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Monday, May 12, 2008

Social Science projects - IX

Why projects in Social science?

Education is a developmental process, which transforms us. It brings about a change in the mental and physical behaviour. To bring about this change, we need to introduce concepts, generalizations, issues and skills, which seem relevant to our lives.

Social Science is one of the subjects which brings all of closer to our environment, society and the geographical, social , economic and political processes . It enables us to understand the process of social change and the role that we can play towards this change.

With the onset of new millennium, we are facing many challenges. Information explosion and widespread use of information technology has given us whole lot of information and data. Therefore its necessary for us to make sense out of it. In Social Science education particularly there has been a felt need to make its learning interesting, motivating and participatory in nature. Sensing this need we have to do projects in Social Science.

Students of class IX can download the Internal assessment Project list from here

Social Science Projects IX

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Nearly 42,000 women become literate in 4 weeks

Nearly 42,000 rural women in the country with zero literacy levels have learnt to read and write in Hindi in just four weeks' time, thanks to a computer-literacy programme.

The women, who belong to the states of Delhi, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh and were illiterate, can now read and write after undergoing a computer-based literacy programme 'TARA Akshar'.

During the programme, students attend 100 minute-class a day held for six days a week.

The first 18 days are spent inculcating the sounds of letters and letter groups by the use of advanced memory techniques.

The next 12 days are spent to enhance the learner's ability to read words and sentences.

Writing is taught throughout the programme and on the 30th day, a written comprehension test is given to the students.

The programme is being funded by Department for International Development (DFID), UK under the Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) programme since the last one year.

"We now have 291 centres across Northern India, where people who do not know how to read and write are learning that in 30 days. Currently, we are targeting women whose ages range from eight to 50," said Kiran Sharma, Project Director, PACS.

Reducing Illiteracy in the Country

India has 35% of the world’s total illiterates. Even though India has been ranked 105th in the Global Monitoring Report (GMR), 2008, as compared to 99th rank in the GMR, 2007, the Education Development Index (EDI) has risen from 0.789 to 0.797. The main achievements of India, as per the GMR 2008, are high level of net enrolment in Primary education and significantly improved adult literacy and gender parity.

The following concrete steps have been taken for achieving the Millennium Development Goal pertaining to universal primary education:

I. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) aimed at achieving the objectives of universalization of elementary education amongst children in the age group of 6-14 years in a time bound manner. As a result of this programme a large number of children have been brought into the fold of elementary education and number of out of school children has come down from 320 lakh in 2001-02 to 76 lakh in 2007-08.

II. Introduction of cooked Mid-day Meal (MDM) Scheme for all children in class I-IV in Government and Government aided schools, centres under the Alternative and Innovative Education (AIE) and Education Guarantee Scheme and its extension to upper Primary level in 3479 educationally backward blocks (EBBs).

III. Levy of 2% Education Cess in order to bridge the gap between available plan resources and establish requirements to finance Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-day Meal, the two main programmes for universalization of elementary education.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri M.A.A. Fatmi in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 28th Apirl 2008.

Concessions to Handicapped Students

The Central Board of Secondary Education has provided the following concessions to physically handicapped students:-

i. Option of studying one compulsory language as against two for general candidates and option to offer other subjects in lieu of Mathematics or Science.

ii. Facility of a writer in the examination, if requested for.

iii. Additional time ranging from 30 minutes to sixty minutes provided to answer the question paper.

iv. Separate question papers in enlarged print for visually impaired candidates.

v. Alternative questions provided for the visually impaired candidates, in lieu of questions having visual inputs in Social Science and English Communicative for class X, and in History, Geography and Economics for class XII.

vi. Special seating arrangement for the conduct of the examination on the ground floor as far as possible.

vii. Physio-therapy exercises are considered as equivalent to physical education and health education course.

Answer Books of such candidates are evaluated separately.

viii. The above concessions are being extended to the candidates of all CBSE affiliated schools throughout the country.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri M.A.A. Fatmi in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

‘Education loans, a major feat of UPA Govt’

The extension of education loans has been a singular achievement of the Government under the United Progressive Alliance and the benefits have gone to the poor, agriculturists and the middle-class, said the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, here on Sunday while inaugurating the 1,327th branch of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC).

The fully computerised branch with biometric ATM and core banking solution (CBS) is OBC’s first branch in Sivaganga district.

Applauding the performance of rural students in the recent Plus Two examinations in Tamil Nadu, he said public-sector banks had in 2007-08 disbursed educational loans amounting to Rs 19,771 crore to 12,51,692 persons. The banks have started facilitating online filing of application for educational loans, and by the end of the year all banks will go online and there should be no difficulty in obtaining the loan, he said. Giving utmost importance to education, besides loans, the Government has come up with a slew of scholarship schemes for various sections, including minorities and scheduled tribes, to pursue education at the school level, polytechnics and ITIs. To promote talent in science and industry, scholarships will be offered under a scheme called ‘Inspire’, he added.