Two of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry

The Union Cabinet is on Thursday likely to approve a revision of the Mid-day Meal Scheme and the Rs 5,000-crore plan to ensure Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at schools.

Three months after the ambitious Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was passed by the Parliament, the government remains undecided on when to make it effective.

The law, passed with a thumping majority on August 4 by the Lok Sabha, has received the Presidential assent but is yet to come into force in technical terms, with the gazette notification still to be issued.

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the nodal grievance redressal authority for implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, will soon set up a special cell to monitor a child

With unprecedented investment planned in education, the government is looking at upgrading infrastructure at schools and colleges across the country along with lifting the quality of the learning they impart.

Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal (extreme right) inaugurating the Central University at Tiruvarur in the presence of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi

THANJAVUR/TIRUVARUR: The future universities of India should be radically different and evolve into centres of excellence to meet global challenges, Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday.

New Delhi: After the euphoria comes the real test. The cost of implementing the Right to Education Act over the next five years by the Centre and states works out to a whopping Rs 1.78 lakh crore.

The new law will come into force from the next academic year and since education is now a fundamental right, it is mandatory on the part of the government to provide what is demanded.

It has become an annual confluence of ideas and ideology, a high-powered forum where Union ministers, chief ministers and those in charge of key ministries in strategic states meet to debate the hot-button issues of the day as well as discover the true state of their states.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday became the first minister to release a

While the HRD ministry is yet to calculate the cost of providing free and compulsory education under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday said it would need about Rs 9,000 crore to achieve the objective.