Introduction The News Pinch footage from Prathmik Vidyalaya Belikot—a buffalo (“bhains”) grazing on the compound, passersby mistaking the site for a stable (“tabele”), classrooms rendered unusable by erosion (“chauch se kataaya” / “katār”), instruction suspended for over a month, and the headmaster’s prolonged absence—is not merely an outraging image. It is a concise, visceral demonstration […]
Introduction The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 reveals a concerning paradox in India’s digital education landscape: while 89.1% of rural teenagers aged 14-16 have smartphone access at home and 82.2% know how to use these devices, only 57% utilize them for educational purposes compared to 76% who engage with social media. This
Bihar experiences endemic caste-based violence with systematic state failure in prevention and prosecution, creating cycles of impunity that perpetuate educational exclusion, economic marginalization, and intergenerational poverty among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, demanding comprehensive judicial and administrative reforms. Statistical Magnitude and Escalating Violence Patterns Bihar ranks fourth nationally in caste-based atrocities with 6,509 cases registered
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Despite constitutional guarantees and government interventions, Dalit children in Bihar face persistent educational exclusion through institutional discrimination, economic constraints, and systemic barriers that perpetuate intergenerational poverty cycles, requiring comprehensive policy reforms and social transformation. Educational Landscape and Statistical Reality Bihar’s Scheduled Caste population confronts profound educational marginalization that defies decades of affirmative action policies. According
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Young women in rural Bihar face intersecting challenges of caste discrimination and gender restrictions, though government interventions like JEEViKA are creating new pathways for economic empowerment and social mobility. Traditional Constraints on Women’s Mobility Rural Bihar’s patriarchal structure historically confined women to domestic spheres, with caste hierarchies compounding gender-based restrictions. Traditional social norms dictated that
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