- Post by Politic India on 02/May/2023
Contrary to the spirit of National Policy of Education 2020 all the statutory authorities of public universities of Bihar (like academic council, senate, syndicate etc.) have become meaningless to some extent. Public universities move between two power centres like a pendulum. Through mindless instant reporting, undue pressure is mounted upon the universities and they hardly find time to work in stress-free environment.
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- Post by Politic India on 01/Jan/2022
Dear friends,
After the year of gloom and dispair, we have stepped into a year of hope. Let us resolve to make this world a better place to live.
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
... read more- Post by Politic India on 01/Jan/2022
Dear friends,
After the year of gloom and dispair, we have stepped into a year of hope. Let us resolve to make this world a better place to live.
Khagendra Kjmar
Chief Editor
... read more- Post by Politic India on 09/Nov/2021
Khagendra Kumar, Chief Editor
We are celebrating Chhath pooja which gives the cultural identity to Bihar. A long festive season that starts with Shardiya Navratri and Durga pooja and ends with Chhath pooja. Unlike other popular Hindu festivals like Durga Pooja, Deepawali, Holi, Chhath pooja is mainly celebrated by Biharis. This is a festival of people's faith i... read more
- Post by Politic India on 07/Oct/2021
The Politic India wishes a vey happy Shardiya Navratra & Durga Pooja to all its readers. May Godess Durga bring peace, happiness and prosperity on earth!
... read more- Post by Politic India on 31/Oct/2020
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
My alma mater is celebrating its centenary & it is perhaps the only institution in India resulting from the womb of Indian freedom struggle has succeeded in attaining the highest glory among the multidisciplinary universities of India providing education from nursery to doctorate.
Seer listening to its Ta... read more
- Post by Politic India on 23/Aug/2020
Today Dr. Radhakrishna Singh left us for his heavenly abode. Its a great loss to the academic circle of teacher educators in Bihar. He served as a lecturer in the prestigious Patna Training College of the Patna University for nearly a decade. He served as the principal of Virayatan B.Ed. College, Pawapuri for several years. He also served as principal of some other teacher education colleges. Currently he was serving as ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 22/Aug/2020
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
Thousands of students wanted JEE and NEET to be extended further to a date when the corona pandemic becomes manageable in terms of high probability of infection. The director of IIT Delhi said in a NDTV programme today that life must go on and JEE mains must take place on the announced date as all safety preparations are done at the centres and arou... read more
- Post by Politic India on 15/Aug/2020
Khagenda Kumar
Wish all the readers & viewers of the Politic India portal A very Happy 74th Independence Day!
The world is facing the wrath of COVID pandemic-19 so as India. There is an urgent need for sincere global cooperation in order to get rid of this viral disease. So far nearly 20 million people are infected and over 400 thousand people have lost their lives. Million... read more
- Post by Politic India on 20/Mar/2020
Khagendra Kumar
In a caste ridden Indian society where the welfare state is trying hard to abdicate its responsibility of protecting the interest of its millions of marginal and deprived people, a small proportion of entrenched elites and well off people are trying to revert the ongoing efforts for providing sustainability to our development by creating mechanisms for patc... read more
- Post by Politic India on 28/Dec/2019
KHAGENDRA KUMAR
To understand the aftermath of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), it would be quite relevant to revisit the issue of rehabilitation and resettlement of tribes and villagers displaced by the mega Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) of Narmada basin. several thousand people living in the Narmada basin could not get compensation as they were not having land-patta (land document) of their dwellings. In order to signal the ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 02/Nov/2019
Khagendra Kumar
Every year the Politic India comes out with an article on the famous Chhath festival of Bihar which spreads the message of humanity, equality, love for nature, and importance of family and community- bond . It carries the great tradition of Bihar t... read more
- Post by Politic India on 26/Oct/2019
- Post by Politic India on 26/Oct/2019
- Post by Politic India on 26/Oct/2019
PhD Coursework Exam Modality
I came across the modalities of PhD coursework examination on my whatsapp today. The process of evaluation of practicum work of Paper I & II in the course work of Education (of 20 marks each) which include writing of a learned paper, a book review, related literature survey on a problem, preparing a research proposal and constucting a standardized tool during the six month course work is not ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 02/Oct/2019
Challenges of school and teacher education are immense in India. In spite of making elementary education a fundamental right of our children, the governmental and non-governmental reports suggest that a large number of children have not achieved foundational literacy and numeracy at the elementary level of schooling. The draft NEP 2019 says "If action is not taken soon, over the next few years the country could lose 10 crore or more stude... read more
- Post by Politic India on 02/Oct/2019
A school teacher gets low salary. There is no permanent cadre of school teacher in Bihar. The existing permanent cadre of teachers is declared dying cadre. They have very poor service conditions. They conduct elections. They conduct different sorts of census. They have several responsibilities, from collection of ration to accounting, regarding mid-day meal . Some of them are often deputed in blocks and other offices for non t... read more
- Post by Politic India on 16/Jun/2019
Prof. Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor, Politic India
This summer we planned a family tour to Bali, a picturesque island of Indonesia. We started a family trip to Bali from Pune on the 6th of June, 2019. We started at around 2:00 p.m. and drove to Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj Airport Mumbai. We started our air travel at 11:50 p.m. We reached Den... read more
- Post by Politic India on 17/Apr/2019
(source of the photograph -Patna Daily.Com)
KHAGENDRA KUMAR
Altough I have never supported the demand for converting Patna University into central university. The state's premier university must remain with the state. The first three universities Madras, Calcutta and Bombay preferred to be state universities rather to become central university. Moreover they ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 13/Nov/2018
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
Every year the Politic India comes with an article on the famous Chhatha festival of Bihar which spreads message of humanity, equality, love for nature, and importance of family and community bond . It carr... read more
- Post by Politic India on 22/Jun/2018
(Experience received from Dr, Savita Kausal, NIEPA, New Dellhi on whatsapp)
While studying in Switzerland, I rented a house near the school. The landlord Kristina is a 67-year-old single old lady who worked as a teacher in a secondary school before she retired. Switzerland's pension is very rich, enough not to make her worry about eating and drinking in her later years. However, it is puzzling that she actua... read more
- Post by Politic India on 29/Nov/2017
Savita Kaushal, Ph.D. (DU)
NUEPA, New Delhi
Gender equality is a core principle of human development. To quote the eloquent words of Mahbub ul Haq, “Development, if not engendered, is endangered.” The literature on socio-economic determinants of educational attainments has mainly focused on enrolment and primary education. Generally employing limited dependent regression models, ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 27/Oct/2017
people celebrating chhath at Mahendru Ganga Ghat at Patna
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
The Politic India comes with a blog/write-up for its readers on the eve of Chhath festival. The existence of hu... read more
- Post by Politic India on 19/Oct/2017
May This Diwali be as bright as ever.
May this Diwali bring joy, health, and wealth to you.
May the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear ones lives.
May this Diwali bring in you the brightest and choicest happiness and love you have ever Wished for.
May this Diwali bring you the utmost in peace and prosperity.
May lights triumph over darkness.
May peace transcend t... read more
- Post by Politic India on 13/Aug/2017
- Post by Politic India on 13/Aug/2017
- Post by Politic India on 25/Jun/2017
Politic India wishes all its readers, friends, partners and well wishers a very happy Eid!
Eid Mubarak
... read more- Post by Politic India on 26/Jan/2017
- Post by Politic India on 14/Jan/2017
UGC, New Delhi has released a list of nearly 38000 journals which does not include any journal in Indian languages. These journals are cut and paste of easily available list of foreign journals on the websites. In fact only a few Indian English journals are there in the list. India publishes a large number of print and online journals in English and different Indian languages. Quality of a good many of these journals is better than journals en... read more
- Post by Politic India on 25/Dec/2016
Indian pulic spirit is truely secular. In spite of some abberations of misuing religious traditions and its popular practices for political and sectorial gains, Indian people like to live in harmony and enjoy all all popular festivals and traditions. Come December, spirit of chirstmas spreads across the nation. We start loving traditions of christianity. We feel elated looking at well lit& decorated churches; houses, shops & streets of... read more
- Post by Politic India on 16/Dec/2016
- Post by Politic India on 03/Nov/2016
MUST LISTEN TO LOUD & CLEAR MESSAGE OF CHHATH
In Chhatha Puja, perhaps, Bihar gets its best cultural identity. It is very difficult to find evidences for faith and at the same time it is also impossible to falsify reasons for faith that is religion all about. The sun is worshipped in Chhath puja. It is a universal fact that s... read more
- Post by Politic India on 07/Oct/2016
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor, Politic India
Why so much confusion in the country regarding surgical operation by Indian armies in POK whereas there is no confusion regarding killing of 18 army jawans by Pak sponsored terrorists. It must be acceptable to all that the country must speak in one voice when fighting war with another country. But why questi... read more
- Post by Politic India on 05/Oct/2016
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
There is urgent need to rejuvenate general school education in India. The situation is so grim that nobody except those who cannot afford private schooling send their children to public schools. The people have atleast some faith even in unrecognized private schools. Few decades before there was strong linkage betwee... read more
