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Government plans to relocate 3,000 Dalit students to private schools

Justice News | 13/03/2022 10:23 AM | Click to read full article

The government plans to relocate 3,000 bright Dalit students from government schools to select private residential schools across India each year and support their education.

Some educationists and Dalit activists said a number as small as 3,000 smelt of “tokenism”, and that the government should instead improve the quality of its own schools in general. 

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