PIB Delhi - To encourage girl students to pursue Technical Education, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has been implementing scholarship scheme namely AICTE Pragati Scholarship Scheme since 2014-15. Under the scheme, a sum of Rs. 50,000/- per annum is disbursed to selected girl students as per the following criteria.
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PIB Delhi - The Government continuously endeavours to make education more affordable and prevent commercialization of it. In this regard, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has accepted the recommendations of National Fee Committee for the maximum Tuition and Development Fee for the Programme(s) and requested all the State/ UT Governments to adhere to these recommendations. These recommendations...
PIB Delhi - The National Education Policy – 2020 has mentioned the role of Technology in Education. NEP – 2020 envisions that a rich variety of educational software, for the purposes of teaching-learning and evaluation will be developed and made available for students and teachers at all levels (para 23.4, NEP-2020). All such software will be available in all...
PIB Delhi - Education being in the concurrent list of the Constitution, majority of the schools are under the domain of the respective State and UT Governments. Hub and Spoke model of vocational education has been introduced under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme ‘Samagra Shiksha’ from the year 2021-22. A total number of 136 hub schools and 241 spoke schools...
PIB Delhi - Bhasha Sangam is a mobile app, developed in both Android and iOS platforms, to give users familiarity with common expressions of daily conversation in Scheduled Indian languages. The app has 100+ sentences, designed on different themes that allow people to learn basic conversation in 22 Indian languages, test themselves and generate online certificates. The app aims ...
PIB Delhi - Water Quality in the lower stretches of the River Ganga was found to be in an alarming situation by a team of scientists who developed the much-needed baseline of Water Quality Index (WQI) of the place. They reported a continuous deterioration of water quality. Rapid human pressure and anthropogenic activities has resulted in release of untreated...
PIB Delhi - Aniket Kanade, from Kendure village, a rain shadow area in Shirur block of Pune district with rainfed low earning farming activities, is now a pioneer fabricator of hand-tools & bullock operated agricultural tools for rural farmers in his village. He has become a changemaker of his community—thanks to his training in basic rural technology and his...
PIB Delhi - Despite the measures taken in different sectors towards improvement of air quality of Delhi-NCR, the air quality still remains in ‘Very Poor’ to ‘Severe’ category. Keeping in view the need to enforce strict actions against the deteriorating air quality of the region, the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) believes that...
PIB Delhi - The life of Mrs. Mutha Muthuvel Sambai from Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, has changed for good through training in seaweed cultivation and farming and exposure to the market demands of seaweed. Cutting out the role of the middlemen, she is now directly selling products to the entrepreneurs, thereby increasing her income by around 50 percent. Mrs. Mutha...
PIB Delhi - Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India, Prof K VijayRaghavan, highlighted the need to build upon the foundation of student exchange and individual collaboration between India and Japan to evolve to bigger missions between the two countries for addressing the demands of the entire planet and the region, at the India-Japan Science and Technology Seminar...
PIB Delhi -Para sports have been placed in the ‘Priority’ category for financial assistance by the Government and all the requisite assistance is provided for training and competitive exposure of the para athletes, as per the norms laid down for this purpose. The Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) is the recognized National Sports Federation (NSF) dealing with the para...
PIB Delhi - For boosting sports participation in the country, including the North Eastern Region and Bhagalpur, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports implements a number of Schemes aimed at broad-basing of sports and promotion of excellence in sports. As on date, 453 Khelo India Centres have been notified in 359 districts of 28 States/UTs. Under the Khelo...