Indian Education Archives

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Is the Education ministry making madarsas teach Gita, Ramayana? A fact-check

OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2021

Will students at Madarsas have to learn Gita and Ramayana from now on? A fact-check

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In 2013, NCERT had admitted they have no documents to back claims on Qutab Minar made in textbooks

OpIndia Staff - 19 January, 2021

NCERT's reply to a 2013 RTI query says they have no documents or epigraphic evidence to back the claims made regarding the Qutab Minar in their history textbook.

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Brinda Karat writes to Amit Shah seeking action against IPS officer M Nageswara Rao for pointing out vilification of Hinduism in Indian history

OpIndia Staff - 30 July, 2020

Karat alleged that pointing out vilification of Hinduism in Indian education system has "insulted heroic freedom fighter Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and other notable educationists belonging mainly to the Muslim community

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New National Education Policy 2020 unveiled by Modi government, reforms aim to make India a ‘global knowledge superpower’

OpIndia Staff - 29 July, 2020

The new national education policy 2020 introduced by Modi govt seeks to reduce the content load in the school education curriculum.

Facts, No fiction: Moving towards education vouchers for India’s public schooling system

Karan - 5 January, 2019

The critical role of education not only makes it desirable for education to be affordable, especially in India, but also requires a decent quality of the education being provided to students.

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