Deemed Universities: Reformed education?
Sunday, 21 February 2010 03:10
Recent news about abolishing deemed universities have created a new debate on higher education in India. The human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal has recently said that, as per a policy decision all the deemed universities will finally have to go. He further said that the concept of deemed universities from the country will go in the near future as part of the reform process as Government is putting in place the required legislations to do exactly that.
Roads or killing fields?
By Vijay D'Souza, UK [ Published Date: January 26, 2010 Mangalorean.com ]
According to the official figures by International Road Federation, 479, 219 road accidents killed 114, 444 and injured 513, 340 people in India in the year 2007. As per the reports disclosed by the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways, in 2006 India has overtaken China to top the road accidents. India has been reported to record over 100, 000 deaths every year ever since. Worryingly for India while China has been bringing down its road accident figures by an annual average of 10.8 per cent, India's figures are getting worse. Reports suggest that, these figures translated into one road accident every minute and one road accident death every five minutes for India. As per year 2000 prices, this amounted to a loss of Rs. 55,000 core every year - almost 3% of the GDP (gross domestic product, basic measure of a country's overall economic output). Staggering statistics may be, however, surely not so shocking for an Indian citizen.
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