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Two-day i-torney legal literacy workshop in Shivpuri trains teachers and students on RTE and POCSO Acts and legal rights in education.

Workshop addresses teacher-student relationships through a children's rights lens. Baladevan Rangaraju trains directors and teachers on laws affecting children and education.

SP Shivpuri highlights legal literacy as a 21st century necessity. Workshop attended by 100 students and teachers from across Shivpuri schools.

Two-day workshop organised with Bal Shiksha Niketan. District Women & Child Empowerment Officer and NHRC District Coordinator attend as guests.

Legal literacy workshop for students and teachers in Shivpuri covering student-teacher relationships and legal rights awareness. Featured in local Hindi press.

India ranked 59 out of 128 countries in the 2016 International Property Rights Index. India Institute co-founder Baladevan Rangaraju calls for fewer, clearer land laws to reduce conflict and improve the investment climate.

Rangaraju tells Reuters Foundation that India's complex, opaque land laws are the root cause of growing land conflict. Calls for fewer, clearer laws and greater transparency in acquisition processes. Syndicated internationally.

Op-ed by Baladevan Rangaraju documenting India Institute's Data Blind campaign tracking school closures under RTE. Argues the government has no reliable data on how many schools have been shut.

India Institute's Save Deepalaya campaign covered directly. Rangaraju quoted on the need to reform recognition criteria in the Delhi School Education Act to enable quality low-cost schools to operate.

Rangaraju explains how RTE's infrastructure mandates are destroying the low-cost private schools that serve Bihar's poorest children, and why political compulsions rather than evidence are driving the closures.

Rangaraju explains the three-stage registration process for schools and why selling a school is legally permissible. Quoted as the key education policy voice on regulatory framework questions.

French-language interview with Baladevan Rangaraju about the Bihar private school study. Covers the state's dramatic undercount of schools and why low-cost private schools are the educational reality for India's poor.

Rangaraju provides the national count of 2,692 schools shut and 17,871 at risk under RTE norms. Quoted directly on the law's failure to make teaching mandatory or link teacher pay to performance.

Out of 1,574 schools in Patna, 78% are private unaided institutions. Study reveals how low-cost private schools serve the majority of students despite being unrecognized by government.

Distance matters for girls' education. Gender segregation evident: 45% of low-cost private school students are girls compared to 58.80% in government schools.

65% of Patna households prefer private schools. 70% of parents with children in government schools would choose private if they could afford it.

RTE implementation driving migration from government to private schools. 69% of private unaided schools are low cost, 22% affordable, and only 9% high cost.

Government substantially underestimating students enrolled in private schools. Study reveals 1,574 schools versus government estimate of just 350.