Mid-day meals in primary schools: Achievements and challenges

R Khera - Economic and political weekly, 2006 - JSTOR
The mid-day meal scheme, which has overcome many of the teething problems that
besieged it since its launch in 1995, has become an almost universal scheme, feeding …

Group-based educational inequalities in India: Have major education policy interventions been effective?

AR Varughese, I Bairagya - International Journal of Educational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite seven decades of policy thrust, group-based educational inequalities persist in
India. The tenacious social group-based stratification often proves to be a hurdle for …

Quality and inequality in Indian education: Some critical policy concerns

P Velaskar - Contemporary education dialogue, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The paper locates educational policy in a wider socio-historical and political perspective and
aims at an ideological deconstruction of policy change with a specific focus on the equality …

An overview of India's primary school education policies and outcomes 2005–2011

I Chatterjee, I Li, MC Robitaille - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
Universal school enrolment of children aged 6–14 years has been a commitment enshrined
in the Indian constitution since 1950. To attain this goal, the central government has set up a …

Assessment of school infrastructure at primary and upper primary level: A geospatial analysis

GS Bhunia, PK Shit, S Duary - 2012 - rnlk.dspaces.org
With the introduction of powerful and high-speed personal computers, proficient techniques
for infrastructure development and management have advanced, of which Geoinformatics …

Collaboration across cultures: planning and delivering professional development for inclusive education in I ndia

R Rose, M Doveston - Support for Learning, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years a number of western universities have established professional development
courses in international contexts. These have often involved tutors travelling to countries …

Affirmative action and government initiatives to improve gender equality in India: a retrospective view

DK Sahoo, U Lenka - … Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper discusses the problems of gender equality in society, the workplace and
the household in the specific context of India. It explicates the past and the present gender …

Do separate female toilets in primary and upper primary schools improve female enrollment? A case study from India

R Ray, R Datta - Children and Youth Services Review, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), initiated by the Indian Government, and
UNESCO's School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) Program started providing …

[PDF][PDF] Challenges in elementary education in India: various approaches

R Bordoloi - Journal of Education and Practice, 2011 - core.ac.uk
Education is a vital means for the potentialities of a human being to emerge in a positive
direction so that a man can live in society with full of dignity and can mould the habits, tastes …

Educational Infrastructure: A Block Level Comparative Assessment of Jorhat District, Assam

S Saikia, B Gogoi - Journal of Rural Development, 2022 - nirdprojms.in
This paper is an attempt to evaluate the present condition of the educational infrastructure of
Jorhat district of Assam, India. The term educational infrastructure covers dimensions like …