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Calcutta Mayor's Call To Realty
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Rs 35L Project To Preserve Wetlands
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West Bengal Minister Offers Free Land To Mamata For Extending The Metro Corridor
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Railway Seeks Pvt Help To Develop 93 Stations
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Five New Projects Approved Under JNNRUM
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Business
Manufacturing Land To Avoid Controversy
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Bengal Shipyard Project Yet To Overcome Land Hurdle
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Bengal Says Will Complete Land Allotment To Three Steel Plants By Sept
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Bengal Says Will Complete Land Allotment To Three Steel Plants By Sept
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Govt Likely To Corporatise 12 Major Ports Soon
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After BlackBerry, Govt Turns Heat On Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
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Going Online: IT Majors Take Tech Route To Hiring
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All Govt Services To Be At Your Mouse-Tip Soon
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Improving Efficiency: Indian BPOs Work At Client Sites To Reduce Costs Without Job Cuts
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NABARD Sanctions Rs 284.5 Crore For Rural Infrastructure In West Bengal
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WB Govt Sanctions Rs 10 Crore To Make Beliaghata Canal
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Infra Issues Halt IT Hub's Progress In City
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Centre Welcome To Acquire Land For Pending NH Projects In Bengal: Govt
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Race To Build Airport City
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Tourism
Low Cost Ganga River Cruise from Kolkata to Patna to Start in October
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West Bengal Identifies New Tourism Spots
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Tour Agents Plan To Make Monsoon A Visit Season
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Salt Lake Bheris To Be New Eco-Tourism Hubs
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Bengal Targets River Tourism For Growth
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Realtors Slapped Benami Notice
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Rs.400 Crore For Housing For Urban Poor In West Bengal
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Right Time To Bargain For A Better Price
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Forum Projects To Invest Rs 1,000 Crore in 3 Years
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India's Commercial Space To Face The Problem Of Plenty
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AC Travel For Kolkata Metro Commuters Soon
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Oldest Kolkata Metro Railway Service Is Gearing Up With A Major Revamp Of Its Security System
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Kolkata Metro Rail Introduces Integrated Security Plan
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Metro Rail Ticketing Chugs On A Hi-Tech Track In Kolkata
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Metro To Run Full Stretch By July
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Kolkata On Brink Of Civic Disaster: World Bank Study
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West Bengal Govt Sanctions Rs 10 Crore To Make Beliaghata Canal
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Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Restores Green Turfs
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West Bengal Declares 11 Districts Drought-Affected
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Volunteers To Keep Watch On City Green Cover
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Health
City Hospital Starts Air Ambulance Service
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KMC Mulls Health Cover For 11.5L BPL Families
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KMC To Upgrade Maternity Homes
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Touts Tighten Grip On SSKM Hospital
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Mobile Healthcare May Soon Become Real
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Education
Edify To Set Up 7 Schools In West Bengal and India's North East region
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School To Spare The Rod, Cut Marks
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IIM Calcutta Fellow Programme In Management (FPM) Admission 2011
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IIT-Kharagpur Hopes To Get Cabinet Nod For Medical School
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Inter School Squash Tournament Launched In Kolkata
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Calcutta Football League Premier Division To Start Tomorrow
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Govt Plans To Set Up 4 Residential Sports Schools
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Bengal To Provide Sports Stipend To 15,000 Children To Promote Sporting Talents
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West Bengal Holds Kickboxing Championship To Train Teenagers
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PWD Handed List of 34 Roads For Upkeep
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Link Road To Bypass South Choke-Point
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Roads Has Become A Nightmare For City Dwellers And Pedestrian
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Car Breakdown Or Accident On Toll Highway? Seek Free Help
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Kolkata's Heritage Sold For Rs 12 cr
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Italian Help To Revive Kolkata Glory ,Identify Heritage Spots For Restoration
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Calcutta Pocket Is Poised To Deck Up Its Slice of Awadhi History ,Decide To Spend Rs 42 lakh
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E India's biggest trading hub in Kolkata gutted, Damages Estimated To Run Into Crores
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Bengal's Jain Connection Goes Back 1000 Years
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IMD Plans To Offer Weather Updates On Mobile Phones
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Calling Customer Care? It May Not Be Toll Free
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Why You Will Have To Live With SMS Ads
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Landlines Fast Disappearing From Kolkata
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Five Years After Ban, Kolkata Rickshaw Pullers Yet To Be Rehabilitated
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Welfare Scheme For Transport Workers
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75 Pairs Of New Trains Introduced During Durga Puja: Mamata
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Subsidy For Transporters Of Re One per litre On Diesel Used
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Govt Refuses To Hike Transport Fares
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Power Tariffs Hiked In Bengal
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Rural Houses To Have Electricity By June 2011
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Talks To Set Up Thermal Units At Power Plants
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`Hike In Green Power Tariff Will Bring In More Projects'
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Water
DVC To Increase Water Discharge To Save Paddy Cultivation
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Hooghly Water For Rajarhat On A Trial Basis
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Water Scarcity Likely To Hit Haldia Soon, Courtesy Citu Strike
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Education
Edify To Set Up 7 Schools In West Bengal and India's North East region
By ugesh sarkar, Section Education Posted on Fri Sep 03, 2010 at 12:12:30 AM EST
Edify Education is planning to start seven schools in West Bengal and India's North East region.
Aiming to provide `international' education, the company is assessing locations like Kolkata, Guwahati, Siliguri, Burdwan, Durgapur, Asansol and Kharagpur in Eastern region of India to set-up schools on franchisee model.
Exploring franchising options in the region, Edify Education has already established two `Edify Kids' schools at Salt Lake and Nagerbazar in Kolkata for academic year 2010-11.
Edify Education, promoted by DRS Group, commenced its operations in 2010 - 11 academic year by setting-up 3 schools in Ranipet (Tamil Nadu), Nagpur and Amaravati (Maharashtra).
Source: Sify.com Edify to set up schools in WB, NE
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School To Spare The Rod, Cut Marks
By ugesh sarkar, Section Education Posted on Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 03:27:40 AM EST
St James' School is going to hit unruly students where its hurts the most -- their annual marksheet. It will cut marks for every mischief -- 5% for bunking class or 20% for thrashing a fellow student. For more serious offences, the penalty is relegation.
In times of cut-throat competition for seats, every mark slashed will cost students dearly. One who scores 90% in aggregate might end up with just 70% on his marksheet. The school authorities believe it will be a stronger deterrent than corporal punishment.
In fact, from the next session, St James' is introducing 'discipline' as a subject in the curriculum -- perhaps a first in the city. The thumb rule: behave like a brat and get docked, behave well and get grace marks.
Offences have been placed under two categories. A major offence will be punished with the deduction of 15-20% marks from the aggregate and for minor offences, a student will lose 5-10% marks.
Stealing, misbehaving with teachers, cheating in examinations, bullying other kids frequently, using abusive language inside the classroom and damaging school property will also be treated as major offences. The harshest punishment will be denial of promotion to the next class.Minor offences, that include bunking classes, lying to teachers, habitually coming late to school, irregular attendance and not bringing books according to the time table. Habitual offenders will get 'compound
Source: Times Of India School to spare the rod, cut marks
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IIM Calcutta Fellow Programme In Management (FPM) Admission 2011
By sakshi sinha, Section Education Posted on Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 02:16:48 AM EST
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, West Bengal, has invited the applications for admission into the Fellow Programme in Management offered with the following specialization, for the upcoming session 2011.
Admissions are done on the basis of Common Admission Test (CAT) or depending on chosen specializations, alternative tests in lieu of the CAT as specified in the table given below, followed by an interview to be held in late March/early April 2011. Applicant is required to have taken the appropriate test(s) no earlier than January 24, 2009, and the test score(s) should be valid on January 24, 2011.

Date of Exam
CAT Date - October 27, 2010 till November 24, 2010 (Candidates with the following qualification are exempted for appearing CAT: an applicant who is a graduate of any one of the two-year full-time Postgraduate (PG) programmes of any one of the Indian Institutes of Management with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of no less than 6.00/9.00 (or its equivalent), or a degree-holder of the PGDBM Programme of IIM Calcutta with a CGPA of no less than 6.5/9.00 does not need to take any Admission Test. Applicant has to pay the application fee, and meet the application deadline. After submission of application forms, the selection procedure followed for such a candidate will be the same to that of all other candidates).
Test Centers
N/A
Fee
See the prospectus
How to Apply
Interested candidates can download the application form from the IIM Calcutta's official website: http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/FPM/. One can obtain the same in person from the Fellow Programme Office, IIM Calcutta, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata 700104. The duly filled forms must be submitted along with a crossed DD of Rs 300 payable to Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, in a bank of Kolkata. SC/ST/OBC applicant need not pay the application fee. They have to send an attested photocopy of his/her SC/ST/OBC certificate. For each area of specialization applied for, two letters of recommendation in the prescribed format are required. Blank forms for recommendation letters, and instructions on how to return them, are contained in the application forms. For further details one can visit the institute's official website: http://www.iimcal.ac.in/.
Note: Candidates applying for two areas of specialization are required to submit two separate application forms. However, a single payment of the application fee of Rs 300 will be sufficient for each applicant, as long as they submit the two application forms at the same time.
Last Date of submitting Application Form
January 24, 2011
Contact address:
IIM Calcutta
KolkataWest Bengal
Source: highereducationinindia.com IIM Calcutta FPM Admission 2011
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IIT-Kharagpur Hopes To Get Cabinet Nod For Medical School
By Shashank, Section Education Posted on Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 02:29:59 AM EST
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-K) might finally get a go ahead with its plans to set up a medical school and hospital.Since it signed a $50-million MoU with the University of California, San Diego, last year to set up a 750-bed state-of-the-art hospital and research centre at the IIT, the institute had been pursuing the case with the Union HRD Ministry.
"We are talking to the health ministry. The IIT-K proposal will be presented before the Cabinet for the approval of an amendment to the IIT statute. It could take 2-3 months," said Pratima Dikshit, director of technical education, Union HRD ministry.
"We are waiting for the permission from the central government. Union HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal, is very keen on this. Now, it will go to the Union Cabinet for its approval," said AK Majumdar, deputy director of IIT-K.
The existing IIT Act that governs the Indian Institutes of Technology does not allow the institutes to branch out into other streams. "The Act has to be amended by Parliament, which we hope, will be done at the earliest," said Majumdar.
Source: Business-standard By Goutam Ghosh IIT-Kharagpur hopes to get Cabinet nod for medical school
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Build A Great Wall of Books
By ugesh sarkar, Section Education Posted on Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 01:58:48 AM EST
Calcutta will get its own great wall on Teachers Day -- a wall for a cause made not of bricks and mortar but of books and compassion.
The Aviva Great Wall of Education, presented by The Telegraph, will be built at City Centre (Salt Lake) from September 1 to 5.
Schools and citizens can donate books at the site to be built into a wall and then distributed among children who can't afford to buy them.
The first time Calcutta got to hear about the event was at The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence on Saturday, a fitting platform for the announcement of an initiative to support the pursuit of education against all odds.
Barry O'Brien, the convener of the awards, announced the Aviva Great Wall of Education and appealed to schools to donate books for the cause. "The Telegraph Education Foundation supports the endeavour," said O' Brien.
The book donation drive for underprivileged children was launched by Aviva India in Delhi on November 11, 2009, national education day, and a wall with over 1,23,000 books was built.
Source: The Telegraph By CHANDREYEE CHATTERJEE Build A Great Wall of Books
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BESU To Set Up Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Park
By Shashank, Section Education Posted on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 03:19:26 AM EST
The Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) will set up a Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park to commercialise technology and research outputs of its faculties.
BESU officials have already approached the state government for the allotment 20 acres of land to set up the park. A workshop was organised today by the civil engineering department in association with Queen's University, Belfast, UK and Institute of Environment Management and Studies, Jamshedpur on `capacity building for technological solution and training to improve groundwater resources management in arsenic affected areas of Eastern India'.
While addressing the workshop, Mr KJ Nath, chairman of the state arsenic task force, said that the university has undertaken various research activities to remove arsenic from groundwater, but the technology has to reach the market.
Mr Nath stressed on the need to commercialise the research outputs of the faculties.
However, Prof. Ajay Ray, Vice Chancellor of BESU said that for teachers, who are involved in research activities on top of teaching, it is not possible to take up their research outputs to the market.
Source: The Statesman BESU to set up science & technology entrepreneurship park
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IIM-Calcutta Goes Green, Introduce A New Course On Eco-Friendly Technology
By akansha, Section Education Posted on Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 10:51:23 PM EST
The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) is all set to introduce a new course on eco-friendly technology in its post graduate programme for executives from the 2010-11 session.
"To meet the worldwide thrust on eco-friendly technologies, IIM-C has introduced a new course titled 'green manufacturing' for its Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (PGPEX-VLM) starting 2010-11," IIM-C Director Shekhar Chaudhuri said here Wednesday.
PGPEX-VLM is a one-year programme jointly conducted by IIM-C, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Kanpur and IIT-Madras to impart skill-based training to potential middle-level managers in the manufacturing industry.
"The 'green manufacturing' course will cover all dimensions of green manufacturing and technologies starting from green supply chain management, green marketing etc, non-conventional energy sources, concept of 3R (reuse, recycle, reproduce) and the principle of energy and resource conservancy," said Chaudhuri while addressing the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BNCCI).
Experts from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) would also conduct sessions on the green manufacturing course.
Source: indiaedunews.net IIM-Calcutta goes green
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New Medical Colleges For Bengal, Creation Of 4000 Posts, Rehabilitation Projects Also Approved
By sakshi sinha, Section Education Posted on Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 12:26:07 AM EST
The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Cabinet on Wednesday took decisions on a gamut of subjects including the setting up of three medical colleges, a new post-graduate institute for paediatric science, the rehabilitation project for people affected by subsidence of coal-mines and the creation of around 4000 new posts.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Minister of State for information Soumendranath Bera said: "decisions have been taken on some crucial issues".
Elaborating, he said the government has approved the setting up of three medical colleges, one each in North 24 Parganas, Malda and Murshidabad. Initially, 33 teachers would be appointed for these colleges.
Alongside, a new institute for the study of post-graduate paediatric science would be set up in the city by merging the B.C. Roy Memorial Institute with the existing child hospital also named after the former Chief Minister of the State. The late B.C. Roy, a reputed physician, is widely regarded as the architect of modern Bengal.
Mr. Bera said the meeting approved the creation of 4000 new posts. Of this, 3345 would be that of teachers in the secondary and higher-secondary levels where 400 secondary schools are proposed to be upgraded to higher-secondary status.
Source: The Hindu New medical colleges for Bengal
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NIIT Launches GNIIT For Engineers In Kolkata
By ugesh sarkar, Section Education Posted on Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 11:42:40 PM EST
NIIT today launched its industry- endorsed multiple track GNIIT programme for engineers in Kolkata, with the aim of enhancing graduates' employment prospects.
Speaking at the launch of the GNIIT programme for engineers, NIIT President-Global Individual Learning Solutions G Raghavan said that it was specifically designed for engineering students, with emphasis on their curriculum and career aspirations.
Justifying the launch of the programme, NIIT sources quoted NASSCOM's latest projections that said the IT industry's headcount addition is expected to double this year to touch 2,00,000 new employees.
NASSCOM also said the IT BPO market is expected to grow by 13-15 per cent and the overall domestic market by 15-17 per cent.
The three-year GNIIT for engineers programme was designed to be pursued alongside graduation. The criteria for enrollment to the programme is admission to an engineering college for a BE or BTech.
Source: www.indolink.co NIIT launches GNIIT for engineers in Kolkata
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Rs.2.31 Lakh Crore In 3 Years For RTE - Pranab
By sakshi sinha, Section Education Posted on Mon Aug 09, 2010 at 12:45:29 AM EST
The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry would be allocated Rs 2.31 lakh crore over the next three years to establish infrastructure for implementing the Right to Education (RTE) law, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday.
"The HRD Minister (Kapil Sibal) has said Rs.2,31,000 crore will be required for implementing RTE in the next three years for appointment of teachers, setting up schools and building of infrastructure. I said the money will be provided," he said at a seminar in the city.
Sibal recently said here there are many issues in the implementation of the RTE law. "We are meeting the principals and all the stakeholders on August 14 to find out the problems and discuss the way out," Sibal said.
Source: indiaedunews.net Rs.2.31 lakh crore in 3 years for RTE - Pranab
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Journalism?, Calcutta University Is In No Hurry!
By ugesh sarkar, Section Education Posted on Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 03:50:39 AM EST
Journalism, entrants to the profession are told, is literature in a hurry. But Calcutta University (CU) is no hurry to produce journalists, that's for sure.
It's been a year since the examinations were conducted, in August 2009, for the degree course in Journalism and Mass Communication CU offers, but the results for MA (Part I and II) are yet to be published. And then, journalists are expected to meet deadlines.
Prof. Tapati Basu, head of the department, claimed the delay is due to a dearth of teachers. Three posts of lecturers have been lying vacant for the past five years while Prof. SN Bera, a gamekeeper turned poacher, as it were, given the inherent conflict between an independent Press and the propensity of governments to control it, is currently on leave handling more onerous responsibilities as West Bengal's minister of state for information and cultural affairs. A selection committee was formed two years back to appoint a lecturer, but nobody "suitable" was found, said Prof. Basu who runs the department on her own with the help of guest lecturers.
Whilst that may not amount to much in the departmental league tables, the Journalism and Mass Communication department has, over the past few years, certainly acquired a well-deserved reputation of being at the very top of the university when it comes to inordinately delayed results over the past few years. Some efforts were apparently made to hurry up the evaluation procedure, but these too have come to naught. For example, the assessment procedure for the academic year ending 2010 was revised by CU for the Journalism and Mass Communication department. The "double evaluation" system was done away with and the notion of "review" was introduced. Thus, answer scripts of Part I examinees were evaluated just once. But the results are still late by a whole year.
Source: The Statesman Journalism?, Calcutta University Is In No Hurry!
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Primary Board Exam: Top 600 To Get Scholarships
By sakshi sinha, Section Education Posted on Wed Aug 04, 2010 at 02:30:46 AM EST
English to be a compulsory subject; e other papers can be answered in Bengali d or Hindi in the examinations to be conducted by the Primary Education Development Board
The top 600 students in the examinations to be organised by the Primary Education Development Board (PEDB) will receive a scholarship of Rs 1,200 per annum at the state level and Rs 600 per annum at the district level. The students will have to pay a minimum of Rs15 to appear for the 400-mark terminal examinations, which include subjects like English, Mathematics, History, Geography, Science and vernacular subject, the results of which will be declared in two months.
English will be compulsory for all students although the other papers can be answered either in Bengali or Hindi.
"We are even thinking of introducing Urdu as the writing medium", said PEDB secretary Ratan Laskar.
The unique concept has been largely accepted as the number of students appearing for the examinations has drastically increased from 20,000 in the first year (1992) to a walloping 350,000 in 2010. The examination is held in the morning before school hours and before the beginning of the new session.
Earlier, these used to be held in February but due to session changes, this year they will be held from November 22 to 26. There are around 3,000 centres in West Bengal where these examinations are held, based on the same syllabus provided by primary schools.
Source: The Indian Express Primary board exam: Top 600 to get scholarships
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3 New Medical Colleges To Come Up In State
By ugesh sarkar, Section Education Posted on Tue Aug 03, 2010 at 02:38:48 AM EST
Three new medical colleges will start functioning from the academic session in 2011. State health minister Suryakanta Mishra made this announcement in the Assembly on Wednesday.
The new medical colleges will be opened in Malda, Murshidabad and North 24 Parganas. Besides opening these new medical colleges, 695 seats at the undergraduate level are also being added to the existing ones.
Dr Mishra also informed the House that the medical practitioners who are not Indian citizens but have registered their names with the West Bengal Medical Council will lose their registration to practise.
"We have decided to set up three medical colleges with intake capacity of 100 each at Kamarhati in North 24 Parganas, Malda and Berhampore in Murshidabad. We will also increase 695 seats at the undergraduate level in the existing medical colleges," Dr Mishra said.
At present, 11 medical colleges in the state have intake capacity of 1,355 in total at the MBBS level.
Source: The Asian Age 3 new medical colleges to come up in state
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Visva Bharati University Reduces Fee Hike By 50 Percent
By sakshi sinha, Section Education Posted on Sun Aug 01, 2010 at 10:57:26 PM EST
Bowing down to the students' demands, the authorities of Visva Bharati University decided to decrease the hiked tuition fees by 50 percent.
The university, set up by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, had been experiencing unrest for long as the students were on an indefinite agitation to protest the hike.
University spokesperson Amitabha Chowdhury said, "We have decided to cut down the students' fees by 50 percent after discussing it with the students' representatives".
"The admission fees will also be reduced for the internal students (who are already studying in the university). However, the external students will have to pay their fees on the basis of newly implemented rate. The students have also expressed their satisfaction over the authorities' decision and we are expecting that normalcy will be restored soon," he added
Terming it a "victory for the students", student leader, Anupam Hazra said the authorities have also assured to reconsider the tuition fees for the external students during next month.
"If the authorities do not think for the external students, then we would launch a greater movement," he warned.
The varsity faced the students' ire after it decided to hike fees in June this year. The students' unions called indefinite shut down in phases to protest the move.
Source: indiaedunews.net Visva Bharati reduces fee hike by 50 percent
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West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) Final Semester Results 2010 Declared
By ugesh sarkar, Section Education Posted on Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 11:21:58 PM EST
WBUT Final Semester Results 2010 Declared
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West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), Kolkata, West Bengal, has announced the various undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) course final semester examination results on July 27, 2010. Results are published in the University's official website: <a href="http://www.wbut.net/">http://www.wbut.net/</a>
Candidates can check the following undergraduate UG & PG course final semester examination results 2010 by logging in the aforementioned website. Moreover, the Grade Cards will be dispatched on and from August 9, 2010 after 14.00 hrs.
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Source: updates.highereducationinindia.com<a href=http://updates.highereducationinindia.com/2010/wbut-final-semester-results-2010-3943.php> WBUT Final Semester Results 2010 Declared</a>
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