Rajasthan’s school students are likely to read the brave story of Indian Air Force’s pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in textbooks.
Rajasthan’s Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasra proposed the same citing that Abhinandan’s school education was done in Jodhpur. He tweeted on Monday “Abhinandan’s story of bravery will be introduced in the school syllabus of Rajasthan in a bid to honour him.” He also wrote a similar Facebook post late Monday using the #AbhinandanDiwas.
Dotasra did not mention the classes where Wing Commander Abhinandan’s story will be studied.
Earlier, the education minister also proposed to add the stories of troopers died in the Pulwama attack in the syllabus. The syllabus review committee accepted the proposal. Dotasra recently constituted two committees to review the syllabus of the school textbooks of the state.
Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman emerged as a hero after shooting down a Pakistani F-16 fighter plane with his MiG 21. During this Varthman’s plane was also downed forcing him to bail out. He was captured and spent about 60 hours in Pakistan’s custody before returning home.
Profesor Dr Rajiv Dharaskar has been appointed as the Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam – An Institute of National Importance.
Earlier, Dr Dharaskar was serving as the director of Matoshri Pratishthan Group of Institutions (MPGI) Integrated Campus located at Nanded.
Dr Rajiv Dharaskar
As a director of MPGI, he was responsible for handling management of group of institutes (Engineering, Polytechnic and Management), which have 3 Principals, 7 Assistant Directors, 15 Head of the departments, over 200 staff members and 2200 students.
He also served as the Director, Disha Education Society (DIMAT – Disha Technical Campus), Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
He had completed PhD in Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Technology in 2007 from SGB Amravati University.
Post completion of his BSc in Computer Science & Applications in 1991, he completed his M Tech in computers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad.
Dr Dharaskar published/presented 370 research papers, guided 35 M Tech projects and 12 PhD scholars.
Currently, he is guiding three PhD scholars in variety of computing fields such as Digital Forensics (Mobile, Networking, Cloud, VANET, Data Mining, DataBase, Image Processing) and Human Computer Interaction (Mobile, Hand Guesture, Sign Language).
Dr Dharaskar also has written various books for improving Indian education system and also for academics.
“The portal SWAYAM offers 2,000 courses and like ATM, this is ATL ‘Anytime Learning’ for everyone for free”, said Uninon Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar.
The minister described about various initiatives taken by the Central Government to improve the Indian education ecosystem in his address during convocation at D Y Patil University in Navi Mumbai on Sunday.
Describing about the importance of education for current Government, Javadekar said, “The government expenditure on education has gone up from 3.8 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014 to 4.6 per cent during the NDA rule.”
“It is our priority that 6 per cent of GDP should be allotted to education…While total expenditure by central and state governments on education was 3.8 per cent of GDP in 2014, it has increased to 4.6 per cent now. This indicates that we are progressing towards 6 per cent,” he said.
He also outlined the initiatives taken by the government to expand educational infrastructure in the country adding, “Educational infrastructure too is being expanded and reformed.”
“We are making continuous efforts to improve educational facilities….Seven new IITs, seven new IIMs, two new NITs (National Institutes of Technology), three central universities and around 125 Kendriya Vidyalayas have been started,” Javadekar said.
The Union minister also said that the NDA government took a “historic decision of introducing graded autonomy, while ensuring quality education”.
Speaking on how a “new India is emerging” under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he told graduating students of the university, “We need to take a decision to live for society, this is necessary for a new India which is free of corruption, uncleanliness, terrorism, poverty, communalism and casteism.”
Government of Rajasthan has assigned additional charge of Special Secretary for School & Elementary Education to IAS V Sarvana Kumar, Director, Science and Technology, Government of Rajasthan.
Before becoming the director of science and technology, Kumar was the Member Secretary of Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Jaipur.
IAS officer of 2006 batch, V Saravana Kumar also served as the chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Jaipur Smart Mission Limited (JSML).
In a recent reshuffle in the bureaucracy, the Government of Rajasthan has given additional charge of Sanskrit Education Chief Secretary to IAS Dr R Venkateswaran, Principal Secretary, School Education, Language & Library, and Panchayati Raj (Elementary Education), Government of Rajasthan.
Before joining the School Education, Language & Library, and Panchayati Raj (Elementary Education) Department, he earlier was serving as Principal Secretary, Animal husbandry, Fisheries & Gopalan Department, Government of Rajasthan.
With more than 20 years of varied experience, Venkateswaran served in departments like home, local self government department, rural development, social welfare etc under Government of Rajasthan. He was also the Mission Director for JnNURM in the State.
He was closely involved in the formulation of Rajasthan’s Industrial Policy. As the director of Small Savings Department, he was instrumental in launching of many attractive schemes for the investors and the helped the State to achieve highest ever savings.
He was awarded the JRD Tata National Health award for distinguished service in Churu district. Under his leadership the district of Jalore got the Satyen Maitra National Award for Total Literacy.
Government of Rajasthan has given an additional charge of Governing Secretary, Science & Technology, to IAS Vaibhav Galriya, Secretary Higher & Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan has been given.
As an administrative officer, Galriya served as Managing Director of Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RIICO).
In his previous assignments, Galriya held many important positions under Government of Rajasthan, such as Secretary, Rajasthan Public Service Commission; Collector Jhalawar; Deputy Secretary to Government, Finance (Tax) Department, etc.
He served as Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of Mahindra World City (Jaipur) Limited and before that as Chairman at Rajasthan Asset Management Company and also as Chairman at Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Ltd. since September 22, 2016 until December 15, 2016.
Vaibhav Galriya is an IAS officer of 1998 batch. He has Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication and Master of Technology degree in Management & Systems.
The UP Board is likely to declare the results of Class 10, 12 examinations in April last week. The time of result announcement has been declared on the last day of class 10 board examinations.
“The results of Class 10, 12 examinations will be announced in the last week of April. The board will convey the exact date and time soon,” a senior official from Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board (UPSEB) said.
The students appeared in the UP Board Exams have to visit the official websites: upresults.nic.in and upmspresults.up.nic.in to check their results.
To prevent cheating in the UP class 10 and 12 board exams, the board had taken stringent measures. “Except some incidents, the class 10, 12 examinations went smoothly under strict vigilance,” said the official.
In one of the incidents of mass copying Muzaffarnagar, the board took stringent actions, and 14 invigilators among 17 people were arrested.
The Uttar Pradesh board Class 10 examinations were concluded on Thursday, February 28, and the Class 12 examination will conclude on March 2, 2019. A total of 58,06,922 students (31,95,603 in high school and 26,11,319 in intermediate) have registered for the examination.
Last year, The UP board declared the results of its Class 10, 12 examinations on April 29, 2018 with a pass percentage of 75.16 for Class 10.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan has started the online registration process for admission to Class 1 of its schools from today, (March 1, Friday) at 8 am.
To apply, one has to visit the official website: kvsonlineadmission.in. The last day for application is March 19, 2019.
KVS will conduct the registration process for Class 2 from April 2 to April 9, 2019 and for class 11, the application process will begin immediately after the announcement of Class 10 result.
The list of provisionally selected candidates for Class 1 will be released by KVS on March 26. Second and third list for the same will be released on April 9 and April 23, respectively.
KVS will extend the registration date in case of less number of applications, notification for which will be released on March 30 and will close on April 6. Similarly, education institutes may release the second notification. The schedule is available at kvsangathan.nic.in.
Last year, a total of 6,48,941 aspirants applied for around 1 lakh seats. Since the admission process is online, KVS had released the list on time. The list can be seen on the official website of the individual schools.
KVS admission 2019-20: Steps to apply
Step 1: Visit the official website: kvsangathan.nic.in
Step 2: On the homepage, click on the link “online registration for admission to…”
Step 3: A pop box might open, click ok
Step 4: You will be redirected to a new page
Step 5: Click on new registration
Step 6: Click on back to instructions, read carefully, Check box and click on proceed
Step 7: Start filling the form and click register
There are 1,137 Kendriya Vidalayas across the country.
Along with improving the Higher education ecosystem in telangana, the department is also taking various initiatives to bring quality of education at par with global standards. Adopting technology for smooth processes is one of the key initiatives, says Navin Mittal, Commissioner, Department of collegiate & technical education, Government of Telangana, in conversation with Sudheer Goutham of Elets News Network (ENN).
How is the department ensuring that all its processes turn paperless yet effective?
Navin Mittal, Commissioner, Department of collegiate & technical education, Government of Telangana
The Department of Higher Education has undertaken various initiatives that helped the department, teachers, students, and educational institutions.
One of the initiatives is the launch of portal “Degree Online Services, Telangana” (DOST) — A common admission portal for all the Higher education institutions in the State. Any student who wants to join any course in telangana can visit the portal and register for different course options. Students are selected on merit-basis. The list is prepared as per class 12 scores. This has been a real gamechanger in Telangana, as earlier students had to visit every institute first for getting an application form, then to submit it and deposit the fee and lastly for gaining admission. Now, we have made the admission process completely paperless in a way that students belonging to Telanagana only need to enter the number of respective certificates and educational department automatically fetches the data from the respective department. The process is hassle- free. It has enabled over 2,10,000 students to take admissions in higher education institutes of Telangana.
We have also introduced concept of e-office in the commissionerate as well as in regional offices. It helped us to speed up the processes and improve communication between the State government and institutions. For example, soon after receiving a digitally signed copy from any college principal, an order is issued in that regard to the respective college online. Colleges are also allowed to check the status of their complaints or applications.
The third thing which has been done is that a public sector bank — Vijaya Bank – has come up with a fee management system. All the government educational institutions are on the platform wherein students can pay fee without any hassle at the branch of the bank or via electronic transfer, net banking, debit card, credit card, UPI payment interface etc. Cash fee collection has been stopped at all the government’s higher educational institutes.
The fourth thing which we have implemented in the technical education department and one of the universities of the State is BioMetric attendance System. in next few months we will install the system across all the government institutions in the State. It is helpful in maintaining the students’ attendance, as without students there is no meaning of education.
In terms of technology in education, what are the latest practices adopted by the Department to facilitate effective learning?
We have implemented digital evaluation system in technical education department. In the system, all the answer sheets are uploaded online and distributed to evaluators. It helps us to avoid any question without being checked. Moreover, it also has helped teachers to evaluate the answer sheets anywhere and anytime. Earlier, we used to set up camps for evaluations which we have now done away with. We are also working on development of institute Management System which will help the department in managing information of technical institutes and students.
We have also worked a lot to improve curriculum. For example, the polytechnic curriculum in the State has been completely updated from academic year 2018-19. We have made it more flexible and practical. All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has already published a model curriculum for the engineering colleges which has also been adopted in Telangana.
We have also tried to improve our grading system. We are trying to develop a relative grading system rather than an absolute grading system.
What vision inspires Telangana Government to improve education scenario in the State?
The vision of the State Government involves three things. First thing is to improve Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which is around 36 percent. Though, the GER of Telangana is nearly 10 percent higher than that of the national average, but the access of education to every student in the State is the top most priority of the government. Other than that the government has initiated various schemes for the underprivileged and economically weaker sections of the society.
The second focus area of the government is ensuring basic infrastructure in both government and private sector. A lot of focus is on maintaining the infrastructure which includes building, labs, libraries, equipments, furniture and other basic amenities.
The third thing is improving overall quality in terms of teaching and learning. The latest practices are integrated into the education system of the State to improve the quality.
What is your message for student fraternity?
Not only all of us should be ready for the industrial revolution 4.0 and the education 4.0 but we should be leaders in this. it is so because the kind of numbers which we have, there is no reason for not being a leader.
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ICFAI Group has established campuses across 16 States which includes 11 ICFAI Universities, 9 ICFAI Business Schools, 7 ICFAI Tech Schools and 6 ICFAI Law Schools. All the programmes offered in these campuses emphasise on academic rigor and differentiated curriculum that bridges the industry- academia gap.
Innovation has been the mainstay of ICFAI Group with innovation prevalent in its programmes and even in its culture. ICFAI started, ICFAI Business School (IBS) in 1995 to offer MBA Programme. Since its inception, IBS has been consistently placed among the top ranked B-Schools of India providing excellent academics and infrastructure to its students and transforming them into future leaders. Another example that is a testimony to the culture of innovation is the introduction of Case Study Methodology at IBS. The Case Research Centre at IBS has become a centre of excellence and has won several accolades across the world.
Outstanding Achievements by the Case Research Centre
ICFAI is the third largest contributor of cases, next only to Harvard and INSEAD B-Schools
In 2015, 7 percent of The Case Centre’s 150 Best Selling Cases were from ICFAI
ICFAI cases were taught in more than 870 B-Schools across 75 countries in the world
In 2015, the sales of ICFAI cases made up 7.5 percent of the Case Centre’s sales
ICFAI currently contributes 6,000 cases to the Case Cen- tre, UK which forms more than 10 percent of their total collection of 57,318 cases
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Founder’s profile:
N J Yasaswy (1950-2011), founder of the ICFAI Group of educational institutions and a pioneer in promoting higher education in the private sector, had a brilliant academic career: B.Com (Andhra University 1969 – First Rank), CA Inter (May 1971– First Rank), CA Final (May 1973 – First Rank), ICWA Inter (July 1970 – First Rank) and ICWA Final (July 1972 – First Rank). He was the recipient of the Basu Foundation Award for the Best Student of the Year from both – The Insti- tute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (in 1972) and The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (in 1973). He stood for professional management, excellence in the quality of education offered in the ICFAI institutions, and absolute discipline. He was charismatic, a great teacher, an in- stitution builder, a visionary and a genius who was years ahead of his time. His vision will continue to guide ICFAI forever.
The programmes are designed such that the professionals passing out of the institution have the ability to take risks, make decisions and own the work. Apart from this, students also inculcate research and analytical orientation because of institutional strengths in research and case methodology. Holistically, the student undergoes a transformative change. The alumni of ICFAI Group are working in renowned companies world-wide. Collectively, ICFAI Group alumni contribute significantly to the growth story of India.
Awards
Great Place to Study Certification 2017-18 – GPTS Research Institute
Thought Leadership Award 2017 for ICFAI Case Research Center – Skill Tree Knowledge Consortium
Best Higher Education Brand for Innovation in Curriculum – 2017 – Business World Education Award
Iconic University of India 2017-18. Awarded by World’s Greatest Brands and Leaders Asia and GCC. – URS, Asia One & PwC.
