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NEW DELHI: On Thursday

THE much-awaited Right to Education Act 2009 will come into force from Wednesday promising compulsory schooling for all children aged between six and 14 years and mandating that all private unaided schools reserve a quarter of their seats for

HRD ministry and states can be happy as 13th Finance Commission has been the most generous for elementary education, allocating Rs 24,068 crore for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to all the states for the next five years. It has also fully accepted the demand for grants made by the HRD ministry.

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New Delhi: HRD ministry has decided to take the help of Unique Identity number project to carry out educational reforms. Foremost among its goal is to use UID to bring the over 80 lakh

After the Educational Development Index (EDI) showed Delhi had slipped from its fourth rank to the eighth place in elementary education, the state is considering taking up the matter with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and National University of Educational Planning and Administration, officials said.

Visakhapatnam, Jan. 31: Worried about the availability of essential commodities to the poor, Union minister of state for human resource development D. Purandareswari expressed her concerns regarding the looming food crisis in the country.

New Delhi: The notification on the Right to Education is likely to be issued soon as most of preparatory work that has delayed it is nearly over. Even the Planning Commission has promised a big outlay for RTE that would kickstart the historic legislation.

THE group of ministers headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has cleared the proposed legislation to make accreditation mandatory for institutes and to set up education tribunals to adjudicate on all education-related disputes.

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