Tuesday, July 10, 2012

KAS Mains Exam Date for 2011-2012 Postponed

KPSC has postponed the KAS mains Exam based on the orders of High court.
Exam was supposed to be held from August 25th 2012. But it will rescheduled and a new time table will be put on their website. So all those who are preparing have some more time for your revision...

I have deleted the Time table based on KPSC's Press note.

   

Friday, July 6, 2012

What is Sakala by Karnataka Govt?

Sakala is nothing but the Karnataka Guarantee of Services to Citizens Act 2011.

Implemented by Department of Personnel and administrative reforms Karnataka With the support of National informatics centre.

With the help of Sakala Every citizen of Karnataka has the Right to obtain the service within the stipulated time limit specified by the Provisions of the Act.

As of now 151 Subjects have been covered under this scheme included in some of the following major departments such as
Commercial Taxes, Education, Food and Civil Supplies, Health and Family Welfare, Home, Labour, Revenue , Transport and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, women and Child welfare department etc.


Provisions that if a person requests for a particular service and is not provided by the respective officer within the Stipulated time for that service, then the Officer is to provide a compensation to the applicant.
There are provisions to check the status of applications online.

Right to Education Act

Indian Govt Passed the right education Act in 2009 and it came to force from April 2010 and India is now among the 135 countries which Education is made the fundamental right of every child.

Back in 1950 also India was committed to provide free and compulsory education to all children between the age of 6 and 14 i.e the provisions of Article 45 Directive principles of state policy.

With the 86th amendment in 2002 Article 21A was amended and Education became the fundamental right.

Some of the Imp Provisions of this act are:

  • All children between the age of 6 and 14 shall have the right to free and compulsory education from a school in neighbourhood till the completion of elementary education.
  • For this purpose the child is not required to pay any kind of fees, charges or expenses which may prevent them from pursuing and completing Elementary education.
  • When a child above 6 years is not admitted to any school or though admitted and could not complete the elementary education, should be entitled to get admitted in a class appropriate to his or her age.
  • To carry out the provisions of this act the govt or local authority should establish a school within a given area within a period of 3 years from commencement of this act.
  • Both Centre and state Govts are concurrently responsible for Funds to implement the provisions of this act.

With the enforcement of this act India is moving closer to achieve the objectives of the Millennium development Goals .......

We will discuss about Millennium development goals in the next post......