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Excerpt: EDUCATION IN INDIAIndia has an ancient tradition of education.The world’s first university was established inTashkila in 700 B.C. Indian mathematicians introduced the zero, the decimal system and themethod of multiplication. PRIMARY EDUCATION India has made huge progress in terms of increasing primary education attendance rate andexpanding literacy to approximately two thirds of the population..The National Council ofEducational Research and Training (NCERT) is the apex body for school education in India.SECONDARY EDUCATIONThe National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986, has provided for environment awarenes,science and technology education, and introduction of traditional elements such as Yoga into the Indian secondary school system.Another feature…

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Excerpt: Revitalizing secondary educationBy Sadaket MalikWith the central government lobbing its ball to the state governments for the implementation of the several schemes  for the revitalization of the system of the secondary education in the country, the schemes of the access, equity, Mahila Samakhya, and quality in the field of secondary education has lost its very essence. Basic issues of quality, equity and access to secondary education in India still unresolved besides the central legislations by the Ministry of Human Resource development Govt of India. The expert committees were formulated by the Govt. to gauge the system and suggest the measures…

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Excerpt: Deposit insured in India, if bank fails                                      – S. C. Ojha                      The depositors are secured in India if a bank fails. In India norms of banking is very strict and monitoring system is in direct control of country’s central bank Reserve Bank Of India.                      In the beginning in 1961 an act came into existence the Deposit Insurance Act, 1961 and made effective on January1, 1962.  Up to 1977 two organizations the DIC & CGCI were looking after the function of deposit insurance and credit monitoring. The present Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) came into…

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Excerpt: NEED AND CONTEXT It has been observed that the recent economic growth in the Asian cities indicate that there has been a breakdown of traditional support systems such as the family because of rapid urbanization and modernization. Moreover, a large number of people are living below the poverty line in impoverished environment in urban and rural communities. Their acute needs for housing, food, health, education, and incomes are the very forces that push adolescents to look for a means of livelihood on the streets, engage in prostitution, be hooked up with crime/drug syndicates, or become victims of…

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Excerpt: WOMENS EDUCATION INTRODUCTION Inducement of social change as one of the fundamental functions of education has been spelt out in the report of the Indian Education Commission (1964-66) thus: “The realization of the country’s aspirations involves changes in the knowledge, skills and values of the people as a whole.  If this ‘change in a grand scale’ is to be achieved without a violent revolution there is one and only instrument that can be used – Education”. EDUCATION :- Education is the nourishment of the mind with knowledge this is practiced purposefully and productively. Education disciplines the mind, sharpens the intellect and refines the spirit.  It…