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HC issues notice for free education of underprivileged
Delhi High Court today issued notices to Centre and Delhi government in regard to Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking free education to students belonging to Disadvantaged Group (DG) and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).The PIL was filed seeking the amendment in Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009 to provide free education in unaided schools beyond class VIII and up to class XII.The next date of hearing in this matter is scheduled for September 26.Currently, students admitted under RTE around the country are facing the threat of discontinuing their studies after Class VIII."The very objective of RTE of allowing DG/EWS students to study in unaided schools would be defeated if they are not allowed to continue studies up to class XII and complete their schooling", argued Advocate Ashok Agarwal, who also happens to be the petitioner.
HC seeks response of Centre, Delhi on plea on EWS students
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Central and Delhi government to file response on a PIL seeking a change in the law to ensure students from poor families who pass Class 8 from private schools can complete their education up to the senior secondary level.
Now Kerala is bringing literacy to tribals, migrant labourers
It has been billed as a state with 100 per cent literacy. But people there know they had an unfinished task. Having actually reached an overall literacy rate of 93.94 per cent, Kerala has now embarked on a programme to bridge the small gap in its achievements by training illiterates among tribals, scheduled castes, transgenders and the migrant labour communities.
Five students of class 10 and 12 end life in MP on day of
Five students, including three girls, allegedly committed suicide today in various districts of Madhya Pradesh apparently for either failing or not doing well in the MP board examinations for classes 10 and 12, the results of which were announced today. The deceased include four students of class 10 and one student of class 12, police said. Besides, two girls allegedly tried to kill themselves in Chhindwara and Damoh districts, but survived the attempt. Two deceased hailed each from Bhopal and Sehore districts while one hailed from Ujjain district, according to police. "Bhavna Raikwar (17) hanged herself in the kitchen of her house in Bhoipura locality in Bhopal for failing class 10 exam," said Taliya police station inspector Karan Singh. Similarly, Karan Kande (20) jumped off the sixth floor of a building in Koh-e-Fiza area of the city fearing that he would not crack the class 12 exams, another police inspector said. He said Kande jumped to death before his result was ..
ICSE class 12 topper credits his mother for success
Abhijnan Chakraborty who topped the ICSE Class 12 examination in the country today gave credit of his stellar success to his mother, a businesswoman. Chakraborty, a student of Lilavatibai Podar High School in the city, scored aggregate of 99.5%. "I practiced with proper planning and did hard work as much as I could do. During all these days, my mother who is a businesswomen, constantly inspired me and gave useful instruction to follow my studies. I give my first credit to her only," he said. Chakraborty said his teachers and staff of the school also contributed to his success. The child of single-parent, Chakraborty said joining coaching classes didn't help him much. Chakraborty said he wanted to become a scientist.
US remains top international destination for Indian students
The United States continues to remain the top international destination for Indian students who make up for 17 per cent of all international students there, according to the US India Education Foundation (USIEF). "United States remains the top international destination for Indian students, hosting over 186,000, twice as many as a decade ago. Indians make up 17 per cent of all international students in the US today," a statement by the USIEF said. Ambassador Jennifer Zimdahl Galt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State, visited the USIEF over the weekend to underline the importance the US government places on promoting educational exchanges between the world's two largest democracies. The meeting came at the start of Ambassador Galt's week-long visit to India and Bhutan," the statement added. Galt also met with Fulbright Program students, including Americans studying in India as well as Indian alumni of US colleges and ...
MP: More girls figure on class 10 and 12 merit lists
Girls outshone boys in the merit list of class 10 and 12 examinations conducted by the Madhya Pradesh education board, results for which were announced today. The overall pass percentage stood at 66.54% and 68.07% for class 10 and class 12, respectively. A total of 98 girls and 83 boys figured on the merit list for class 10, while 71 girls and 62 boys for class 12. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the results were better compared to the last year.
Education loan of over Rs 4 lakh cannot be demanded as right: HC
The Madras High Court has said an education loan of more than Rs 4 lakh cannot be demanded as a right, without any security, and that its sanction is covered by bank guidelines. Justice S Vaidyanathan passed the order recently, while disposing of a plea filed by R Sanskrit, seeking a direction to the Pallikaranai branch of the Indian Bank here, for sanctioning an education loan of Rs 63.90 lakh towards the revised tuition fee for her MBBS course in a private medical college. According to the petitioner, she had applied for the loan in 2016, but it was not processed by the bank. She had received Rs 6 lakh as scholarship for pursuing the medical course. According to the counsel for the Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & Research Institute, the petitioner was admitted to the institute in the 2016-2017 academic year. She had given a joint declaration, along with her father, to pay the Rs 18,90,000 tuition fee as well as the annual hostel and application fees, the counsel said. However,
Online registration process for admissions will be glitch-free: DU
The Delhi University administration is making all efforts to avoid any technical glitches during the online registration process for admission to various courses in its affiliated colleges, beginning tomorrow. Last year, technical glitches in the online portal surfaced right from day one of the admission process. The website's server went down and many aspirants failed to access the portal. "We have opened all tabs and ensuring zero technical glitches," Officer on Special Duty (Admission) Ashutosh Bharadwaj said. While the registration for undergraduate programmes will commence tomorrow from 6 pm onwards, postgraduate programmes and postgraduate diploma in cyber security and law registrations will begin on May 18. Registration for Ph.D and M.Phil programmes will begin on May 20. Meanwhile, Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) president Rocky Tuseed said the union would set up a centre on North Campus to help aspirants in the registration process. Admissions to Ph.D, M.Phil, ...
Gurgaon students top ICSE, ISC exams in Delhi-NCR
Gurgaon students Jivansh Kakkar and Manavi Kapoor topped the ICSE class 10 examinations while Antra Kapoor bagged the top position in the class 12 exams, the results of which were declared today. The top scorers in the class 10 exams, both from The Shri Ram School in Gurgaon, scored 98.80 per cent. The second position was bagged by Nishka Arora (98.40 per cent) from the same school. The third position was shared by Shreya Singhal, Ayesha Dhall and Kabir Oberio from The Shri Ram School, Dintyala Rahul Bhardwaj from Golden Heights School in Gurgaon and Prashati Sarraf from Sophia Girl's School in Meerut Cantonment. They have all scored 98.20 per cent. Similarly in the class 12 examinations, the top scorer from The Shri Ram School bagged 99.25 per cent. The second position was shared by Tanushree Pendharkar and Sanjana Hira, both from the same school. They both scored 99 per cent. Khushank Tyagi from St Mary's Academy in Meerut Cantonment secured the third position with 98.75 per cent. A
No moderation or spiking of marks in this year's result: CICSE
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), which declared the class 10 and 12 results today, did not follow any moderation policy this year, a top board official said. "We did not follow any moderation policy. Also, there was no spiking of marks. Despite that the number of students scoring above 99 per cent has increased this year," Gerry Arathoon, the CEO of the Council, told reporters. "Last year also, we had waited for the Delhi High Court order and then for CBSE's stand on the issue as the in-principle decision to scrap moderation policy was taken unanimously by 32 boards," he added. While 49 students got more than 99 per cent in the Class 12 exam, 15 students scored more than 99 per cent in the Class 10 exam. In Class 12, the top score was 99.5 per cent, bagged by seven students from across the country. The second position of 99.25 per cent was shared by 17 students. The third highest score was 99 per cent, bagged by 25 people. Mumbai boy Swayam Das ...
ICSE, ISC results declared, 64 students get more than 99 pc
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) today declared results for the Class 12 and Class 10 exams with girls once again bettering boys in overall scores and 64 students getting more than 99 per cent. While 49 students got more than 99 per cent in the Class 12 exam, 15 students scored more than 99 per cent in the Class 10 exam. In Class 12, the top score was 99.5 per cent, bagged by seven students from across the country. The second position of 99.25 per cent was shared by 17 students. The third highest score was 99 per cent, bagged by 25 people. Mumbai boy Swayam Das emerged the Class 10 all India topper with 99.4 per cent. Jalandhar's Jasmin Kaur Chahal and Mumbai's Anokhi Amit Mehta jointly bagged the second position with 99.2 per cent each. The third position was shared by 12 students who scored 99 per cent each. "Class 12 saw a pass percentage of 96.21 recording a slight dip from last year's 96.47 per cent, while 98.51 per cent students passed Class 10,"
Kalpataru wins CREDAI-MCHI Golden Pillar Award for its CSR initiatives
Kalpataru Limited, India's leading premium and luxury real estate developer won the prestigious CREDAI-MCHI Golden Pillar Award for the Best CSR Programme of the Year.The award recognises Kalpataru's contribution to further educational opportunities for children from society's less privileged sections, and its signature employee volunteering initiative - 'Sparsh' - which provides a platform for employees to contribute their time, skills and resources towards various community development activities.To support education of less privileged first generation learners, Kalpataru has set up Community Learning Centres and Study Classes which augment teaching at school, and Computer Learning Centres which provide access to basic computer education for free at their doorstep.These learning hubs provide safe and enabling environment for gaining knowledge, as well as holistic development through co-curricular activities.Kalpataru has helped create nine Mini Science Centres in various schools to .
Class 10, 12 results out in MP
The Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education on Monday announced the results of the examinations held for Class 10 and 12.
MP Board results for class 10, 12 announced
The result for Madhya Pradesh board exams for Class 10 and Class 12 has been declared.68.54 percent students passed the Class 12 exams, while 66 percent of students passed the Class 10 exams.The results were declared on the official website of the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE Board).The Board conducted the Class 10 and Class 12 exams for academic session 2017-18 in the month of March-April 2018.
AIIMS Bhopal: Duo on protest march seeking full-time director
Two medical students of the premier AIIMS Bhopal, who embarked on a foot march on May 3 to protest against the institute functioning without a director since 2015, have covered 300 kilometres and have reached Shivpuri district in the state, they told PTI today. Sant Guru Prasad, former president of the AIIMS Students Union, Bhopal and fellow medical student Chandan Aryan plan to walk all the way till New Delhi to force the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry to appoint a full-time director as well as fill up other vacancies. Prasad told PTI that he and Aryan plan to reach Delhi by the end of this month or the first week of June. "AIIMS Bhopal does not have a permanent director since 2015. In order to draw the attention of the authorities, we have decided to walk all that way to Delhi. We started this march on May 3." Prasad told PTI over phone from Dinara in Shivpuri district. He alleged that the absence of a full-time director was hampering the progress of the ...
Educational exchange with India vital: US envoy
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs at the United States (US) Department of State, Ambassador Jennifer Zimdahl Galt's visit to the U.S.-India Education Foundation (USIEF) this weekend was aimed at underlining the importance on promoting educational exchanges between the world's two largest democracies."The United States welcomes Indian students to take advantage of the diversity of higher education institutions, as well as the world-class research at U.S. universities across the country," Ambassador Galt said."We encourage Indian students to be in touch with our EducationUSA advisors to find the U.S. college or university that meets their educational needs," she added.The Ambassador toured USIEF met Education USA staff, who provided guidance and information to Indian students looking to pursue higher education in the U.S.The EducationUSA advising center at USIEF, Delhi provides accurate, current, and comprehensive information on U.S. higher ...
Female candidates' sleeves snipped off before exam in Bihar
Female candidates appearing for Paramedical exam in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district were left in shock, when the sleeves of their clothes were torn off, before the exam.The invigilator snipped off the sleeves of the girls before letting them enter into the examination hall for giving the paper.Talking to ANI, one of the officers said that a notice was circulated earlier about the disciplinary measure to be followed during the exam, which included the type of cloth to carry.Where the girls claimed that the sleeves of their clothes were snipped off forcefully, the Muzaffarpur District Education Office claimed that the girls willingly did it."The guidelines were circulated earlier, but they did not follow it. The invigilators did not do it forcefully, but the girls willingly snipped off their sleeves," District Education Office said.Following the incident, the family members of the girls staged a massive protest outside the centre.
AMU students meet district officials to end campus logjam
Leaders of the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) held a meeting with senior district officials today over the ongoing two-week-long protests on the campus. AMU sources confirmed that the leaders of the AMUSU met senior district officials in a bid to end the logjam on the campus. The students are reported to have reiterated their demands pertaining to action against those who had barged into the campus on May 2, seeking removal of a portrait of Pakistan founder M A Jinnah that had been adorning a wall of the union office for decades. They also demanded action against those policemen who were responsible for the lathicharge on protesting AMU students the same evening. Meanwhile, AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor visited the site of the dharna and urged the protesting leaders to call off their agitation to help restore normalcy on campus as admission tests and annual examinations are underway. Prof. Mansoor said that if the health of any student deteriorated during the ...
AMU Jinnah portrait row: BJP MP criticises ex-VP Hamid Ansari
BJP MP Satish Kumar Gautam, who triggered a row when he demanded that a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah be removed from Aligarh Muslim University, has criticised former vice president Hamid Ansari for supporting students over the issue. Ansari had backed the students' demand for action against intruders who created a ruckus on the varsity campus over the portrait on May 2, when he was to have been conferred with life membership of the AMU Students' Union. The event was cancelled because of violent protests allegedly led by right-wing Hindu activists over the removal of the portrait of the Muslim League leader and founder of Pakistan. "Ansari, who had held the senior post of the country's vice president, should have refrained from supporting the students and issuing such a statement," Gautam told PTI on the phone today. The former vice president and diplomat, who had also studied at AMU, said the disruption, its precise timing and the "excuse manufactured for justifying it" raised ...