Nilgiri
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I sincerely hope that Indian athletes win some medals at Rio for 1.3 billion people, any color, just don't let it be zero. If Vietnam and Philippine can win medals, there is no excuse for India not to win anything.
Well a pretty important tennis match is coming up later today (its been delayed). If india wins, a gold or silver is guaranteed.
I am confident that at least one of the 2 boxers remaining will pull through....and some medals should come from other places like wrestling (hasnt started yet), hockey (mens) and badminton. I dunno how much shooting is left with indian competitors but that and archery have been the let downs as far as early medals go...
Good to know the actual spending on primary education is increasing, and the execution on local level should follow through. I have read some time ago that many primary school teachers did not show up for work on regular basis. I hope Modi government can address this problem at least, and that will be a concrete improvement.
There is a new education policy that specifically focuses on the local infra, teacher training and teacher absenteeism. They are bringing a real time monitoring framework in giving each school a sort of rating system so the problem schools can be fixed. We will have to see how it is implemented this year and the next....but the fact they are actually putting some competent ministers and bureaucrats who seem to care gives me hope (just judging by the depth of the papers I read that they have released compared to the previous administration which gave targets but did not flesh out any details much less appoint competent administrators).