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In Mumbai, over 200 schools are unauthorised

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Akash
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Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s Education Department has released a list of 211 unauthorised schools in the city.

Schools are asked to close down immediately as they run without the permission of the Government and the municipal corporation. The education officer also appealed to parents to look for their wards’ admission in recognised schools only and not to fall for fake schools.

According to the Right to Education Act, it is mandatory to take approvals from State Government and Municipal Corporation for a school to run in a city. In case of failing to do so, there is a provision of taking penal action against the school management if these rules are ignored.

Mumbai Municipal Corporation declares the list of unauthorised schools annually. Last year, the education department had declared 231 schools unauthorised. This year, the department has announced a list of unauthorised schools, which includes 211 schools, most of which are English medium.

Among the unauthorised schools, nine schools are in the F South Zone, 13 schools in F North Zone, 3 in east part, 4 in east, 4 in west, 4 in P west, 2 in P north, 2 in R North, 4 in R Middle, 1 in West, 2 in R South, 56 unauthorised schools in M East area, 4 in M West, 1 in F South, 1 in R South, 3 in M East, and 3 in R North.

ISRO’s Young Scientists Programme to train class 9 students

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Akash
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ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched “Young Scientist Programme” or “Yuva Vigyani Karyakram” to impart basic knowledge on space technology, space science and space applications to the students of class ninth onwards.

ISRO has chalked out this programme to ‘catch them young’.

Under the programme, students will be provided residential training of around two weeks during their summer holidays. Every year, ISRO will select three students from each State/Union Territory (UT) to participate in this programme. The programme will may choose any student irrespective of their boards i.e. CBSE, ICSE and state-board.

Students who have passed their class eight recently and currently studying in class nine are also eligible for the programme.

The selection of the students will be based on the academic performance and extracurricular activities. A circular in this regard has already been circulated to chief secretaries of States/Administrators of UTs.

Students belonging to rural areas will be given special weightage in the selection criteria. ISRO is likely to release the list of selected candidates from each State by end of March.

IAF pilot Abhinandan to be a part of Rajasthan’s school syllabus

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Akash
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Abhinandan

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.

Professor Dr Rajiv Dharaskar becomes director of IIIT Kottayam

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Akash
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IIIT Kottayam

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
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.

Like ATM, Swayam is ATL – Anytime Learning: Prakash Javadekar

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Akash
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Prakash Javadekar

“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.”

Govt of Rajasthan assigns additional Charge of Special Secretary School & Elementary Education to IAS V Sarvana Kumar

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Akash
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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).

Rajasthan: IAS Dr R Venkateswaran gets additional charge of Sanskrit Education Chief Secretary

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Akash
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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.

Rajasthan Govt gives additional charge of Governing Secretary, Science & Technology to IAS Vaibhav Galriya

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Akash
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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.

UP Board class 10 and 12 exams 2019: Results likely to be declared in April last week

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Akash
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UP Board Result 2019

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.

KVS Admission 2019-20: Application process begins

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KVS admission 2019-20

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.

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