshop of District and Taluka level Presidents on 16th and 17th May, 2015. In this workshop various advocacy issues were discussed. The legal framework of right to education Act 2009 was taken up to train the cadres. Syed Gyasuddin of Jalna presented the mechanism
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“All persons should be educated, so we could have peace in the world”. This is a very famous quote of John Amos Comenius, who is considered as a father of education. It is a fact that, peace can’t be established unless certain rights are not guaranteed to all of its citizen and definitely education is
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The RTE Act 2009 envisages that the education is a fundamental right of every child who is between 6 and 14 years of age. This legal enactment echoes a right-based approach to the education of our children. The sole purpose behind this right-based approach is to maximize the development of children, so that they become
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A very large number of our children never get admitted to a school, and they do not complete even elementary education due to various socio-economic reasons like, migration, extreme poverty, homelessness of the family, children living or working in urban slums, in streets, on railway platforms or construction sites, working as domestic workers, child labourers,
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As we know that the RTE Act has made it very clear that, every child of the nation is entitled to get free, compulsory and quality education. The aim of the Act is not to simply increase the rate of literacy, but to produce well educated children ready to take the mantle of nation building.
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The School Management Committee (SMC) has a very critical role in achieving the goals of RTE. It has remarkable potential to transform the present system of education to more result oriented. In fact, this is a vital component of our primary education system and a big step to democratize the education process in the country
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There are two tier grievance redressal mechanisms available in the state of Maharashtra, as mandated by the RTE Act, 2009. These are local grievance redressal authority, which consists of SMC/ local authority and the Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. The RTE Act provides constitution of the Commission for the Protection of Child Rights
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सामाजिक सुरक्षा पेंशन योजना सरकार द्वारा ज़रुरत मंद, दृष्टिहीन तथा अशक्त लोगों, यतीम बच्चों, जानलेवा बीमारियों से ग्रस्त मरीज़ों,विधवा, पति द्वार छोड़ दी गयी महिलाओं, वेश्यावृति इत्यादि से मुक्त की गयी औरतों इत्यादि को विभिन्न योजनाओं के माध्यम से वित्तीय सहायता प्रदान की जाती है! इन योजनाओं में कुछ राज्य सरकार तथा कुछ भारत सरकार
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