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BRIDGING GAPS AND BUILDING FUTURE EDUCATION POLICIES: UNION BUDGET 2025-2026
INTRODUCTION As we have completed the first quarter of the 21st century, the budget of 2025-26 would be the 73rd annual budget of India. The first budget was presented in 1947 and this would be the 8th consecutive time Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the budget in the Indian Parliament. While presenting the speech the…
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Tracing Supreme Court’s Suo Moto PIL on Child Pornography and Digital Rape
In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court of India addressed the complex issue of the circulation and viewing of child pornography, alongside its decision on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding the distribution of explicit content on social media. A bench led by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, with Justices J B Pardiwala…
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Can a minor become a Swami: Legality of ‘Bal Sanyasa’
Introduction The Act of ‘Sanyasa’ is a well known concept in Indian society given its spiritual history. According to vedic literature, ‘Sanyasa’ refers to the purification of everything and is performed by existing in the ‘Samsara’ or the cycle of life, death and rebirth while denouncing all worldly material possession. The idea of Sanyasa originated…
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The Concept of Inclusivity in the Indian Education System: A Crowning Irony
Written By: Adhya Tomar, First Year Student, National Law Institute University, Bhopal Introduction The recently passed New Education Policy cleared the decades old confusion regarding the definition of inclusive education by adopting the definition provided by Rights of Persons with Disability Act 2016, according to which inclusive education means as a system of education where children with and…
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EDUCATION: A developing country perspective
Written By: Prachi Chowdhary, a second-year student at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. Education can be used as a weapon to eradicate poverty. The implementation of this realisation seems to be glaringly missing in the working of the developing world. A plethora of issues plague the education system in such nations as they often…
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Dissonance in Primary Education in Public and Private Schools
Written By: Karthik Sharma, a second-year student at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal Introduction You’re reading this, a blog post in English, on a device that can browse the internet, you’re privileged. A lot of people in our country are not privileged, and this directly translates to the education that an individual receives. There…
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Distance Education during COVID-19: Importance of Technology for Boosting E-Learning in Rural India
By: Yajunshi Tyagi, a final-year student at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal “Technology cannot replace great teachers but technology in the hands of great teachers can be transformational” – George Couros The Covid-19 pandemic brought India along with the entire world to a complete standstill at the beginning of this year. Since the gradual…
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National Education Policy, 2020: Language and Learning
By: Krishnapriya K, a fourth-year student at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. On 29th July 2020 the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, rolled out the latest National Education Policy (NEP) introducing a sea of changes in the Indian educational system, thereby replacing the 1986 Policy on Education. The policy underwent…