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                 12 UNINTERRUPTED                                                            EDUCATION NEWS
               RACKETS DESTROYING                                                                  Delhi: FYUP
                 INDIAN EDUCATION                                                                  resurrected

                 In 2004, when EW was                                                             Maharashtra:
               a mere five years of age,                                                  Deepening politicisation
              we featured a cover story
              titled ‘Dirty Dozen Corrupt                                                           Karnataka:
                  Practices Destroying                                                         Headscarves row
              Indian Education’. Almost
                 two decades later, not                                                     West Bengal: Curious
                only are the dirty dozen                                                            reluctance
                   corrupt practices of
                  the early millennium                                                         Tamil Nadu: Exam
              omnipresent, several new                                                      cancellation demand
               ones have been added to
                             the list

                                              26      AFTER THE PANDEMIC: SHAPING A
                                                      NEW ROADMAP

                                                      There’s no indication yet that a com-
                                                      mittee will assess the different types of
                                                      adverse impacts the pandemic has made
                                                      on institutions, parents and children. Such
             54                                       shape a roadmap — Dr. Krishna Kumar
                                                      an inquiry must constitute the first step to


             DECLARE 2021-22 ZERO                              UNION BUDGET 2022-23: OPTICAL
             ACADEMIC YEAR                                     ILLUSION                                 33
                                                               With some belt-tightening, resources can be
             India’s prolonged 82 weeks                        found for substantial investment in digital
             lockdown of schools from                          technologies and other interventions which
             pre-primary onward is                             would improve children’s learning outcomes
             unprecedented in history. Even                    — Geeta Kingdon
             during the Spanish flu of 1918-
             20 which took a toll of 18 million
             lives, schools did not shut              44                      IN THIS ISSUE
             down for more than 20 weeks.
             Extraordinary challenges                          Editorial           10  Special Essay                                             33
             require extraordinary response
                                                     PEOPLE                            Cover Story       34
                                              K. Satyanarayana  Mailbox           12
                                                   Nitesh Jain  Education  News   14   People             44
             28                                Mayank Batheja  Education  Notes   22   International News   48
                                                 Shveta Raina

             MILLENNIUM NATIONAL           Bindu Subramaniam   Education Briefs                                    24  Teacher-2-Teacher  52
             SCHOOL, PUNE                                                              Special Report     54
                                                               Expert Comment     26
             Promoted in 1999, this                                                    Pictorial Essay    61
             CBSE-affiliated school has                        Institution Profile  28
             acquired a good reputation                                                Books              62
             for providing holistic ICT-                       Young Achievers    32
             enabled education rooted in                                               Postscript         66
             Indian values


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