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MEGHALAYA will offer a new age, inte- CISCE schools,” said Pal. conference, additional
Salary arrears grated teacher education Director General of Police
JHARKHAND
assurance programme after class XII Women’s Day (Law and Order) Prashant
Kumar said the Ballia dis-
to produce a new genera-
SHILLONG, MARCH 3. Educa- tion of teachers. It will also trict inspector of schools
tion minister Lahkmen focus on fundamental and initiatives and 16 others have been
Rymbui assured 12,451 applied research in educa- RANCHI, MARCH 8. On the arrested and cases regis-
teachers employed in tion by collaborating with occasion of Women’s Day tered against the accused.
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan national and international (March 8) chief minister “The incident was ac-
— the Centre’s flagship organisations. The govern- Hemant Soren inaugurat- corded great seriousness
programme for universali- ment wants to inspire ed a vocational skills train- by the chief minister and
sation of elementary edu- today’s students to become ing centre in Dhanbad a Special Task Force has
cation — schools statewide tomorrow’s teachers,” under the state’s Tejaswini been asked to investigate
that their pending dues of said Sisodia in a Twitter project. The project’s ob- the matter,” he added.
the past two months will message. jective is to provide skills
be paid soon. DTU students will ac- training and secondary TELANGANA
This assurance was quire experiential teaching education to adolescent NALSAR’s liberal
given in response to experience in Delhi’s gov- girls and young women in
protest marches staged ernment schools for the the 14-24 age group in 17 initiative
by SSA teachers against duration of their course, districts of the state. HYDERABAD, MARCH 27.
the government for failing he added. “Considerable work is NALSAR University of
to pay their salaries since being done to empower Law has allocated one
last October. According HARYANA women through various floor of its main admin
to the minister, Rs.145 Free digital tablets schemes. The government building as a gender-
crore is required to clear intends to extend all possi- neutral space with rooms
five months salary arrears CHANDIGARH, MARCH 7. Edu- ble support to them. Rural allotted to students of the
of SSA teachers. “The cation minister Kanwar women need special atten- LGBTQ+ community. Si-
government will clear the Pal proposed distribution tion and we have to reach multaneously, an interim
remaining three months’ of free-of-charge digital them,” he said, speaking policy has been formu-
pending dues after the tablets to classes X-XII on the occasion. The chief lated to address inclusivity
Centre sanctions funds students of government minister also honoured concerns of the LGBTQ+
for this education scheme. schools across the state. anganwadi workers of community, and the
Meanwhile we will make To this end, the state West Singhbhum district. university is in the process
all efforts to resolve issues government has decided to of finalising the policy,
related to implementation purchase 500,000 tablets UTTAR PRADESH said an official statement
of the SSA programme in at an estimated cost of English exam issued by vice chancellor
the state,” he said. Rs.620 crore, the minister Faizan Mustafa’s office.
said during the budget ses- cancelled “I have involved
DELHI sion of the state assembly. LUCKNOW, MARCH 30. The students in my adminis-
Delhi Teachers “Tablets with preloaded class XII English exam of tration and their creative
University content and personalised the Uttar Pradesh Mad- ideas have helped me
to come up with several
and adaptive learning
hyamik Shikshak Pari-
NEW DELHI, MARCH 4. software and free Inter- shad state examination progressive, liberal and
Deputy chief minister net data will be provided board was cancelled in 24 futuristic initiatives,” said
Manish Sisodia inaugu- to students in May this districts after the ques- Mustafa. Earlier in 2015,
rated the Delhi Teachers year. This scheme aims to tion paper was reportedly the NALSAR Law Univer-
University (DTU) in the bridge the digital educa- leaked. Chief minister Yogi sity had issued a gender-
national capital. DTU will tion gap between children Adityanath — who recently neutral graduation certifi-
offer undergraduate BA-B. in government schools took oath for a historic cate to a student who did
Ed and B.Sc-B.Ed pro- who are from economi- second term in office — not wish to be identified
grammes to school-leavers cally weaker and deprived invoked the National Se- with honorific Mr or Ms,
and conduct education sections and unable to curity Act (NSA) to cancel but with ‘Mx’.
research programmes. purchase devices like the exam which is resched-
“This is Delhi’s first-of- smartphones and tablets, uled for April 13. Paromita Sengupta with
its-kind university which and children in CBSE and Addressing a press bureau inputs

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