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Bihar Scraps 75% Attendance Rule For Students To Receive Financial Benefits
With this change, all students enrolled in government schools-estimated at 1.8 crore annually-will receive the benefits, regardless of attendance.
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Video: Child Weeps As School Bus Stuck In Bihar 'Agnipath' Protest
One of the children can be seen weeping and trying to wipe his tears as the person shooting the video repeatedly asks whether he is scared, and what's scaring him.
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Sanitary Napkins Provided To Boys In Bihar School
Nitish Kumar government's well intentioned scheme to provide free sanitary pads to adolescent girls enrolled in government schools seems to have gained un-intentioned male beneficiaries
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Bihar School Exam Board To Modify Class 12 Marking Scheme From 2021; Marks In Extra Subjects To Be Adjusted
BSEB has announced that marks from additional subjects will be adjusted in place of compulsory subjects in case a student fails to score the minimum qualifying marks in those subjects.
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UP Budget 2019: Uttar Pradesh Announces Medical Varsity In Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Name
UP budget 2019: The Uttar Pradesh government today presented a Rs. 4.79 lakh crore budget for 2019-20, and announced populist schemes ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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Nitish Kumar's Nickname Is 'Munna': 10 Facts About Bihar Chief Minister On His Birthday
Born on March 1, 1951 at Kalyan Bigha village in Nalanda, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is known simplicity and honesty. During his tenure as the chief minister of Bihar, the JD-U stalwart has been credited with re-laying roads that had virtually ceased to exist, building of bridges, completing long-delayed infrastructure projects, appointing t...
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Bihar Board: Exam Pattern Changes; 50 Per Cent Questions To Be Objective In 2018
Bihar School Education Board (BSEB) has released the revised exam pattern and marking scheme for the Senior Secondary Annual and Supplementary exam. The new exam pattern now includes multiple choice type questions.
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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Gets Into Populist Mode, Announces Sops For All
In a populist move, the Nitish Kumar led Bihar government has decided to relax the required percentage of attendance for students to avail government schemes. Till now students in government schools needed to have a minimum of 75 per cent attendance in order to be eligible for schemes like free uniform, scholarship and bicycles.
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20 Bihar School Children Fall Ill After Mid-Day Meal
At least 20 children fell ill on Tuesday after having their mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar's Bhojpur district, officials said.
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A month after Bihar mid-day meal tragedy, village still under trauma, grief
A month after 23 children in a small Bihar village were literally served death on their plates, the trauma still lingers. The Chhapra mid-day meal tragedy became a flashpoint of an intense debate on the state of school mid-day meals, a scheme run across the country.
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Teachers should teach, not supervise cooking of meals, says court
The duty of school teachers and principals is to teach students and not to supervise cooking of meals, the Allahabad High Court has observed, more than a week after a poisonous lunch served in Bihar killed 23 children.
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Millions of Bihar school children go without mid-day meal
A week after the mid-day meal tragedy in which 23 children lost their lives in Bihar, nearly 3,00,000 teachers across the state began their boycott of the scheme today. As a result, millions of school children were not served their mid-day meal in schools.
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Nitish vs BJP: Relentless politics over the death of 23 children
Exactly a week after 23 children, some as young as four, died from a poisoned school lunch, political parties remain committed to inscribing the tragedy with vicious agendas. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior ministers have found a conspiracy mantra and are sticking to it. They insist that that the food that was served as part of th...
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21 children dead in Bihar after eating mid-day meal, protests erupt
21 children are now dead after eating a free mid-day meal at their school in Bihar's Chhapra district, many of them below ten years of age. More than 30 others are in hospital.
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Nitish's Bicycle Scheme: Neighbour's Envy, Owner's Pride
The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle. Two years later, she is about to graduate from high school and wants to be a teacher.
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Bihar Scraps 75% Attendance Rule For Students To Receive Financial Benefits
With this change, all students enrolled in government schools-estimated at 1.8 crore annually-will receive the benefits, regardless of attendance.
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Video: Child Weeps As School Bus Stuck In Bihar 'Agnipath' Protest
One of the children can be seen weeping and trying to wipe his tears as the person shooting the video repeatedly asks whether he is scared, and what's scaring him.
-
Sanitary Napkins Provided To Boys In Bihar School
Nitish Kumar government's well intentioned scheme to provide free sanitary pads to adolescent girls enrolled in government schools seems to have gained un-intentioned male beneficiaries
-
Bihar School Exam Board To Modify Class 12 Marking Scheme From 2021; Marks In Extra Subjects To Be Adjusted
BSEB has announced that marks from additional subjects will be adjusted in place of compulsory subjects in case a student fails to score the minimum qualifying marks in those subjects.
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UP Budget 2019: Uttar Pradesh Announces Medical Varsity In Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Name
UP budget 2019: The Uttar Pradesh government today presented a Rs. 4.79 lakh crore budget for 2019-20, and announced populist schemes ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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Nitish Kumar's Nickname Is 'Munna': 10 Facts About Bihar Chief Minister On His Birthday
Born on March 1, 1951 at Kalyan Bigha village in Nalanda, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is known simplicity and honesty. During his tenure as the chief minister of Bihar, the JD-U stalwart has been credited with re-laying roads that had virtually ceased to exist, building of bridges, completing long-delayed infrastructure projects, appointing t...
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Bihar Board: Exam Pattern Changes; 50 Per Cent Questions To Be Objective In 2018
Bihar School Education Board (BSEB) has released the revised exam pattern and marking scheme for the Senior Secondary Annual and Supplementary exam. The new exam pattern now includes multiple choice type questions.
-
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Gets Into Populist Mode, Announces Sops For All
In a populist move, the Nitish Kumar led Bihar government has decided to relax the required percentage of attendance for students to avail government schemes. Till now students in government schools needed to have a minimum of 75 per cent attendance in order to be eligible for schemes like free uniform, scholarship and bicycles.
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20 Bihar School Children Fall Ill After Mid-Day Meal
At least 20 children fell ill on Tuesday after having their mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar's Bhojpur district, officials said.
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A month after Bihar mid-day meal tragedy, village still under trauma, grief
A month after 23 children in a small Bihar village were literally served death on their plates, the trauma still lingers. The Chhapra mid-day meal tragedy became a flashpoint of an intense debate on the state of school mid-day meals, a scheme run across the country.
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Teachers should teach, not supervise cooking of meals, says court
The duty of school teachers and principals is to teach students and not to supervise cooking of meals, the Allahabad High Court has observed, more than a week after a poisonous lunch served in Bihar killed 23 children.
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Millions of Bihar school children go without mid-day meal
A week after the mid-day meal tragedy in which 23 children lost their lives in Bihar, nearly 3,00,000 teachers across the state began their boycott of the scheme today. As a result, millions of school children were not served their mid-day meal in schools.
-
Nitish vs BJP: Relentless politics over the death of 23 children
Exactly a week after 23 children, some as young as four, died from a poisoned school lunch, political parties remain committed to inscribing the tragedy with vicious agendas. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior ministers have found a conspiracy mantra and are sticking to it. They insist that that the food that was served as part of th...
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21 children dead in Bihar after eating mid-day meal, protests erupt
21 children are now dead after eating a free mid-day meal at their school in Bihar's Chhapra district, many of them below ten years of age. More than 30 others are in hospital.
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Nitish's Bicycle Scheme: Neighbour's Envy, Owner's Pride
The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle. Two years later, she is about to graduate from high school and wants to be a teacher.
