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UTTAR PRADESH The directorate will also of the academic year Under the agreement,
Embezzlement scandal launch an official YouTube 2021-22. Addressing the a scheme for information,
channel Shiksha Darpan media, a government of- education and commu-
Mathura, january 2. Sixty- to broadcast video content ficial said that the devices nication (IEC) will be
six suspects have been and e-magazine Shiksha will be preloaded with QR formulated on the lines of
taken into police custody Patrika, she added. coded NCERT content, the Swachh Bharat pro-
for alleged involvement Edusat videos, DIKSHA gramme and special train-
in a fraudulent diversion KARNATAKA online content, YouTube ing will be given to AMC
of Rs.23 crore from the ISRO-NITI Aayog videos prepared by teach- employees to welcome
state’s post-matriculation ers, question banks and tourists, says an AMC
scholarship fund during concordat preparatory material for official, who added that
the period 2015-20. bengaluru, january 11. competitive exams such as Indore’s civic governance
Those booked include The Indian Space Re- NEET, JEE, NDA. model is based on the ‘3R
social welfare officer Ka- search Organisation At a review meeting of formula’ — reduce, reuse
runes Tripathi, suspended (ISRO) will adopt 100 of the state’s school educa- and recycle.
by chief minister Yogi the 7,000 Atal Tinkering tion department of the ed-
Adityanath last December, Labs (ATLs) established ucation ministry presided ASSAM
three clerks of the district’s countrywide, to stimulate by chief minister Mano- Girl child incentives
social welfare department interest in space educa- har Lal Khattar, it was
and officials of nearly two tion and technology. This resolved that the tablets guwahati, january 4. In an
dozen government and decision was taken at a will be issued to students unprecedented initiative to
private Industrial Training virtual meeting attended based on the library books promote the education of
Institutes and other edu- by representatives of ISRO model with students ex- girl children, state educa-
cation institutions, said and the Atal Innovation pected to return them after tion minister Himanta
Mathura’s Superintendent Mission of NITI Aayog. completing their class X Biswa Sarma announced
of Police Udai Shankar According to an of- and XII board exams. that every school-going
Singh, addressing a press ficial statement issued on girl child will receive
conference. the occasion, ISRO will MADHYA PRADESH Rs.100 per day for attend-
facilitate coaching and Ayodhya development ing classes.
JAMMU mentoring of students in Speaking at a function
E-learning initiative advanced 21st century plan in Sivsagar, the minister
said 22,000 automo-
indore, january 8. The
cutting-edge outer space
jaMMu, january 14. The technologies. ISRO sci- Ayodhya Municipal tive scooters valued at
district administration’s entists and engineers will Corporation (AMC) and Rs.144.30 crore are cur-
Directorate of School actively mentor children the Indian Institute of rently being distributed
Education has resolved to and interact with teachers Management-Indore under the state govern-
establish a digital studio in ISRO-adopted ATLs to have signed a partnership ment’s Pragyan Bharti
for teachers in Jammu to encourage experiments, agreement to develop Scheme among girl stu-
train them deliver online brainstorm ideas and Ayodhya, where a new dents who passed the class
lectures under the Central spread awareness of outer Ram Temple is being XII board exam in the first
government’s Samagra space science and tech- constructed following a division. Scooters will also
Shiksha (primary-second- nologies. Supreme Court judgement be awarded to meritorious
ary school) programme. of November, 2019, into girl students who wrote
“While the directorate HARYANA an international tourism their exams in 2018 and
will set up the studio very Digital learning hub. 2019.
soon, various measures The prime objective of Moreover, a sum of
to improve quality of programme the agreement is to plan Rs.1,500 and Rs.2,000 will
education through digital chandigarh, january 4. the city aesthetically by in- also be deposited in the
interventions need to be The state government corporating best practices bank accounts of under-
introduced for making will distribute 8.20 lakh that have won Indore the graduate and postgradu-
learning more efficient computer tablets to cleanest city award under ate students to help them
and effective,” said Anu- facilitate online learning the Central government’s purchase textbooks and
radha Gupta, director of of class VIII-XII students Swachh Survekshan pro- study material.
school education at a press enrolled in state govern- gramme for the past four Paromita Sengupta with bureau
conference. ment schools at the start years. inputs

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