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When basic education requires legal battles

As a nation, we continue to fail vast numbers of our youth by not providing the bare minimum they need to move forward — affordable, accessible education.

New Delhi: Atul Kumar, who had lost his seat in IIT Dhanbad after missing the deadline to deposit a fee, speaks to the media after the Supreme Court asked the institute to admit him to the BTech course, in New Delhi, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)
Published on Oct 15, 2024 08:40 PM IST

How the NDA is systematically denying minorities their rights

As the experience of the last three years has shown, weaknesses in policy design are being cynically exploited by the State to deny minorities their due. Even though it has nominally enhanced allocations for welfare schemes meant for minority development, the NDA has insidiously subverted them by deliberately (mis)using some of the lacunae.

The BJP has also misused an unforeseen shortcoming in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 15 -Point Programme design, which unlike the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan and Tribal Sub Plan, did not explicitly mandate that a percentage of the plan component of the budget be earmarked for minorities in proportion to their population. Consequently, the NDA has not guaranteed targeted and quantifiable interventions in the 22 centrally sponsored schemes under the PM-15PP.(Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jul 18, 2017 04:35 PM IST
ByK Raju and Pushparaj Deshpande
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