CURRENT AFFAIRS January 2012 to January
Like us on facebook. Please visit: www.facebook.com/EXAMS.CORNER CURRENT AFFAIRS: JANUARY 2012 NATIONAL AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS State of Education Report Dutch government approves burqa ban According to the Annual Status of Education On January 28, 2012, the Dutch Report (ASER), 2011, the grim tale of India’s government approved a ban on face- school education has got grimmer, with new covering clothing, such as a burqa, a niqab, evidence surfacing to show that families a forage cap, or a full face helmet. People across rural India have been ignoring the going on the streets with one of these now guaranteed Right to Education to seek risk being fined for up to 380 euros ($499). private paid education. “It is very important that people in an open Though a whopping 96.8 per cent children society meet each other in an open way,” aged 6 to 14 years (the age group the RTE Minister of Interior Affairs Liesbeth Spies Act covers) are now enrolled in school, said after the cabinet meeting. children’s attendance is declining and so is their ability to read simple text and do In April 2011, France had introduced a simple mathematical calculations. burqa ban and become the first European country to ban people from concealing their Almost half (48.1 per cent) of India’s rural faces in public in any manner. primary school students are either attending private schools or seeking paid IMF seeks $500-billion boost to lending tuition. Across the nation, private school resources enrolment for children aged 6 to 14 years The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is rose from 18.7 per cent in 2006 to 25.6 per proposing to raise its lending capacity by cent in 2011.
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