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Teacher's Guide IV: Exploring uses of natural indicators
Full text linkSince natural indicators are inexpensive and safe for students to handle on their own, they allow students to learn about acids and bases through their own hands-on experiences rather than through teacher-led demonstrations with synthetic indicators. Are there other ways in which natural indicators can be used in the middle-stage science classroom
Teaching-Learning in Summer Camps and Vacations
Full text linkBefore coming to a higher class, it is important for students to be able to revisit some of the experiences of their
previous year. These experiences help strengthen the foundations for the year to come. In summer camps and
summer vacations, engaging and creative teaching-learning methods can be adopted in a joyful environment
while understanding the challenges of the children’s new classes
Food for the Footloose: An Analysis of the Mukhyamantri Dal Bhat Yojana in Jharkhand
Full text linkThere is a large and growing mobile, unsettled, kitchenless population ‘out there’ which lacks food and nutrition security. Most of them belong to the unorganised sector and many of them face extremely harsh living and working conditions. This footloose population is largely excluded from most social security interventions. Many of them, particularly migrant workers, do not possess documents which enable them to purchase grain from the subsidised public distribution system. They also suffer from much higher rates of undernutrition than the settled populations. However, despite the obvious threat of hunger and food insecurity among the footloose, the subject has largely remained ignored like a blind spot in the academic and policy discourse on hunger, food security and urbanisation.
Policies to set up and operate canteens providing subsidised cooked meals offer a solution for the food and nutrition insecurity faced by the urban poor footloose. However, their precise role and performance has not been studied or understood.
This study of the Mukhyamantri Dal Bhat Yojana in Ranchi city of Jharkhand, therefore, is expected to help to understand the role of a state sponsored subsidised meal programme in addressing food insecurity of the urban footloose poor. Through a comprehensive analysis of the programme, it attempts to understand the performance of the policy as well as understand factors which drive its performance
