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The study critically examines the current scenario of Elementary Education in the backdrop of promulgation of Right to Elementary Education. The study identifies the gaps in the process of evolving appropriate environment for quality elementary education covering all issues like financial requirements, governance, community participation, infrastructure, school enrolment and inclusive education programmes covering all marginalized communities. This study has ...
Based on extensive field work with a focus on children who are retrieved from carpet industry in the Bhadoi-Mirzapur belt of Uttar Pradesh and admitted to the non formal schools, the book evaluates the programme of non-formal education and the progress made by the children released from the industry, their status of health and nutrition, education, skill development, employment' orientation and training in such schools. It also provides an account of the ...
The book is relevant for the academicians, policy makers, planners, social workers and civil society alike, who are committed to the task of eradicating child abuse in India.
Globalization and Structural Adjustment Programmes not only reinforces greater integration in the world economy but is a veneration of the market as the only mediator of efficiency and growth. It has resulted in renunciation of the state responsibility towards the welfare of its citizens. Evidence shows that along with new opportunities, globalisation has led to marginalisation of the poorest and has enhanced inequality and economic insecurity among the poor. The ...