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Education Notes

DELHI
Addressing students investigate the matter and Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur,
Gender equality during the silver jubilee provide an action-taken Varanasi and Udupi, is all

initiative celebrations of the Hindi report, which we have set to inaugurate its sixth
already submitted. We are
campus in Guwahati. A
faculty of Rajiv Gandhi
New delhi, september 10. University, Khandu said: committed to maintaining partnership agreement
Women depicted in roles “Our government’s propos- a ragging-free campus and was signed between the
traditionally associated al for establishment of a have taken appropriate North-Eastern Handi-
with men and men per- regional centre of the Ken- action to ensure that such crafts and Handlooms
forming household chores driya Hindi Sansthan in incidents do not recur.” Development Corporation
are some of the changes the state has been accepted Limited (NEHHDCL) and
proposed to be incorpo- by the Centre and now CHHATTISGARH the Gems and Jewellery
rated in textbooks of Delhi sufficient and suitable land Hindi medium MBBS Export Promotion Council
government schools. needs to be provided for it. (GJEPC).
In a huge step towards Arunachal Pradesh is the Raipur, september 14. Addressing a media
promoting gender equal- only state in the North-east Formal Hindi-medium conference, NEHHDCL
ity, Delhi’s State Council which has adopted Hindi medical education (MBBS) advisor Sriparna Barua
of Educational Research as its lingua franca.” will be offered statewide said: “IIGJ will bring its
and Training (SCERT) from the academic year skilling expertise to the
conducted a comprehen- ODISHA 2024-25. Chhattisgarh is Northeast, helping to
sive audit of 53 textbooks Ragging investigation the country’s second state implement the PM Vish-
and curriculums to identify after Madhya Pradesh to wakarma initiative, which
gender biases and stereo- Berhampur, september offer medical education in offers specialised training
types in academic material. 23. An investigation has English and Hindi. and business development
An audit committee been ordered after some Addressing a press support to artisans and
comprising personnel first-year postgrad hostel conference on the occasion entrepreneurs.”
from the National Council students of Berhampur of Hindi Diwas, Chief Min-
of Educational Research University in Ganjam dis- ister Vishnu Deo Sai said HIMACHAL PRADESH
and Training (NCERT), trict alleged that they were his government intends to Exposure excursions
Delhi University, central ragged by seniors. implement Prime Minister
institutes of education, and In a complaint sub- Narendra Modi’s directive Shimla, september 18.
several NGOs analysed mitted to the Univer- to provide medical educa- Eligibility criteria are be-
textbooks and curricula, sity Grants Commission tion in Hindi. “Our gov- ing drawn up for sending
identifying gender preju- (UGC), several first-year ernment has taken a big meritorious class X and
dices and stereotyping in post-graduate students al- decision on Hindi Diwas. XII students on exposure
school textbooks. leged that senior students The MBBS programme excursions across India
The committee flagged had entered their hostel will also be taught in Hindi and abroad, said state
male-dominated content, rooms around 11 p.m on with textbooks in Hindi education minister Rohit
illustrations and language the night of the incident. introduced in the first year. Thakur presiding over a
and the depiction of wom- The seniors reportedly The health ministry has meeting of ministry of-
en in submissive roles. interrogated them under been requested to provide ficials.
the guise of “introduc- books and study materi- “The government
ARUNACHAL PRADESH tions” and continued ask- als. This initiative will has resolved to send
Kendriya Hindi ing questions, depriving especially benefit students 20 students each from
Sansthan them of sleep. The com- from rural areas since they classes X and XII, includ-
ing ten students excel-
plainants, however, did not
are from Hindi-medium
Itanagar, september 25. specify the names of the schools.” he said. ling in sports, cultural
Chief Minister Pema Khan- senior students involved. activities, NCC, NSS and
du announced the state On receiving the com- ASSAM Bharat Scouts and Guides.
government will provide plaint forwarded by UGC, New IIGJ campus Selected teachers will ac-
land for establishment of a the university promptly company these students on
regional centre of the Ken- launched an inquiry. Ad- Guwahati, september 23. these excursions,” said the
driya Hindi Sansthan, an dressing a press confer- The Indian Institute minister.
autonomous organisation ence, vice chancellor of Gems and Jewellery
under the Union education Geetanjali Dash said: (IIGJ), which has es- Paromita Sengupta with
ministry. “UGC has instructed us to tablished campuses in bureau inputs

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