The Government of India’s job creating projects like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Skills India’ raised expectations; but the project ‘Agnipath’ in the defence force raised an alarm. The countrywide arson was an overreaction and possibly politically motivated; but it raised some serious questio...
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think” says Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicists of all time. That is, education is not just the possession of degrees but developing new ways of learning that would leave a lasting effect on a person and on soci...
The Indian education system has been known as the biggest education system in the world catering knowledge to nearly 190 million students. The country provides education starting from pre-primary to university level and to people coming from different socio-economic backgrounds. The history of educa...
Debate on quality may roughly be associated with the period after World War I (1920s) when scientific management made a breakthrough in American industrial units to improve efficiency. Later, when consumers started demanding value for their money, work got divided to ensure that they get perfection ...
The Union Budget 22-23 has allocated more funds for education as compared to the previous year’s budgetary allocation. School education has received `63,449.37 crore and `40,810.34 crore has been allocated to higher education. Some of the main areas of the education budget are mentioned below:·&n...
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) is a premier national professional body under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GoI. It has objective of promoting, regulating and developing the profession of company secretaries in India. Devendra Deshpande, President, ICSI spoke to Kishore Kum...
The number of Covid-19 cases started dipping in March, 2022. But was it too soon to breathe a sigh of relief? The cases have started to increase again. The country is witnessing an increase in covid cases since May - adding to the number of deaths as well. Though the central government has orde...
The Public police NGO has recently launched its Kolkata chapter to establish a trustworthy and reliable connection between society and law enforcement agencies. This will ensure the creation of public awareness and also establish a strong relationship with the community in West Bengal. Public police...
Following an appeal by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, the central government statutory body the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has issued a new advisory to all states and union territories urging authorities to stop the illegal treatment of animals in the lead up to ...
FICCI’s latest quarterly survey on Manufacturing sector reveals that after experiencing revival of Indian manufacturing in the first three quarters of 2021-22, momentum of growth continued in subsequent quarters of Q-4 (Jan-Mar 2021-22) and Q-1 April-June (2022-23) and there seems to be an improve...