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Education Notes

J&K
item learning kit to make 83 percent for girls. India) Mission, to sensitise
Moving direct appeal learning enjoyable and Congratulating success- children about cleanliness.
interactive. Moreover, they ful students, Chief Min- Schools have been
Kathua/jammu, april 20. will observe ‘ECCE Day’ ister Yogi Adityanath granted permission to
Days after class III student every month together with tweeted: “May your future screen the Marathi version
Seerat Naaz in a video parents, said Atishi Mar- be bright with the grace of the film in the academic
message urged Prime lena, Women and Child of Maa Saraswati. Stu- year 2023-24 and 2024-
Minister Narendra Modi Development Minister of dents who bagged top 10 25 without disturbing
to ensure basic facilities at the AAP state government, positions at the state and the teaching schedule. A
her government school in after reviewing anganwadi district levels in the class X film screening report also
Kathua district in the re- projects with department and XII board exams will needs to be submitted to
mote Lohai-Malhar block, officials. be honoured.” the education minister,
Ravi Shankar Sharma, Addressing a press con- said the resolution.
director of school educa- ference, the minister said: KERALA
tion (Jammu), initiated “Early childhood educa- History deletions ODISHA
action to give the school a tion is a priority of the Skilling urgency
facelift. AAP government. Angan- ignored
Elaborating on her wadi workers and supervi- Thiruvananthapuram, april Bhubaneswar, april 25. The
school’s pathetic condi- sors will receive training 26. Higher secondary stu- Centre is deliberating ways
tion, Naaz said students from master trainers. To dents across the state are and means to integrate
are forced to sit on dirty involve parents in chil- likely to be taught portions skilling into the formal
floors, which often stain dren’s education, the Delhi that the National Council school education system,
their uniforms. She also government will celebrate of Educational Research said Union Education
highlighted the poor ECCE Day every month and Training (NCERT) has Minister Dharmendra
condition of toilets and by inviting parents to par- deleted from its class XI- Pradhan, ahead of the
the building’s unfinished ticipate in group activities XII history textbooks, in- third G20 Education
construction work. “I with their children.” cluding those pertaining to Working Group Meeting to
request you to build a nice Parents will also receive Mahatma Gandhi’s assas- be held in the city.
school for us so we can counselling to create sup- sination and subsequent Addressing a press
continue our education portive environments for ban on the RSS, said the conference, the minister
and not get scolded by our their children’s education state’s general education said: “The UGC, AICTE
mothers for getting our at home, she added. minister V. Sivankutty, and NCERT must come
uniforms dirty,” the girl after chairing a curricu- together to create a frame-
said in a moving appeal to UTTAR PRADESH lum steering committee work for mapping future
the prime minister. Girls outperform boys meeting. skills. There is urgent need
“A project worth Rs.91 “The curriculum to de-link degrees from
lakh was sanctioned to Prayagraj, april 25. Girls committee unanimously competency and envision a
upgrade the school but outperformed boys in decided to include all por- future where competency
pending administrative the intermediate and tions omitted from the old will prevail. Towards for-
approval, the work was high school examinations textbooks in the syllabus,” malising skilling in school
stalled. It has now been conducted by the Uttar said Sivankutty. education, we discussed
sorted out and work is Pradesh Secondary Educa- the way forward with some
underway,” Sharma con- tion Council this year, said MAHARASHTRA delegates from Singapore
firmed after visiting the Mahendra Dev, Director Swachh Bharat for a comprehensive and
school. of Secondary Education, substantive partnership
while announcing board circular towards skilling.”
DELHI exam results. Mumbai, april 11. The The first meeting of the
Anganwadis upgrada- The pass percentage state’s school education G20 Education Work-
tion of girls in the high school and sports department ing Group was held in
Chennai earlier this year,
issued a government reso-
examination was 93.34
New delhi, april 24. All percent, against 86.64 per- lution directing schools followed by the second at
11,000 anganwadis cent for boys. In the inter- statewide to screen Let’s Amritsar last month.
(government preschools) mediate examination, the Change, a film on the
in the national capital will pass percentage of boys Central government’s Paromita Sengupta with bureau
be provided with a 35- was 69.34 percent, against Swachh Bharat (Clean inputs

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