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Shared Phones, Missed Lessons: Students Face Challenges As Delhi Schools Go Online
With Delhi schools switching over to online teaching due to high pollution levels, students living in the city's slum areas are facing significant accessibility challenges.
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67% Girls In Urban Slums Didn't Attend Online Classes During 1st Lockdown: Report
The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.
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Online Classes Keep Students In Maharashtra's Slums Far From Studies
Several parents expressed their hardship over the ordeal of not being able to provide their children with smart phones that have become an essential article of possession.
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Retired Teacher Educates Slum Children In Jammu, Teaches Through Makeshift School
Kanchan Sharma, a retired government teacher, occasionally visits slum dwellers at Maratha Basti here to conduct a two-hour open class.
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Maharashtra: Police Station Holds English Classes For Kids From Slums
The classes were started for 14 middle school students, of which six had not even attended online classes during the lockdown, an official said.
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Farmers' Group From Punjab Starts "Informal School" For Slum Children
A group of farmers from Punjab's Anandpur Sahib has started an "informal school" in a makeshift tent for local slum children at the Singhu border.
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Kolkata Children, Who Once Aspired To Be Doctors, Teacher, Now Cook-Clean For Survival
At a slum of about 40 plastic covered shacks next to the tracks of Majerhat Railway Station in Kolkata, 15-year-old Priyanka Khatoon has trouble remembering the name of her school. This isn't surprising as she hasn't been to school since March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was imposed to take on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hit By Coronavirus Crisis, Children In Guwahati Slum Trade Books For Work
Sixteen-year-old Jomsher Ali comes back to his home in Guwahati's Hafiznagar Bustee tired after a long day not from school but work. With school closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Class 7 student has become a daily wager to earn a living for himself and his ailing mother who used to work as a domestic help but has since lost the job.
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Maharashtra Teacher Creates COVID-19 Nursery Rhyme For Kids In Slums
In a bid to create awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic among children in slums, a teacher in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city created a nursery rhyme in Marathi to teach them the 20-second hand-washing routine.
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From Tea-Seller To Cow-Protector, "Unsung Heroes" Who Won Padma Awards
A tea-seller who donates his profits for the education of slum children, a doctor couple who charge Re 1 from patients and a retired IPS officer who set up a school for a Mahadalit community are among the "unsung heroes" who were given the Padma awards this year.
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Class 2 Student Allegedly Raped By Electrician In Delhi Government School
A Class 2 student was allegedly raped in a government-run school in the heart of Delhi. An electrician has been arrested, the police said on Friday.
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How Life Changed For Cuttack Tea Seller After PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat
"People have started touching my feet now," says D Prakash Rao, who has been selling tea since five decades. He runs a school where around 75 students from slums come to study.
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Son Of Welder From Mumbai Slum, Amiruddin Shah Dances Way To New York Ballet School
A teenager from a Mumbai slum is closer to fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer after being accepted into a prestigious school in New York. Amiruddin Shah, the 16-year-old son of a welder, will enrol at the American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School (JKO) in August, less than three years after taking up t...
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Journey Of 16-Year-Old: From Mumbai Slum To Top US Ballet School
A teenager from a Mumbai slum is closer to fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer after being accepted into a prestigious school in New York.
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Born In A Slum, This High School Dropout Is Now A Billionaire
The man behind South Korea's biggest initial public offering in seven years has charted an unlikely path in a country dominated by family-run conglomerates.
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Shared Phones, Missed Lessons: Students Face Challenges As Delhi Schools Go Online
With Delhi schools switching over to online teaching due to high pollution levels, students living in the city's slum areas are facing significant accessibility challenges.
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67% Girls In Urban Slums Didn't Attend Online Classes During 1st Lockdown: Report
The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.
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Online Classes Keep Students In Maharashtra's Slums Far From Studies
Several parents expressed their hardship over the ordeal of not being able to provide their children with smart phones that have become an essential article of possession.
-
Retired Teacher Educates Slum Children In Jammu, Teaches Through Makeshift School
Kanchan Sharma, a retired government teacher, occasionally visits slum dwellers at Maratha Basti here to conduct a two-hour open class.
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Maharashtra: Police Station Holds English Classes For Kids From Slums
The classes were started for 14 middle school students, of which six had not even attended online classes during the lockdown, an official said.
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Farmers' Group From Punjab Starts "Informal School" For Slum Children
A group of farmers from Punjab's Anandpur Sahib has started an "informal school" in a makeshift tent for local slum children at the Singhu border.
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Kolkata Children, Who Once Aspired To Be Doctors, Teacher, Now Cook-Clean For Survival
At a slum of about 40 plastic covered shacks next to the tracks of Majerhat Railway Station in Kolkata, 15-year-old Priyanka Khatoon has trouble remembering the name of her school. This isn't surprising as she hasn't been to school since March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was imposed to take on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hit By Coronavirus Crisis, Children In Guwahati Slum Trade Books For Work
Sixteen-year-old Jomsher Ali comes back to his home in Guwahati's Hafiznagar Bustee tired after a long day not from school but work. With school closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Class 7 student has become a daily wager to earn a living for himself and his ailing mother who used to work as a domestic help but has since lost the job.
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Maharashtra Teacher Creates COVID-19 Nursery Rhyme For Kids In Slums
In a bid to create awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic among children in slums, a teacher in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city created a nursery rhyme in Marathi to teach them the 20-second hand-washing routine.
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From Tea-Seller To Cow-Protector, "Unsung Heroes" Who Won Padma Awards
A tea-seller who donates his profits for the education of slum children, a doctor couple who charge Re 1 from patients and a retired IPS officer who set up a school for a Mahadalit community are among the "unsung heroes" who were given the Padma awards this year.
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Class 2 Student Allegedly Raped By Electrician In Delhi Government School
A Class 2 student was allegedly raped in a government-run school in the heart of Delhi. An electrician has been arrested, the police said on Friday.
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How Life Changed For Cuttack Tea Seller After PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat
"People have started touching my feet now," says D Prakash Rao, who has been selling tea since five decades. He runs a school where around 75 students from slums come to study.
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Son Of Welder From Mumbai Slum, Amiruddin Shah Dances Way To New York Ballet School
A teenager from a Mumbai slum is closer to fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer after being accepted into a prestigious school in New York. Amiruddin Shah, the 16-year-old son of a welder, will enrol at the American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School (JKO) in August, less than three years after taking up t...
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Journey Of 16-Year-Old: From Mumbai Slum To Top US Ballet School
A teenager from a Mumbai slum is closer to fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer after being accepted into a prestigious school in New York.
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Born In A Slum, This High School Dropout Is Now A Billionaire
The man behind South Korea's biggest initial public offering in seven years has charted an unlikely path in a country dominated by family-run conglomerates.
