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  • 25 Aug
    2016
    CBPS has developed a report on the Status of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Karantaka with support of UNICEF Hyderabad office (UNICEF Office Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana). CBPS with UNICEF Hyderabad office will be releasing the report and also organising a panel discussion on Sustainable Development Goals on 26th August 2016. The even is titled 'Global Development Goals - Status and Challenges in Karnataka'. The panelists are Dr. Shobha Raghuram, Ms. Zeenat Niazi, Ms. Uma Mahadevan, Dr. Rajneesh Goel and Ms. Ruth Lascano Leano. It is being held at Hotel Chancery Pav...
  • 18 Aug
    2016
    CBPS conducted a half-day Advisory Committee Meeting on ‘Expenditure tracking of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme and development of an alternative methodology to estimate unit cost in Karnataka’. It was held on 17 August 2016 in  Hotel Pai Viceroy, Bangalore. The meeting was attended by the Advisoy Committee members, officials from UNICEF and an official from the Government of Karnataka. The CBPS team presented the findings from their ‘Quality of ICDS services survey’, and ‘Budget and expenditure analysis of the ICDS programme in Karnataka’. This was followe...
  • 08 Aug
    2016
    CBPS will be organizing a panel discussion on 'Examining the Process and Impact of Mahila Samakhya on Women Empowerment' at the Eleventh International Conference on Public Policy and Management, hosted by the Centre for Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (http://www.iimb.ernet.in/xi-aicppm-home) on 9 August 2016.  The team will present preliminary findings from their study on the impact of Mahila Samakhya (MS) in Karnataka and Bihar, using a mixed-methods approach. Three papers will be presented during the panel discussion: The first paper is being presente...
  • 08 Aug
    2016
    CBPS conducted a half-day consultation meeting on 'Expenditure tracking of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme and development of an alternative methodology to estimate unit cost in Karnataka'. It was held on 5 August 2016 in  Hotel Pai Viceroy, Bangalore. The consultation was attended by civil society organisations and research institutes from Bangalore and Hyderabad. The CBPS team presented the findings from their 'Quality of ICDS services survey', and 'Budget and expenditure analysis of the ICDS programme in Karnataka'. This was followed by a discussion on ways to reconcept...
  • 01 Aug
    2016
    Niveditha Menon will be speaking on 5 August 2016 on We Must Risk Delight : What the stories of Mahila Samakhya tell us at Fields of View, Bangalore.  She will talk about how the power of storytelling is infused in the research of Mahila Samakhya, and how ordinary observations are made extraordinary with the mere act of self-reflection. In essence, she will be telling the story of Mahila Samakhya through the stories of its women – a story of struggle, survival and stubborn hope.    
  • 21 Jul
    2016
    Maithreyi has co-authored a paper along with researchers from  Pennsylvania State University, Georgia State University, and Indiana University Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC), USA, and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. The paper titled "Ironies of democracy: Purposes of education and the construction of citizens in Sweden, India and the United States" looks at the national curricular frameworks of the three countries (Sweden, India and USA) and examines the tensions that emerge as countries attempt to instill national concerns of citizenship through education, in a context of in...
  • 08 Jul
    2016
    Jyotsna Jha's interview has been featured in the first copy of Dialoging Education. This book has been published by RRCEE (Regional Resource Centre for Elementary Education, University of Delhi), putting children & teachers first and is a compilation of select interviews from the Dialoging Education series. It has been edited by Vivek Vellanki and Poonam Batra. Jyotsna's interview is based on Poverty and Education in the time of Right to Education. This book carries twelve interviews with various renowned academicians in the field namely Amman Madan, Arvind Gupta, Chayanika Shah, Dave H...
  • 30 Jun
    2016
    In the recent issue of Economic and Political Weekly, a special article titled 'Contract Teachers in India' by Tara Beteille and Vimala Ramachandran (Vol LI No 25, dated 18 June 2016) is based on a nine-state study wherein, CBPS had undertaken two of these state-level studies, Karnataka and Jharkhand. The article looks at historical context and working conditions of contract teachers across the nine sample states.
  • 27 Jun
    2016
    Jyotsna spoke on 'Data Issues related to Gender Budgeting' at ADRI Silver Jubilee Celebrations 2016-17 - International Conference on Social Statistics in India on June 26 2016 at Hotel Maurya, Patna. The Vice-President, Honorable Shri M Hamid Ansari delivered the keynote address at the inaugural session of the four-day International Conference on ‘Social Statistics in India’ as part of ADRI’s Silver Jubilee celebrations 2016-17 on 24 June 2016. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India was also a speaker among many other reputed academicians from India and other cou...
  • 20 May
    2016
    Jyotsna Jha has contributed for the special issue of the IIC Quarterly 'Education at the Crossroads'. Jyotsna also attended the launch of the same at India International Centre, New Delhi on 18 May 2016, at 6.00 p.m. The journal was edited by Apoorvanand and Omita Goyal. Dr. Karan Singh, M.P., Rajya Sabha Chairman, IIC Editorial Board released the Journal. Education at the Crossroads asks a fundamental question: What is education? It is not only about literacy and grades and rankings, nor merely about knowledge creation. A common theme that runs through the collection is the recognition tha...