ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846

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Politics of the Guarded Agenda of National Education Policy 2015-16

The overall framework of the new national education policy has been pitiable in addressing the aspects of structural and infrastructural discrepancy, economic inequality, social injustice, and cultural homogeneity. The extremely constrained scope and guarded nature of the framework of the new NEP is a strategy for subverting the possibility to voice fundamental issues, to legitimise and bulldoze predetermined agenda of the dominant classes and to reproduce the iniquitous social order. The consultative framework of the current official drive is problematic being imbedded within the ideas of "minimalist expansionalism" and "tapered inclusionalism."

Semester System for Undergraduates: A Critique

The semester system proposed at the undergraduate level will unsettle students from the subaltern communities and will result in a reproduction of inequalities. It seems to have been designed for the benefit of the foreign university service provider.

Community Sanitation Campaign: A Study in Haryana

This article presents a case study of a successful Community-led Total Sanitation Campaign from Bhiwani district in Haryana. Social acceptance of hygienic sanitation practices has led to enormous benefits for the village community.

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