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  • US to lift ban on DRDO, ISRO.

    EXPORT LICENCE ISSUE TO BE SOLVED
    The Washington, Jan. 14: The US, which imposed curbs on trade with defence entities like Indian Space Research Organisation and Defence Research and Development Organisation, following India’s nuclear tests in 1998, has set in motion regulatory changes to lift the ban soon, thus fulfilling a commitment made by the President, Mr Barack Obama.

    A formal notification to lift the ban by the US department of commerce for this purpose is in an advanced stage, top US officials said.

    “These regulatory changes will begin the transformation of the bilateral export control policies to realise the full potential of the strategic partnership between our two countries,” said Mr Eric Hirschhorn, under secretary for industry
    and security, US department of commerce.

    But he did not give any timeline for the removal of restrictions, which is eagerly awaited by India.

    However, the official sources said a formal notification in this regard could well be issued before the scheduled India visit of the commerce secretary, Mr Gary Locke, from February 6-11.

    “The department of commerce is working quickly to publish a regulation that will remove Indian space and defence-related entities from the Entity List and enact other India-specific export control changes,” a senior US official said.

    They clarified these notifications would be India specific. “We have a separate track on these issues in partnership with India,” a top official said.

    Source : DC

  • BIHAR MAKES SIGNIFICANT ALL-ROUND PROGRESS School education quality has declined, says report.

    The annual State of Jan. 14: The annual State of Education Report 2010, has revealed a decline in children’s ability to do simple mathematics in rural India, with only 35.9 per cent in Class V able to solve easy division problems last year as against 38 per cent in 2009.

    Released by the Vice-President, Mr Hamid Ansari, on Friday, the report has also pointed out that as against 69.3 per cent in 2009, only 65.8 per cent of Class I students could recognise numbers from 1 to 9 in 2010, a decline of about four per cent.

    The report further revealed that only 36.5 per cent of the
    children in Class III could solve two digit subtraction problems in the survey carried out last year as against 39 per cent a year before.

    The report praised Punjab, Kerala and Bihar for bucking the national trend.

    As against 43.5 per cent of students of class V in 2008, more than 69 per cent could do divisions in 2010, it said and talked about other positive trends at the elementary level there.

    The report found that 96.5 per cent of children in 6 to 14 age group in rural India are enrolled in schools, of whom 71.1 per cent are enrolled in government schools and 24.3 in private schools.

    Making a special reference to Bihar, the report said it
    has made good progress in the enrollment figure where the percentage of out of school girls and boys in all age groups has been declining steadily since 2005.

    “In 2006, 12.3 per cent of boys and 17.6 per cent of girls were out of schools “in 11-14 age group. By 2010, these number had declined to 4.4 per cent for boys and 4.6 per cent for girls,” it said. However, the percentage of out of school girls is still high in Rajasthan (12.1 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (9.7 per cent) which remained largely unchanged since last year.

    For rural India as a whole, attendance showed no change between 2007-10, which remained at 73 per cent in this period.

    Source: DC

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