-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The CBSE wants to ensure that teachers in private schools are not saddled with non-teaching work, a common complaint across the country, and will in coming days ask these institutes for staff details. The Central Board of Secondary Education, the country’s biggest school board, would issue a circular to all the around 16,000 private schools affiliated it to it to give information about the work assigned to the...
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Uniform civil code: Law panel seeks public opinion on anti-women practices -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Law Commission's exercise to formulate a Uniform Civil Code reached a critical phase as it asked the citizens to give their views on ending several religious practices and customs that had been branded anti-women in all three major religions. Sending out a list of 16 questions to gauge public opinion and the direction in which it should proceed, the Commission also asked whether to ban...
More »Indian MSMEs yet to reap the benefit of Govt. schemes, says a recent report
A recently released report shows that only a few enterprises belonging to the labour-intensive Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector could take advantage of the 205 number of public schemes (available in October 2015) of various Ministries or Departments of the Government, as listed at the website www.clusterobservatory.in. (Please click here to access the report on MSMEs and the challenges they face). Prepared by the Foundation for MSME Clusters...
More »PMO received 10 lakh RTI queries in 20 months -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister's Office has received over 1,500 petitions a day for the last 20 months. In response to a RTI query PMO revealed that it had received 10 lakh petitions — that is RTI applications, grievances, complaints — between June 1, 2014 to January 31, 2016. Gurgaon based Aseem Takyar had sought to know how many complaints and grievances were received in the PM's...
More »HRD ministry tweaks norms to push world-class institutions plan -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express The committee is meant to screen applications and shortlist institutions that deserve the world-class status. New Delhi: The Human Resource Development Ministry has tweaked the UGC regulations for setting up 20 world-class institutions, just weeks after the proposal hit a roadblock with the Solicitor General of India objecting to the unlimited powers of the proposed empowered experts committee. The committee is meant to screen applications and shortlist institutions that...
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