Nilakantan R.S.

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At a SAGES school in Lailunga, Chhattisgarh, one of many English-medium schools run by the State government. The launch of these schools has boosted overall enrolment in the State.

Make smaller States stronger

Carving out smaller States alone does not guarantee better outcomes if it is not accompanied by greater devolution of powers.

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M.G. Ramachandran, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, relaunches the midday meal scheme by serving a student at a govenrment school in Pappakurichi near Tiruchi on July 1, 1982. The mid-day meal scheme resulted in gender parity in terms of Gross Enrollment Ratio in schools which had the unintended consequence of a falling total fertility rate.

Delimitation and the arithmetic of injustice

Ravi K. Mishra’s book attempts to reframe India’s delimitation debate with a historical approach but falls short on quantitative rigour.

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