Punjab to introduce e-text books for school children

October 6th, 2009 LUDHIANA - Govind Godhan, a social organization in Punjab, has taken up the task of educating beggars and making them self-reliant. Many poor families, who are unable to send their children to school, make them work as street beggars, an act which even the Government and several NGOs have failed to tackle.

September 18th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Education in government-run-schools of Punjab has been found to be lacking the kind of quality and standard expected of it. A survey conducted under 'Padho Punjab' programme revealed that most of the primary kids in the State could not read or write.

September 14th, 2009 UN tries to boost Zimbabwe's collapsed schoolsHARARE, Zimbabwe — The U.N. children's fund says the collapse of Zimbabwe's schooling system means up to 10 pupils are sharing one text book, while some rural schools have no books at all.

September 7th, 2009 According to the sources, the White House is all set to release the text of the back-to school speech of the US President Barack Obama that has caused quite a stir and has triggered a wide array of speculations and controversies among a certain section of parents and pundits who are conservative to the core and by nature. The text of the 18 minute long speech that was delivered by the US president himself will be posted on the Website so that the people of the nation can go through the entire text before it is transmitted through the Internet to the school children.

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former President A P J Abdul Kalam has said that reading 'quality books' would lead to a 'knowledge revolution' in India, and to facilitate that one should spend at least an hour daily for reading books. Addressing a book festival organised by the 'Makkal Sindhanai Peravai' (People's Thinkers Forum) on Tuesday, he urged parents to start a mini library in every house so that the great habit of reading can be inculcated in children.

June 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Educationists and parents in Chandigarh and Punjab welcomed the suggestion of Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday to scrap the Class 10 board examination. D.S. Bedi, director of Shivalik group of schools which has institutions in Chandigarh as well as various towns in Punjab, told IANS: "If this proposal materialises, it would be a blessing for both children and their parents.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With an aim to reform the examination system and de-traumatise the education, the government is planning to make the Class 10 exams "optional", Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday. We will reform the examination system and Class 10 examination will be optional, Sibal told reporters here while outlining his 100-day plans for the education sector.

June 9th, 2009 JALANDHAR - Special summer camps have been set up for kids in various Gurdwaras in different parts of Punjab, where they are being taught about the essence of Sikhism. Summer camp curriculum includes, imparting proper guidelines to recite Gurubani from the holy scriptures.

June 9th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Four children, who were on a one-day school trip to river Beas in Punjab, drowned Tuesday, police said. The incident took place when Nidhi, a Class 10 student of Star Public School, lost her balance and fell into the river.

May 20th, 2009 JALANDHAR - At least six children and the driver of a school bus were killed Wednesday morning when their vehicle collided with a passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Punjab's Jalandhar district. While three students and the driver died on the spot, three critically injured children were declared brought dead at a hospital in Ludhiana city.

May 20th, 2009 JALANDHAR - At least four people have been killed, including three school children, and several others injured when a school van collided with the Ferozepur-Bathinda Express at a railway crossing at Gumtala village in Jalandhar on Wednesday morning. According to police, three students and the driver of the van were killed on the spot.

May 20th, 2009 MUSSOORIE - Ruskin Bond, a stalwart of children's literature, celebrated his 75th birthday with children here on Tuesday. The famed writer who wrote more than hundred short stories, essays, novels in his writing career of forty years, chose a bookstore to celebrate his platinum birthday.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Owing to the growing number of human rights abuses, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is planning to introduce human rights as an optional subject in schools. Savita Sinha, head of NCERT's department of education in social sciences and humanities, said Friday that they were working on including the subject in Class 11 and 12.

February 1st, 2009 FEROZEPUR - At least three children were killed and 13 injured Monday when their school van collided with a railway engine at an unmanned crossing in this border district of Punjab. The injured have been rushed to the civil hospital in Ferozepur, 300 km from the state capital Chandigarh.

January 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi government has told the Delhi High Court that it is ready to reimburse the cost of books and uniforms to students from the economically weaker sections (EWS) and has begun the process. Submitting an affidavit to the division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjiv Khanna Wednesday, the city government agreed to reimburse the cost of Rs.500 for uniforms and books ranging from Rs.80 to Rs.350 to every child studying in schools of the delhi government.