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Education Notes

PUNJAB division marks,” a prison MADHYA PRADESH universities.
Education officers department official said at Girl child education Addressing the me-
suspended a press conference. drive dia, HPPERC Chairman
Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Atul
“Inmates who study in
Chandigarh, may 30. Harjot the prisons are given light Bhopal, may 2. Observ- Kaushik said: “Documents
Singh Bains, the state’s physical work and during ing Ladli Laxmi Utsav of vice chancellors of
school education minister, the board examinations, (festival of the girl child), Arni University, Shoolini
ordered the suspension of they are exempted from all chief minister Shivraj University, IEC University,
three officials of his minis- manual work. Books and Singh Chouhan announced Bahara University and
try on charges of derelic- study materials are made his government’s decision APG Shimla University
tion of duty. available to them in jail. to pay the tuition fees of were examined for verifi-
During a surprise Moreover, most jails have meritorious girl students cation of eligibility criteria
inspection of the Govern- libraries from where they from MP admitted into as per UGC guidelines.”
ment Primary School, can access study materi- IITs, engineering, law, and The process of removing
Lambayan in SAS Nagar als,” he added. medical colleges. “Under ineligible VCs was started
district, class V students the Ladli Laxmi Yojana, in November 2020 and
brought to the minister’s MAHARASHTRA fees for engineering, law, thus far, 16 VCs have been
attention that they were Biodiversity study IIT and medical colleges found ineligible for their
yet to receive their English will not be paid by parents, posts, he added.
textbooks. Investiga- scholarships but by Shivraj mama
tion revealed that 3,500 Mumbai, may 3. The state (uncle),” he said, address- MEGHALAYA
textbooks had not been cabinet recently ap- ing a press conference. Dropouts reinduction
printed due to the negli- proved a proposal to Chouhan added that
gence of ministry officials. provide scholarships to 75 henceforth Ladli Lakshmi programme
As a result, 2,500 students students over a period of Utsav will be celebrated in Shillong, may 30. Megha-
were deprived of English three years for conduct- every city and panchayat laya’s Samagra Shiksha
textbooks. ing research in mangroves of Madhya Pradesh from (K-12 education) authori-
Apart from suspension and marine biodiversity May 9-15, during which ties signed a collabora-
orders issued against the in top-ranked universities various competitions, tion agreement with the
three officials, the minister abroad, said an official programmes and health National Institute of Open
also ordered the district statement issued by the check-ups will be organ- Schooling (NIOS) to re-
education officer and Chief Minister’s Office. ised. induct school dropouts in
block education officer The outlay for the schol- this north-east state back
to be issued show-cause arships is estimated at HIMACHAL PRADESH into the education system.
notices. Rs.31.50 crore. Ineligible vice Addressing a press
Every year, 25 students conference, project
UTTAR PRADESH will be given scholarships chancellors director Swapnil Tembe
Prisoners good show by the forest department’s Shimla, may 20. The vice- said: “While Assam has
Mangrove and Marine chancellors of two private recorded the highest
Lucknow, may 7. Ninety- Biodiversity Conservation universities in the state dropout rate (31 percent),
five percent of prisoners Foundation. These schol- have been found ineligible it is closely followed by
in Uttar Pradesh’s jails arships will be awarded for the post after thorough Meghalaya (27.9 percent).
who wrote the class X to students admitted into verification of their docu- An MoU was recently
state board examination higher educational institu- ments and credentials, signed for identifying
passed, while the class XII tions abroad ranked with- said a senior official of out of school children
success rate was over 70 in the Top 150 in the latest the Himachal Pradesh and enrolling them into
percent. “Fifty-seven of annual World University Private Educational NIOS study centres with
the 60 inmates who wrote Rankings league tables of Institutions Regulatory a demand to increase the
the class X examination the London-based Times Commission (HPPERC). number of NIOS centres
averaged 82.40 percent, a Higher Education (THE) The commission launched in the state.” Currently,
first-division score. Of the or Quacquarelli Symonds an investigation after it Meghalaya has only 25
64 inmates who wrote the (QS). Thirty percent of received complaints of NIOS study centres in five
class XII board examina- these scholarships will irregularities in appoint- of its 12 districts.
tion, 45 passed with 13 be awarded to women ments of VCs and princi- Paromita Sengupta with bureau
percent scoring first- students. pals in private colleges and inputs

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