Chandigarh [India], December 7 (ANI/PRNewswire): With a mission to motivate the students to choose sciences as career after schooling, Chandigarh University today launched a Mobile Science Bus which has been equipped with the state-of-the-art research and practical-lab facilities that can help students to perform advanced practices which are part of their course curriculum. The Science bus project is of Government of India's Mobile Science Exhibitions (MSE) mission, and is a joint effort of Chandigarh University Gharuan and Department of Science and Technology (DST). The inauguration ceremony was presided over by UT Adviser to Administrator, Dharam Pal (IAS) along with Harsuhinder Pal Singh Brar (PCS), Director of School Education Chandigarh; Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chancellor of Chandigarh University; Purva Garg, Education Secretary Chandigarh; and Rajeev Kumar, Principal, Govt. Model Senior Secondary School Sector-22 Chandigarh.

Banikanta Kakati Merit Award, under the Pragya Bharti scheme, this year is being awarded to a total of 35,800 beneficiaries, of which 6,052 are boys and 29,748 are girls.

New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): After the row over the Kerala education minister Sivankutty's statement that state government officials had not visited Delhi to study its education model, Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi on Sunday said the Kerala minister should check his facts before tweeting as she had never claimed that Kerala officials had visited Delhi.

New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI/NewsVoir): Blue Planet Skills announced the launch of a Collective Responsibility Drive in association with the Department of Education, Government of Delhi (South Delhi) under which the drive reach over 72 schools to encourage environment conscious waste management behaviours among students. The drive is expected to see participation from approximately 100,000 students.

Washington [US], April 20 (ANI/Sputnik): The Biden administration issued a release announcing that it is taking steps to correct "historic failures" that have hamstrung some 46 million student loan borrowers in debt amounting to USD 1.75 trillion.

New York [US], April 12 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) was briefed on the latest developments regarding the New York City subway shooting, White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted.

Thiruvananthapuram Mar 30 PTI Keralas CPIM-led LDF government on Wednesday decided to allow liquor shops in IT parks holding that such facilities are needed to make the state investment friendly The decision is part of the states new liquor policy approved by the state Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Officials said the government also considered the views of the IT companies while taking the decision In IT parks there are complaints that their employees and guests do not get the opportunity to have fun after working hours Special licenses will be issued for the supply of liquor with strict conditions in specially reserved zones in IT parks Such licenses need to be issued to make the state investment friendly the state Excise department said in a statement here Replying to a question in the Assembly in November last year the Chief Minister had said that many technology firms keen to establish their units in IT parks in the state have pointed out the lack of facilities like pubs there He had informed the Assembly that the representatives sent by such IT firms for studying the facilities in the IT parks have reported to their management about the lack of such facilities Meanwhile the government also decided to strengthen the anti-drug campaign with the participation of students at the schoolcollege level In collaboration with the Department of Education a plan will be formulated to make effective use of students extra-curricular time for the anti-drug campaign the Excise department said It said the ward-level vigilance committees in the local bodies will be strengthened to carry out campaigns against the menace of drugs with the participation of the people PTI TGB TGB HDA HDA

New Delhi Mar 27 PTI Three departments of the Delhi government will be working in close coordination to set up a boarding school for homeless children announced by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia during his budget speechThe AAP-led government has allocated Rs 10 crore for setting up such a school According to an official privy to the development the modalities of the same will be worked out in a couple of weeksThe modalities of the school will be worked out in close coordination with the Department of Social Welfare Department of Women and Child Development WCD and the Department of Education he told PTITalking about how the idea of the school originated the official said in the post-pandemic period there was a surge in the number of homeless children It was observed that the number of children seen near traffic signals had increased after the pandemic as opposed to the pre-pandemic time We did a pilot project in Malviya Nagar with the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights DCPCR and district authorities to see that if they are provided residential facilities how will they be benefitted We identified the children how they end up there and found that we may be able to prevent them from getting into begging by providing them residence he saidThe government will be coming up with a full-fledged schemeThe government has a commitment towards every child Our school model is very inclusive and if there is a segment that is not attending schoolwe will have to assess the reasons and work on them the official notedAnother official said the WCD has been working on the issue of street children and had even issued guidelines for their identification He said various NGOs and district authorities could also work on identifying such childrenThe data collected by district authorities of such children would come in handy for the education department he saidThe policy had said there is no legal definition of street children But Save the Children Organisation in its report Surviving The Street A Study of Street Children In Delhi had given the reference of UNICEF according to which three types of children belong to the category of street childrenThe three categories of street children are -- those who run away from their families and live alone on the street second is street-working children who spend most of their time on the streets fending for themselves but return home on a regular basis while the last category is children from street families who live on the streets with their familiesSisodia had proposed Rs 10 crore for setting up the boarding school while noting that the government has taken several measures to provide basic education to the homeless children but the measures have only been partially successfulIt is not possible to get quality education unless basic facilities like food and shelter are in place The Delhi government has decided to set up a boarding school with modern facilities for these underprivileged homeless children These schools will try to bring them into the mainstream of society he had saidDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also spoke about the initiative during the post budget press conference and said steps taken in this direction in the past did not bear the desired results because they lacked human touchTalking about the initiative he said the children would be provided emotional and psychological support at the school that would have five-star facilitiesWhen you stop at a traffic light you do not pay heed to a child knocking at your window Till date no government has paid attention to the children standing at the traffic lights that is because they are not vote banksWe will take care of them Our government will build an excellent school for those children they will stay there and study there We will make them better citizens Kejriwal added PTI SLB SRY

Jaipur, October 29: The slot booking registration for the Rajasthan Pre D.El.Ed 2021 has begun by the Department of Education, Rajasthan from October 28 onwards. The candidates can apply for slot booking can from October 28 to November 10, 2021. The complete schedule is available on the official site of the Department of Education, Rajasthan on predeled.com. According to […]

Shimla Sep 20 PTI Schools in Himachal Pradesh will remain closed till September 25 due to the COVID-19 situation in the state an official spokesperson said on MondayThe state government had earlier ordered closure of schools till September 21In a fresh order issued on Monday Chief Secretary and Chairperson of State Executive Committee Ram Subhag Singh said All schools shall continue to remain closed except residential schools further up to 25092021 Teaching and non-teaching staff shall continue to attend schools he addedFor residential schools standard operating procedure developed by the Department of Education will be followed to prevent any spread of COVID-19 the order added PTI DJI IJT