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The Right to Education Act is an Indian law that provides free and compulsory education to children aged 6 to 14 years, based on Article 21A of the Constitution. It covers the rights, duties and responsibilities of the government, local authorities and parents, and sets norms and standards for school infrastructure, teacher deployment, curriculum and monitoring.
The Free School Under the Bridge is a private school in Delhi, India. It provides free-of-cost tuition to underprivileged children. Almost all the students come from the slums situated adjacent to the Yamuna river and are enrolled in nearby government-run schools. Started in 2006 by grocery shop owner Rajesh Kumar Sharma with just two children ...
SFI is a left-wing student organisation in India, formed in 1970 after a split from AISF. It has 24 state committees and leads student unions in various universities, and protests against anti-student policies and issues.
Learn about the history, structure, policies and issues of education in India, a federal, state and private system that covers different levels and types of learning. Find out the literacy rates, enrolment ratios, quality and access gaps, and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on education.
Teach For India is a non-profit founded by Shaheen Mistri in 2009 that recruits college graduates and working professionals to teach in low-income schools for two years. It also runs programs to support teachers, students, and entrepreneurs to improve education in India.
Learn about the 43 cultural and natural sites in India that are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and their historical and artistic significance. See the location, year, criteria, and description of each site, as well as the transnational and tentative sites.
India has several hundred languages, with Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam as the top 10 by number of native speakers. The web page lists all languages with more than one million speakers, their percentage of population, and their official status.
India has 28 states and 8 union territories, each with its own capital city. The web page provides a table of the administrative, legislative and judicial capitals of each state and union territory, as well as their year of establishment and former capitals.