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Education Notes

PUNJAB tion organised at the Girls wave conditions. They also boarding school.
Teacher training Inter College, Kaulagarh. alleged that the warden The university will
In the initial phase,
initiative Sampark FLN TV — a compelled them to lie conduct academic and
to senior officials when
training programmes in
Chandigarh, january 20. device that converts they visited the school for physical education and
The Punjab government any television set into inspection. sports sciences, aided by
has finalised a plan to an interactive learning Neither the guard nor latest sports technolo-
send a first batch of 36 platform with preloaded teachers were aware that gies and medicine. Study
principals of government lessons featuring quizzes, 61 girls were missing from programmes will include
schools to the Principals’ worksheets and animated the hostel until the district sports management,
Academy, Singapore for a content — will be installed authorities contacted infrastructure engineer-
specially designed training in 100 schools state- them. ing, psychology, nutrition,
programme this month wide, impacting 17,000 journalism and sports
(February). students. A total of 200 GUJARAT marketing.
Addressing a press con- teachers will be trained to Bribery charge arrest “We are in touch
ference, education min- use the smart platform. with state governments,
ister Harjot Singh Bains “Sampark smartshala Ahmedabad, january 9. The universities and other
said: “Since teachers are is an initiative to pro- Gujarat Anti-Corruption institutions working in
nation builders who can mote education through Bureau (ACB) arrested a this domain,” said Deswal,
lift the level of education, modern technology. It DEO (district education addressing a press confer-
their teaching skills need will reach out to nearly officer) for demanding ence in Sonipat.
to be upgraded by ensur- 11,000 schools statewide. and accepting a bribe of
ing quality training. The In particular, the initiative Rs.20,000 from a govern- KARNATAKA
principals will take part will prove very useful to ment school principal near First green ITI
in a professional teach- children living in remote Lunawada town.
ers’ training workshop in areas of the state,” said the The Mahisagar district Bengaluru, january 10. The
Singapore from February chief minister. DEO was trapped accept- Government Women’s ITI,
6-10.” . ing the bribe, which he Mangaluru became the
Last year, chief minister JHARKHAND had allegedly demanded first Industrial Training
Bhagwant Singh Mann Overnight protest trek from a school principal Institute (ITI) to go green
convened a meeting with when she had approached countrywide. Under
government school prin- Chaibasa (jharkhand), his office for the second a pilot project, Quest
cipals seeking inputs on january 18. A hostel time to complain about Alliance, a Bengaluru-
ways and means to raise warden, four teachers and delay in allotment of an based not-for-profit, will
school education stan- security guard of the fully ‘employee number’ to a also work with ITI-Halol
dards. residential government- newly appointed teacher in (Gujarat) and ITI-
run Kasturba Gandhi Girls her school. Srikona (Assam) at three
UTTARAKHAND School, Khuntpani were levels — infrastructure,
Sampark FLN TV served show-cause no- HARYANA cognitive development
tices after 61 girl students
and preparing students for
Dehradun, january 2. trekked 17 km overnight to Sports University of green careers.
Under a Sampark smart- register a complaint at the Haryana “Our institute plans to
shala initiative to trans- deputy commissioner’s of- Sonipat, january 2. Former become a green ITI and
form government school fice highlighting abuse and IPS officer S.S. Deswal has inspire students to pursue
classrooms into smart “atrocities” inflicted upon been appointed vice chan- green careers. We want
classrooms, chief minister them by school authori- cellor of the Sports Uni- to build a green mindset
Pushkar Singh Dhami ties. versity of Haryana which among our students. For
introduced Sampark FLN The students informed is all set to start opera- this we are conducting an
(foundational literacy the DSE (district super- tions in the new academic audit,” said Shivakumar
and numeracy) TV and intendent education) year. The 200-acre sports S, principal of the Gov-
Sampark Science TV — that they were served university will be carved ernment Women’s ITI,
free-of-charge plug and stale food, denied clean out of the campus of the Mangaluru, speaking on
play devices designed by toilets and backward class Motilal Nehru School of the occasion.
the Noida-based Sampark children were forced to Sports, Sonipat — India’s
Foundation — at a func- sleep on the floor in cold top-ranked government Paromita Sengupta with bureau
inputs
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