New Delhi Mar 30 PTI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the Delhi governments Business Blasters programme should also be implemented in universities and colleges so that students entrepreneurial ideas do not hit a roadblock after they finish schoolUnder the Business Blasters programme students of classes 11 and 12 are given Rs 2000 as seed money to develop business ideasKejriwal was speaking at the 14th convocation of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University GGSIPUDelhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal who is the chancellor of the university joined the event virtuallyNoting that the state of education in the country has not seen any significant changes since the days the British ruled over India Kejriwal said they had developed a certain degree-oriented model of education which I do not mean to dismissHowever in todays day and age after earning ones degree a young graduate steps out into the market of jobs only to wander and stumble in search of suitable employment he saidStressing that in Delhi the education sector has undergone a great deal of reform and improvement the chief minister said the children of a rickshaw puller a judge an IAS officer are studying under the same roof in Delhi government schoolsAfter having transformed the schools and the infrastructure we are now working on the content on what is being taught to students in these schools a silent revolution is taking place in Delhis education sector he saidThe mindset of students is being changed and they are being motivated to grow into the idea of not just seeking jobs but also giving jobs he saidIn Delhi government schools a total of 3 lakh students study in classes 11 and 12 These 3 lakh students were given Rs 2000 each which amounts to a total of 60 crore Using this seed money students came up with 52000 business ideas Kejriwal saidToday V C Professor Dr Mahesh Verma as well as Deputy Chief Minister Shri Manish Sisodia are present with us on stage I request them to initiate the Business Blasters programme in universities and colleges as wellWhile these students of classes 11 and 12 are exploring business ideas now they are likely to join colleges after finishing school after which the university education will weigh down on them often posing obstacles in their entrepreneurial path However if the same programme is started at the university level a student will be prepared before earning his college degree he saidThe chief minister said the current education system is very impersonal in nature A teacher walks into a classroom lectures students finishes the course students appear for exams earn their degrees and that is itI believe that each student deserves personal attention no student should be left behind whether they want to start a business get a job or study more While knowledge is a goal in itself one has to have the means to run their household There is little to no effort in the direction of preparing our students for this in universities I believe that this target-oriented approach in education is the need of the hour he saidKejriwal also spoke about the Delhi governments scheme for doorstep delivery of servicesOur government systems are running since the time of the British and they were designed by them to trouble us But we changed the system Just like you can get pizza over a phone call government services also come to your doorstep he saidA total of 53692 degrees including 205 PhDs were awarded at the convocationGGSIPU vice-chancellor Mahesh Verma said the university is adopting the National Education Policy 2020He thanked Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia for allocating Rs 20 crore for the university in the 2022-23 budget PTI SLB DIV DIV

New Delhi Feb 19 PTI Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday claimed that all the corrupt people have teamed up against the AAP and said they will get a befitting reply with the inauguration of 12430 modern classrooms in city schoolsIn a tweet in Hindi he also said the country will not bow down before these corrupt people and move aheadAll the corrupt people of the country have teamed up against us Today we will give them a befitting reply by inaugurating 12430 modern classrooms in Delhi schoolsThis country will not bow down before these corrupt people The country has decided The country will mode ahead The dreams of Baba Saheb and Bhagat Singh shall be fulfilled the chief minister saidKejriwal has come under attack from the BJP and the Congress after former Aam Aadmi Party AAP leader Kumar Vishwas accused him of supporting separatists in poll-bound PunjabKejriwal has dubbed Vishwas allegations as laughable PTI SLB DIV

New Delhi Jan 30 PTI Delhi on Sunday logged 3674 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 637 per cent while 30 more people succumbed to the viral disease according to data shared by the city health departmentWith this the national capitals caseload increased to 1827489 and the death toll climbed to 25827 the bulletin statedA total of 57686 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the city a day ago it saidThe number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28867 on January 13 The city had recorded a positivity rate of 306 per cent on January 14 the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemicIt took just 10 days for daily cases to drop below 10000On Saturday Delhi recorded 4483 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 741 per cent and 28 deathsOn Friday 4044 cases with a positivity rate of 860 per cent and 25 deaths were recorded The city logged 4291 cases with a positivity rate of 956 per cent and 34 deaths on ThursdayThe Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Thursday decided to lift the weekend curfew and the odd-even system of opening shops selling non-essential items besides allowing restaurants bars and theatres to reopen at 50 per cent capacity given the improving COVID-19 situationThe number of COVID-19 patients under home isolation stood at 16165 on Sunday down from 18536 on Saturday There are 38853 containment zones in the city the bulletin saidThere are 15428 beds for COVID-19 patients in Delhi hospitals and 1567 1016 per cent of them are occupied A total of 1772 patients are in hospitals the health departments bulletin on Saturday stated PTI SLB DIV DIV

New Delhi Jan 27 PTI A cow protection and research centre set up at Delhi Universitys Hansraj College has drawn the ire of students who claim that it has been set up at a site reserved for a womens hostelCollege principal Rama Sharma however said architects found the site unsuitable for building a hostel as it is a setback areaThe Students Federation of India SFI unit of Hansraj College alleged that a gaushala cow shelter dubbed as Swami Dayanand Cow-Protection and Research Centre has been constructed at the site reserved for the womens hostelAs colleges shut down because of the pandemic our college administration demanded full fees even though most of our families were suffering economic hardships Now imagine our surprise when we learn that while the campus has been shut the college has finished the construction of a full-fledged gaushala without any warning or discussion with the student community the SFI allegedIt said students will launch a vigorous campaign against this move It also demanded that the gaushala be pulled down and the construction of the long-awaited womens hostel be startedSharma said architects had examined the site in question and informed the college that a hostel could not be built thereArchitects had seen the site and told us that it is a setback area and a hostel cannot be constructed there The womens hostel is my dream project and architects will identify a suitable place for it she saidWe are getting a master plan of the entire college drawn up by professional architects since we want to have more classrooms and a hostel that can accommodate 100 women students she addedSharma also denied the centre was a gaushalaThere is only one cow at the centre to enable students to carry out research and it is not a gaushala she saidWe were thinking of setting up a gobar gas plant before Covid and this has been done as an experiment she addedThe principal said theirs is a DAV trust college and a havan is held every month on the campus PTI SLB DIV DIV

New Delhi Nov 29 PTI Ahead of the online open book exams OBE for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes Delhi University on Monday issued guidelines asking students not to use unfair means and to ensure that they have documentary proof in case there is a delay in uploading answer sheetsAccording to the guidelines students are supposed to submit their scripts on the OBE portal onlyAll the students are advised not to use any unfair means while writing the exam They must be very careful in writing exams a system is in place to detect copyinguse of unfair means in the examination the guidelines statedDuring the OBE in June over 350 students were caught using unfair means and as a result their paper or entire semester was cancelled they saidIf submission of scripts on the portal gets delayed beyond one hour students can use an additional one hour to upload the scripts on the OBE portal that is the 5th hour but in that case students have to keep the documentary evidences 4-5 snapshots of the delay in uploading they saidIn other words students will have three hours for writing answers plus one hour for downloading the question paper and uploading scripts and one hour for delayed submissionThe guidelines stated that results of answer scripts submitted by email may get delayed due to the verification process as had happened during the OBE in December March and JunePartially submitted answers by email would not be accepted Submission by both email and on the portal will not be accepted they saidDU will hold third fifth and seventh semester examinations for all its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes from Tuesday PTI SLB DIV DIV

New Delhi Oct 28 PTI Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that there are adequate arrangements for dengue patients in the state-run hospitals and no patient is being turned awayHe also said that majority of dengue patients in Delhi hospitals are from outside the cityJains comments came in the backdrop of reports that there was a shortage of beds for dengue patients at Safdarjung Hospital and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in the national capitalThey are Centre-run hospitals We have adequate arrangements for dengue patients in Delhi government hospitals No patients are being turned away the minister told reporters hereDelhi has reported over 1000 cases of dengue this year with more than 280 cases logged in the last week according to a civic report released on Monday Of the total number of dengue cases recorded in Delhi this season 665 were recorded in the first 23 days of this month aloneDengue cases have been rising in Delhi over the last two weeks The city recorded its first death due to the vector-borne disease on October 18You cannot compare this years situation with last year Last year there was an outbreak of coronavirus but this year the infections are lower and there are more dengue cases There were reports that Safdarjung Hospital has seen 10 dengue deaths but those people were from outside Delhi he saidJain also said that AAP MLAs and councillors are ensuring that fogging is being carried out in their areas to fight dengue PTI SLB DIV DIV

New Delhi Sep 18 PTI Over 203 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in Delhi on Saturday according to the Co-WIN portalWith this the total number of doses administered in the national capital increased to 15983257 the data on the Co-WIN portal showedOver 9487 lakh people in the 18-44 age group have received at least one dose while 4246 lakh people have been vaccinated in the 45-60 age group Over 2248 lakh people above the age of 60 have received at least one dose it saidA total of 152869 Covid vaccine doses were administered in Delhi on Friday Of these 68633 were second doses according to the Delhi governments vaccination bulletinOver 9274 lakh men and over 6704 lakh women in the city have received at least one dose of vaccine the bulletin saidDelhi received 40000 doses of Covaxin on Friday it saidOn Saturday morning Delhi had seven days worth of vaccine doses -- 1085630 of Covishield and 201280 of Covaxin -- left it said PTI SLB DIV DIV