- 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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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
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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
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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!
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Khagendra Kumar
Patna University celebrated its 105th foundation day on the 1st of October, 2021. As many as 41 toppers of various undergraduate programmes were awarded gold medals. In bagging the gold medals, girls outnumbered the boys with a ratio of 32:9. This was described by the chief guest on the occasion, Shri Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Education Minister... read more
- Post by Politic India on 21/Nov/2020
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 to rest of the country and even various parts of the globe. The Chhath festival redefines worship and people’s faith in a rational practice.
The Chhath fest... read more
- Post by Politic India on 17/Nov/2020
खगेंद्र कुमार
चीफ एडिटर, पॉलिटिकल इंडिया
पिछले 2 वर्षों के दौरान विभिन्न राज्यों में हुए चुनाव में भारतीय जनता प... 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 24/Oct/2018
Of late the very conduct of Election Commission of India is being questioned. In spite of vehement denial, ample instances came to the fore where electronic voting machines were found to be functioning in favour of the political party in power. It is the duty of the EC to accept complaints and take appropriate note of those complaints. The EC must maintain highest standard of objectivity.... 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 15/Oct/2017
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
Patna University turned 100 years this month and Centenary celebration was held today, i.e. on 14 October 2017 on the premises of Patna Science College in the presence of Prime Minister of India, Narendra Bhai Modi; Governor of Bihar, Satya Pal Malik; Chief Minister of Bihar, Ni... read more
- Post by Politic India on 01/Oct/2017
Dr.Sudhakar Prasad Singh
Member, Syndicate, Patna University
At present Bihar has two upcoming central universities, Central University of South Bihar, Bodhgaya and Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motiha... read more
- Post by Politic India on 30/Sep/2017
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editir
The Indian democracy is losing the power to dissent and protest. Universities are important carrier of democracy anywhere in the world. Universities are the most important places for dissemination, acquisition, evaluation and creation of knowledge. Universities are meant for addressing issues of Polity, econom... read more
- Post by Politic India on 12/Sep/2017
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
Now Anitha is dead. She committed suicide as her ambition to study medicine was shattered as she got relatively poor score in a centralized NEET. It has been certified by her school principal and teachers where she got senior secondary education and people of her village that the girl was very good at study and was very clear and serious about her goal in l... read more
- Post by Politic India on 13/Aug/2017
- Post by Politic India on 13/Aug/2017
- Post by Politic India on 26/Jul/2017
Savita Kaushal, PhD (University of Delhi)
Honorary Editor, Education
The 1970s and 1980s were the decades when the concept of management was talked about and advocated for implementation in schools. The advent of the 1990s witnessed the emergence of the concept of leadership as a concept for implementation in schools. The ... read more
- 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
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Khagendra Kumar, Chief Editor
It is high time to look into the deteriorating state run schooling system in Bihar in particular and rest of India in general. It is a fact that quality of education in public schools is poor due to reasons not difficult to identify. Extreme reflctions of quality loss in school education were observed in secondary and senior secondary school examinations of BSEB for last 3-4 years which also earned ... 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 02/Jan/2017
Khagendra Kumar
Chief Editor
We should strive harder for better India in 2017 so that common people could live with some dignity having access to good food, proper dwellings, health facilities, ... 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
- Post by Politic India on 05/Oct/2016
Introduction
Cultivation of science should include knowledge of science as well as capacity to recognize the misuse of science. We live in exciting times, for it is the century of science and technology. Informal science learning environments (e.g., science museums, zoos and outdoor settings; youth programmes; science media) could be utilized to maximize this end. Informal science learning can take place in many envi... read more
- Post by Politic India on 05/May/2016
Competition Commission of India (CCI) established in March, 2009 to prevent practices having adverse effect on competition, to promote and sustain competition in markets, to protect the interest of consumers and to ensure freedom of trade carried on by other participants in markets in India.
Since its inception, CCI has been passing orders with far reaching implications in a number of cases encompassing a wide range ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 27/Sep/2015
Greece officially joined the single currency Euro on January 1, 2001, with an official conversion rate of 340.75 drachmas to the euro. Although, Greece sought to join the euro in May 1998 but it did not qualify the criterion to enter into the Eurozone. The required criteria were to: (a) limiting public debt to 60% of a state’s GDP. (b) limiting the annual budget deficit to -3% of GDP., (c) limiting inflation rate to not exceed 1.5 ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 21/Aug/2015
Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley presented budget for financial year 2015-16, and projected a fiscal deficit of 3.9% for the financial year 2015-16. In this budget, plan expenditure, which boosts assets and creates jobs, decline to Rs 4,65,277 crore from Rs 5,75,000 crore. However, there is marginal increase in Non-Plan expenditure which is estimated at Rs. 13,12,200 crore for this financial year. Total Expenditure has accordingly bee... read more
- Post by Politic India on 21/Aug/2015
TRAI wants to Tame OTTs with licenses & regulations; net neutrality is at threat in India. TRAI, on behalf of telecom firms have said that OTTs are single handedly eating their revenues using their platform, and they want to implement licenses and regulations to milk money from OTTs. Some other stats shared by TRAI in this paper-as on January 2015 WhatsApp had 700 million users, all over the world and 30 billion messages were sent on a... read more
- Post by Politic India on 21/Aug/2015
Elementary Education is now a fundamental right in India. Since the implementation of Right to Eduducation Act (2009) in April 2010, various measures are said to be taken by the central and state governments to ensure this right to all children. Although there is no denial that without universal elementary education a society can never achieve the basic goals of development and civic life. The Supreme Court of India in Unnikrishnan vs state of... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-04-12 17:15:01
TRAI wants to Tame OTTs with licenses & regulations; net neutrality is at threat in India. TRAI, on behalf of telecom firms have said that OTTs are single handedly eating their revenues using their platform, and they want to implement licenses and regulations to milk money from OTTs. Some other stats shared by TRAI in this paper-as on January 2015 WhatsApp had 700 million users, all over the world and 30 billion messages were sent on a... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-03-15 21:55:44
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Act, 2013 was enacted by the Parliament after a long struggle by various peoples movements based on the experience of forcible, unfair & unjust land acquisition under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The Act 2013 was passed on 29 August 2013 in the Lok Sabha and on 4 September 2013 in Rajya Sabha. The bill received the assent of the P... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-03-15 15:36:34
About the Book Education is a mission for those who have a strong passion for teaching; it�s a vision for those who conceive of education in global context conducting academic exercises in a global classroom with a global curriculum wherein an individual learner appears as a learning member of one world. So vast is the canvas of the modernization of education that it can�t conceive of the educational growth of an in... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-03-04 18:05:00
Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley presented budget for financial year 2015-16, and projected a fiscal deficit of 3.9% for the financial year 2015-16. In this budget, plan expenditure, which boosts assets and creates jobs, decline to Rs 4,65,277 crore from Rs 5,75,000 crore. However, there is marginal increase in Non-Plan expenditure which is estimated at Rs. 13,12,200 crore for this financial year. Total Expenditure has accordingly been esti... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-03-04 17:48:14
The new series of national accounts with a revised base year of 2011-12, released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on 30 January, 2015. The base year of the national accounts is revised from time to time, but this time the CSO has also revised the methodology of calculating these statistics in line with requirements of the System of National Accounts (SNA), an internationally accepted standard. Now Central Statistics Office will start me... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-01-18 17:53:31
The process of winding up of the Commission had already initiated by the Manmohan Singh government by inviting a neo-liberal economist who had been a Fund-Bank employee to head the Commission. Modi government has gone the whole length and has completed this process. In fact the winding up of the Planning Commission itself marks a major step towards the consolidation of a neo-liberal State. As we know, Neoliberal Policy measures include opening... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-01-13 08:28:43
On January 1st 2015, Socialist-era Planning Commission is replaced by a new think-tank, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. The institution will serve as �Think Tank� of the Government-a directional and policy dynamo. NITI Aayog will provide Governments at the central and state levels with relevant strategic and technical advice across the spectrum of key elements of policy, this includes matters of national and inter... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2015-01-04 01:41:19
Planning Commission in June 2012 constituted an Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan to suggest a methodology for measurement of poverty. It was set up as a knee-jerk reaction to the adverse publicity generated by its predecessor, the Tendulkar Expert Committee which proposed a new methodology for poverty measurement that yielded a set of rural and urban poverty lines that was deemed to be too low.
Main re... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-10-29 01:07:14
Khagendra Kumar, Chief Editor
In Chhatha Puja, perhaps Bihar gets its best identity. It is very difficult to find evidences for faith and at the same time it is also impossible ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-10-07 08:54:03
Bihar is a state where social change is very slow. Once Kerala society was highly discriminatory but series of movements like prolonged peasants' movement, Sri Narayan Guru Movement, Teachers' Movement, Library Movement etc. changed the face of the society. Now Kerala society is supposed to be the most progressive among Indian states. Bihar has a poor history of reform movements. In spite of some notable changes on infrastructural and ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-10-02 16:11:15
- Post by Politic India on 2014-09-30 16:35:52
Ashutosh Kumar
A day after India's triumphant Mars mission and hours before he left for his first vi... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-06-21 01:17:59
- Post by Politic India on 2014-05-31 21:49:33
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="120"] Ashutosh Kumar
Dy Director, CCI, Ne... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-05-17 10:31:41
- Post by Politic India on 2014-05-15 22:18:11
Khagendra Kumar,
chief Editor
General Election 2014 is over and results will be declared tomorrow. Results of all the exi... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-05-12 08:26:55
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- Post by Politic India on 2014-03-06 02:06:06
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Ashutosh Kumar, M.A. (Eco) (JNU), Dy Director, CCI, New Delhi
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- Post by Politic India on 2014-02-24 23:25:00
Ashutosh Kumar
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- Post by Politic India on 2014-02-13 23:40:16
Ashutosh Kumar, M.A. Economics (JNU)
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- Post by Politic India on 2014-02-13 23:07:45
India has experienced a rapid growth after the economic reforms of 1991. This rapid growth has been resulted in notable economic achievements and has brought many benefits to India. Although the economic growth and poverty reduction have been impressive, it has been caused environment degradation and growing scarcity of natural resources. Economic liberalization has accounted for a substantial impact on the ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-02-07 21:57:06
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Khagendra Kumar, Chief Editor
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- Post by Politic India on 2014-02-05 23:16:50
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Ashutosh kumar is M.A. & M.Phil. in Economics from JNU. Dy Director, CCI, New Delhi
Dandekar and... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2014-01-01 14:54:59
- Post by Politic India on 2013-12-25 02:50:00
ABSTRACT
The present article explores the relationship between globalization and higher education in India. Although Indian higher education has quantitatively grown several times since independence but current level of GER is still lower than world average. There is also a wide gender and social disparity. GER of women, SC, ST and other marginal groups is far below the national average. The Indi... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2013-11-14 10:40:53
People's movements are basically social actions conditioned by people's own responses. The frame of reference originated from people's own responses may be educational, environmental or ecological and the context may be legal, social or political. In all the cases protestors challenge existing mode of living, in totality or in part, and want replace it by some alternative mode. India faced a series of ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2013-11-14 08:55:16
Naresh Prasad Bhokta & Munesh Kumar
There is an intricate relationship between education and society. Education functions in a society and for a society. At the same time, the education system itself is moulded by the existing social structure. Education as an important social institution interacts with other socio-political institutions like family, kinship, religious and political organization. In this ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2013-11-12 18:06:35
INTRODUCTION
Kerala as a state within the union of India, came into being on 1st November 1956 as a result of the States Reorganization Act (1956). Soon after the formation of the state, Kerala elected a communist government. It became the first state or province within a federated country anywhere to elect a communist government. ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2013-10-10 22:06:39
Laxampur Bathe was not an ordinary incident. The country was shocked when 59 dalits including 26 women and 15 children of Laxampur bathe village, 90 km from Patna in Arwal district were shot dead by about 100 armed gunmen on the night of 1st December 1997 while they were sleeping. The massacre was called national shame by then president of India K.R. Narayanan. The Patna high court acquitted all the 26 persons convicted ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2013-10-06 16:51:33
CONVICTION OF LALOO: JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
It would have been in the interest of jurisprudence if the judgment in fodder scam case 20A/96 that prolonged for long 17 years be pronounced after Durga Puja vacation or few days before. Timing of the judgment in fodder scam case 20A/96 by special Ranchi CBI court deprived shri Laloo Prasad from filing bail petition and appeal in the higher court of law i... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2013-10-02 23:56:08
INTRODUCTION
India has now become a major player in the global knowledge economy. A large pool of qualified manpower that is fed by its higher education system has played significant role in it. It is now widely accepted that higher education has been critical to India's emergence in the global knowledge econ... read more
- Post by Politic India on 2013-10-02 23:15:30
ILL-CONCEIVED EFFORTS IN REFORMING SCHOOL AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN BIHAR
The Report of the National Education Commission (1964-66) states: The destiny of India is now being shaped in her classrooms. This, we believe is no more rhetoric. But during last fifty years the statement proved to be rhetoric. Instead of getting empowered, Indian classrooms are losin... read more
