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Higher Education reforms: Challenges and Prospects
Manish Kumar- The Invisible hand
The Invisible Hand
by Manish Kumar
Higher Education reforms: Challenges and Prospects
There is an urgent need to carry out reforms in the higher education sector. India’s gross enrollment ratio at 12.4 percent is well below the world average of 23.2 percent and the developed countries average of 54 percent. There are 370 districts in the country with GER less than the national average!
We never fail to mention that we had only twenty universities and five hundred colleges at the time of independence and now we have around 378 universities and 18000 colleges....
Its touch and go at Ground Zero in Gopalganj
Floods are a major threat to development in North Bihar
Team BihardaysPatna: Lakhs of lives are at risk in Bihar as the River Gandak continued its alarming rise through Saturday too. The river swelled further with a discharge of 2.12 lakh cusecs of water from the hilly rivers of Nepal has made the river flow dangerously, straining at its embankments.
Abdul Hamid, who heads a flood-fighting force set up by the state water resources department, expressed his worry. Hamids force has been set up to provide technical help to flood-fighting work at Simaria village in Gopalganj district, 160...
IAS officers set great example in Gopalganj
From Effkay
Against the backdrop of incessant rain in Gopalganj district, and the imminent danger of the River Gandak smashing through a weak spot in the embankment near Semaria village, Thursday brought a rare sight indeed, to see the sahebs, the IAS officers working like labourers to plug the flow of the angry Gandak.
Thenightmares of the 2008 Kosi floods haven’t faded away, and the situation was grim. The presence of these government sahebs gave the panicky villagers a sense of faith and stability.
On Friday, the breach was successfully repaired, and the wary villagers...
Embankments’ breach imminent, Flood threatens North Bihar
Gandak river is threatening to breach the embankments between Batardah and Salehpur in Barauli block of Gopalganj District. Embankment is left only by three feet. This has been caused by sudden shift of Gandak river as there was no permament embarkment at Simaria, the present embankment is nothing but a pile of sand & mud. Now there is nothing that can be done and as far as river is concerned the levels & the current are rising every moment.According to Water Resouurce Department (WRD) Prrincipal Secretary Ajoy Nayak “The breach is imminent”. Already more than...