The education for the poor section will become so expensive in Ladakh that many will succumb to the system, and the number of left-out students may increase. Neither am I a conspiracy theorist, nor am I a soothsayer. But empirical evidence about the government in Ladakh is not a good sign for society. UDISE data 2023-24 reports that Ladakh has identified 35 zero-enrollment schools, 21 schools with teachers that have zero enrollments, and 83 schools with single teachers. Consolidating all the...
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Temporary Recruitment Trend: Silencing the Productive Age of Ladakhi Youths
The taciturn response of Ladakhi stakeholders to the arbitrary and autocratic recruitment style is beyond understanding. The state is testing the patience of the already frustrated youth. Since it was designated as a Union Territory, many jobs have been sold to private agencies through outsourcing. Additionally, the trend of temporary recruitment has intensified in recent years.
The over-emphasis and supply of temporary human resources not only hamper the quality of work production but al...
Primary Shrinking, Secondary Struggles: The Issues Facing Government Schools in Ladakh
While the whole country is buzzing about the success stories and school performance in the recent CBSE results, the Union Territory of Ladakh is experiencing the worst board exam performance, and no one is ready to talk about it. The recent haphazard switch from JKBOSE to CBSE, the centralized packaging syllabus, the abstract concepts, the language challenges, and the session examination session have all been suddenly imposed on the schooling system of Ladakh without considering the region’s...
Contextualising Kargil after Article-370
After the new political alteration of Ladakh, lots have been discussed, spoken about, and wrote on this topic. After analysing the whole scenario, since it becomes a Union Territory, we can avow that Ladakh is approaching a new social system. Many old-fashioned social structures may vanish or collapse soon, from the living style to the new method of earning; we are transmuting from a sustainable and self-sufficient society to a dependable and vulnerable society, where everything is at stake ...
Central University in Leh: The Heart of NEP 2020 Omitted
The New National Policy on Education 2020 is a comprehensive and historic policy that comes after the long gap of thirty-four years after the National Policy on Education 1986 and its Programme of Action 1992. It was the long-cherished dream of India to make an inclusive policy on education, which cater to the need of the diversity of our country. However, the BJP government’s announcement to establish a Central University in Leh district of Ladakh is contradicting the commitment of the newl...
The suffering of Generation-Y: Crunching between Hope and Veracity
The recent recruitments in Kargil district show that the ratio of the available post and aspirants were fretful – the situation of Leh district may not be differing. For every single post, the ratio was 1:50. For the post of 67 GLT total, 3,533 aspirants had appeared; the competition in other posts was not different. This is the picture of single district Kargil. Collectively of both the districts, the picture may be worsening. The annoying thing was that some posts were advertised in 2012 a...