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Universalising of Access To Secondary Education

New Delhi, Mar 7 (UNI) Universalisation of access to and better quality of secondary education is on the cards, Parliament was told today.

A concept paper for implementing a scheme on universalisation of access to and improvement of quality of secondary education throughout the country has been prepared, Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari said in the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

She said the idea was to give access to secondary schools within a reasonable distance of habitation, improve the secondary education quality and reduce disparity.

She said such centrally-sponsored schemes as Integrated Education for Disabled Children and Strengthening of Boarding and Hostel facilities for Girl Students of Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools were being implemented at present in secondary education sector.

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Ten states yet to set up State Human Rights Commission: Jaiswal

New Delhi, Mar 7 (UNI) Despite repeated directions from the Centre and the National Human Rights Commission, as many as ten states have not constituted State Human Rights Commission, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said in a written reply that the states which have not constituted the SHRC were Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Haryana, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and Uttaranchal. He pointed out that setting of SHRC was the responsibility of the.....

SP demands Parliamentary inquiry into disproportionate assets issue

New Delhi, Mar 7 (UNI) The Samajwadi Party today accused the Congress of ''unleashing a political vendetta'' against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family, and demanded that a Committee of Parliament be constituted to look into the allegation of disproportionate assets against him. The party's Lok Sabha Floor Leader Prof Ram Gopal Yadav said during Zero Hour that the party would be happy if the inquiry was conducted by a Supreme Court judge or a Parliament Committee......

UPA should focus on rural infrastructure: RJD

New Delhi, Mar 7 (UNI) RJD member Ram Deo Bhandari today asked the UPA government to place more emphasis on building rural infrastructure in the country. Participating in the Rajya Sabha a discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President's address, he said a bulk of Indians still live in villages. But a lot of farmers are moving away from agriculture and shifting to cities for job opportunities. This is primarily due to poor incentives being given for farming,.....
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