Hewlett Packard drive for school children
PC for kids, PC for all. That is, if a kid wants a PC, the entire family gets hooked to it. At least, that's how the computer major Hewlett-Packard has been looking at it.

Schools for sponsorship
Three years ago when the Madhya Pradesh government launched its DPEP, under the Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission, many were skeptical about the success of the programme. But today, the sate has educated more than 11 million people through this scheme.

Pulling strings, but not for long
The second gram panchayat elections in Rajasthan beginning tomorrow may once again underline the gross gender inequality that is extant in the socio-economic institutions and groupings in the state, despite a third of all seats in the Panchayati Raj Institutions being reserved for women.


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