Andhra प्रदेश्समाचार

Andhra प्रदेश्समाचार

DAILY न्यूज़

Organize by SAMACHARA BHARATI (AP Vishwa Samvad Kendra)

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January 09
Dropout rate in primary schools up: report R. Ravikanth Reddy Transition to upper primary school records decrease

State improves its all India position from 12th to 11th in composite education development indexStudy covers 1.20 million primary and upper primary schools spread over 609 districts

HYDERABAD: Indicating that interest in school education has dipped, the dropout rate in the primary schools in the State has increased to 6.88 per cent in 2007-08 from 5.42 per cent in 2005-06. Interestingly, more number of boys seems to be disinclined to go to schools as their percentage dipped by 7.17 per cent while the girls' dropout rate is 6.58 per cent. The transition from primary to upper primary school has also decreased in the last couple of years.While it was 91.07 per cent in 2006-07 it dipped to 90.46 per cent in 2007-08 clearly reflecting that the government's priority in the education sector has moved away from school education. These figures were in the report "Elementary education in India: progress towards universal elementary education 2006-07 (2008)," released by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi few days ago. The study covered 1.20 million primary and upper primary schools spread over 609 districts across 35 States and Union Territories on all aspects of universal education. The argument that the government was promoting private players in the school education and thus moving away from its own responsibility was vindicated as its share of schools had declined to 78.97 per cent in 2007-08 from 80.09 per cent in 2006-07. Decline On the other side the share of private schools increased to 21.03 per cent from 19.91 per cent during the same period. The decline in number of schools also reflected in the student-classroom ratio. The government's inability to recruit teachers in the last five years for various reasons mirrored in the report where teachers in government schools fell to 64.23 per cent in 2007-08 from 65.52 per cent in 2006-07. On the positive front, the number of schools with computers saw an upward trend in the State with 21.11 per cent schools having computer facilities in 2007-08 compared to 18.98 per cent the previous year.The average number of classrooms also increased to 4.3 this year compared to 4.1 in 2006-07. Despite the fall in several parameters, the State had improved its all India position from 12th to 11th in the composite education development index. But this improvement is perhaps due to poor performance of other States than our own strengths. The report revealed that Kerala, Puducherry, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Chandigarh were the top five performing States in elementary education while Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam took the bottom five places. From THE HINDU, 21, January 2009 Indian Mujahideen member held

Express News Service First Published : 21 Jan 2009 03:00:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 21 Jan 2009 09:23:06 AM ISTHYDERABAD: He is 57-years-old, has two wives, eight children and is an expert in preparing timer devices used in explosives.But his other side is to brainwash innocent Muslims to take up `jihad' against the country and is himself an expert in making timer devices used in explosives. The State police arrested a suspected member of the terror outfit, Indian Mujahideen (IM), Abdul Sattar alias Abdul Salam, a native of Mallapuram in Kerala, who reportedly confessed to have prepared timer devices used in the bomb blasts at Bangalore and for the explosives that did not explode in Surat of Gujarat last year. The arrest was carried out jointly by the Counter Intelligence cell, with assistance from the Central Crime Station (CCS) and the Kerala police. According to police officials, Sattar, a radio mechanic, was reportedly involved in three bomb blasts in Kerala way back in 1995 and a few theft cases. ``Fearing arrest in those cases, Sattar fled to Rajasthan and stayed in Ajmer. There he came in contact with one person, Sufi and then came to Hyderabad and was staying in Bandlaguda," officials said. He was, however, frequently visiting Karnataka and Kerala. "He boasts of preparing a timer device within 25 minutes. We believe he was the missing link in the south Indian brigade of the outfit, IM and was the technical brain behind the various blasts," they said. In 1995, he had also conspired to kill the then Kerala Chief Minister EK Nayanar but one of them was arrested later and the plan was foiled. ``He has two wives and 8 children. One of his daughters is married to one Abdul Raheem alias Aftab, who was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir while trying to cross the Line of Control (LoC)," officials said. His links with IM came to the fore after he told the interrogators that he had met Riyaz Bhatkal, the most wanted terrorist for his role in Hyderabad blasts, several times and even provided them shelter in his house. He was also said to be in constant touch with other IM cadres. Sattar, who was wanted by the police of various states including Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala, was produced before the Magistrate tonight. From THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, 21, January 2009