IBM campus placement ended in IPS College

Gwalior. Campus placement organized by one of the world’s well renounced company IBM ended in IPS College. Students participated in large number in order to get best recruitment in the company; placement was open for outsider’s students too.

Company started the placement procedure by informing the students about the company and its working. More then 700 students from IPS College and various other colleges from cities like Datia, Bhopal etc. also  participated in this recruitment process. First students have to go through group discussion and then personal interview. 

Selection procedure was carried out till late night and selected candidates were given offer letter on the spot. Selected candidates will be joining Bangluru office in the month of June. For this remarkable achievement IPS’s Director Dr. Arun Kumar Tyagi, A.K. Kaul, Nishtha Tarneja congratualed the selected students.      

Youth poetry competition ended in IMT College

Gwalior. Youth poetry competition ended in IMT group of institution where young poets participated with full energy and enthusiasm. Event was organized by Young Professional Students Welfare Association.

Chief Guest P.C. tiwari inaugurated the event and first poetry was presented by a 12th standard student Shirali Runwal, and then many other young poets burn the stage with their wonderful poetry, But it was Shriali Tiwar who took the show by winning first prize, second position went to Dilip Singh Chauhan and third was captured by Shivangi Sharma. 
Jury members Dr. Shradha Saexna and Dr. Veena Shrivastav had a real tough time in deciding the winners as all the participants were up to the mark. On this occasion IMT’s executive director Manoj Sigh Kushwah, Young India Welfare Association’s President Ankit Singh and secretary Trilo Singh Parmar were also present during the event.      

HC order to frame guideline for handicapped medical students

Mumbai: High court has ordered Medical Council of India to frame guidelines for assessment of disability of candidates to determine their fitness for pursuing graduate or post-graduate medical courses.

HC observed this while hearing  a petition filed by Dr Annasaheb Kadam. Kadam has completed his MBBS degree course and now wants to pursue a post-graduate medical course. Division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and justice Niteen Jamdar observed that it is necessary to frame guidelines for physically handicapped candidates.

No loud speaker permission required for educational activities: HC

Mumbai: High Court has observed that if any area within a 100m periphery of schools is designated as a silence zone, the institutions will not require any prior permission to use loud speaker for educational activities.

A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice NM Jamdar nullified  decision of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) declaring Raja Shivaji Vidyasankul at Dadar as a silence zone, the HC said the school does not require prior permission from police and local planning authority for school-related activities, yet school have to obtain permission for commercial activities. 

Bench gave this order while hearing petition filed by city-based Indian Education Society. The institution had approached the HC challenging the corporation’s decision to declare one of their schools, Raja Shivaji Vidyasankul at Dadar, as a silence zone.

HC directed Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to clarify its stand on impracticability of minimum standards for residential and silence zones. The court has given the MoEF time up to June 22 for responding to the observation.

Sibal expresses happiness over SC verdict on RTE

New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal expressed happiness at the Supreme Court verdict upholding the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act of 2009 saying it has brought clarity and put all controversies to rest.

Sibal said litigation in court should never be looked as a victory or defeat, especially when the government is involved because what government was looking for from this litigation was clarity because it has an impact on millions of people.

“What the court has given us today is clarity on the issue so that all controversies are set to rest. When the controversies are set to rest, our vision of education moves forward. So we are very happy that all controversies are set to rest and there is a clarity,” Sibal said.

On the Apex court agreeing with the provision of 25 per cent free seats to the poor in government and private unaided schools uniformly across the country, the Minister said it was one the biggest issues involved in the matter.

“One of the biggest issues involved was 25 per cent reservation applies to private schools or not which is also upheld by SC and it also does not apply to minority institutions. That controversy is also set to rest,” he said.

By a majority view, a three-judge bench of Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swantanter Kumar said the RTE act will apply uniformly to government and unaided private schools except unaided private minority schools.

However, in his dissenting opinion, Justice Radhakrishnan took the view that the act would not apply to both unaided private schools as also minority institutions which do not receive any aid or grant from the government.

Employees in India may get lower salary hike in 2012: Survey

New Delhi: Employees across corporate India are expected to get a lower average salary hike of 11.54 per cent in 2012 compared to last year as companies are grappling with sluggish economic activities, says a survey.

As per the survey conducted by HR consulting firm Right Step Consulting, the salary hikes for India would decline to 11.54 per cent in 2012 from 11.89 per cent in 2011.

“After having grown at the rate of 8.4 per cent over the last two years the Indian economy slowed down considerably in the year ended March 2012 and the lower than expected growth in economy at only 6.9 per cent is reflecting in the Indian corporate sector's lower outlook for compensation hikes for its employees,” Right Step Consulting Director Vishal Bhargava said.

The drop in salary hikes is expected across both services and manufacturing sectors. While manufacturing sector is expecting a salary hike of 11.58 per cent as against 11.91 per cent in 2011, the service space is expecting a salary increase of 11.49 per cent compared to 11.87 per cent last year.

“Drop in salary hikes in manufacturing sector was expected given that sector's estimated growth rate in 2011-12 at 3.9 per cent is a drop of almost 50 per cent as compared to 7.6 per cent in the previous year,” Bhargava said.

Among the sector, prominent core sectors such as power, steel, mining and construction are all expecting a lower salary hike.

“Besides, the drop in expected salary hikes in services is on account of sharp drop in telecom and drops in sectors like retail, IT software, BFSI and travel/hospitality,” he added.

The survey, conducted among 2,326 Indian companies across sectors, said decline in salary hikes are expected across both foreign MNCs and Indian companies.

“Drop in foreign MNCs is marginally higher from 12.17 per cent in 2011 to 11.73 per cent in 2012 a decline of 44 basis points as compared to Indian companies which are expecting a drop from 11.71 per cent to 11.41 per cent a drop of 30 basis points,” Bhargava said.

Reflecting economic uncertainties and slow down in the home markets of foreign MNCs which is an additional concern for their India operations.

Kerala schoolgirl's solo exhibition in Delhi

New Delhi: She is still within the portals of a school, but when 15-year-old Varsha Renjit from Kerala wields a paintbrush, she can create an incredible tapestry of colours and emotions on the canvas a fact that has allowed her to brush shoulders with the likes of legend and Padmashree Anjolie Ela Menon.

Varsha who has just completed class X is showcasing 40 select paintings in her solo exhibition “Raindrops” at the Lalit Kala Akademi here that was inaugurated by Anjolie Ela Menon.

“Varsha has got a distinct accent when she uses colours. Some her compositions are very strong, not expected from a girl of her age. She proves that she has arrived,” says Menon.

“This exhibition reminds me of my first exhibition which I conducted in Delhi, in 1958. I was also 15 years like Varsha. M F Husain inaugurated the show. I am very optimistic about Varsha's future” added Menon.

The current exhibition is the young artist's seventh solo exhibition in the India and the first in Delhi.

“Varsha has a keen sense of observation, fine details of life around her do not escape her attention. These experiences are translated on to the canvas in terms of colour” says Manisha Patil, professor of Art History at Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai.

The 40 exhibited works are inspired by nature and the artist employs a vivid and energetic colour palette with consummate ease, building up intriguing textural areas in the process, layered with multiple meanings.

“Much of her work stems from the subconscious,reminiscent of the paintings of Masson or the non representational style of Kandinsky. At times there are shades of Pollock's gestural paintings. She is still too young to have formulated her own identity as a painter.

In the future, guided by sound academic training, enriching her knowledge of the art world and enlarging her vision, Varsha has the potential to go far,” says Patil.

The school going Varsha says, “I started painting when I was in Grade II to fill the void created by the demise of my grandfather.”

As imaginations kept coming to her without much ado, shattering the boundaries of her pain, Varsha started wielding her paintbrush with a rare sensibility, using rainbow colours to fill canvases and acrylic giving shape to her subtle moods.

After her solo exhibition in 2006, in Thiruvanthapuram and since then she has held similar shows at Kochi, Kozhikode and Mumbai, before stopping over at Delhi.

“I have always wanted to think out of the box,” says Varsha who likes experimenting with colours.

Along with the exhibition a book titled “Raindrops” was also brought out in 2010, depicting her journey as a painter from the early age.

“Moods guide me decide on the topics and canvases. I like to paint something which comes from within, rather than mimicking something in the outer world,” she says.

Among all the colours she uses lavishly on her works, pink and purple are her favourites. “They give a lot of energy. Each wall in my room is a different shade of these colours. I live with colours,” says the young artist.

SC uphold constitutional validity of RTE Act

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act, 2009, which mandates 25 per cent free seats to the poor in government and private unaided schools uniformly across the country.

By a majority view, a three-judge bench of Chief Justice S H Kapadia and justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar said the Act will apply uniformly to government and unaided private schools except unaided private minority schools.

However, in his dissenting opinion, Justice Radhakrishnan took the view that the Act would not apply to both unaided private schools as also minority institutions which do not receive any aid or grant from the government.

Justice Radhakrishnan's view was overruled by justices Kapadia and Swatanter Kumar who took the stand that the Act would be applicable even to unaided private schools.

The apex court clarified that its judgement will come into force from today and, hence, it will not apply to admissions granted after the enactment of the legislation.

In other words, the apex court said the judgement will only have a prospective affect and not retrospective affect. Upholding the provisions of the law, the apex court said the impugned act should be construed as “child specific”.

The three-judge bench had reserved its verdict on August 3, last year on a batch of petitions by private unaided institutions which had contended that the Act violates the rights of private educational institutions under Article 19(1)(g) which provided autonomy to private managements to run their institutions without governmental interference.

During the marathon arguments in the case which went for many months, the Centre had defended the law, saying it was aimed at uplifting the socially and economically weaker sections of the society.

The Centre had emphasised the need to delink merit and talent from social and economic differences among different sections of society and said that the Act calls for “moving towards composite classrooms with children from diverse backgrounds, rather than homogeneous and exclusivist schools”.

The main petitioner Society for Unaided Private Schools, Rajasthan, and a host of associations representing various private schools, had questioned the validity of the Act on the ground that it impinged on their rights to run the educational institutions.

The law was brought by introducing Article 21(A) in the Constitution which says the state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children between six and 14 years in such a manner as the state may, by law, determine.

The petitions had contended that the RTE Act was “unconstitutional” and “violative” of fundamental rights. According to the petitioners, Section 3 of the Act imposed an absolute mandate on all schools, including private unaided and minority institutions, to admit without any choice each and every child whosoever comes to take admission in the schools in the neighbourhood.

Many Andhra teachers balk at spot valuation

HYDERABAD: The SSC spot valuation seems to be facing a serious problem with several teachers expressing their unwillingness to take up the job citing lack of proper facilities. A day after the directorate of government examinations announced the schedule for spot valuation, as many as 150 teachers sent their leave letters to the DEOs concerned seeking exemption from the duties. The spot valuation is scheduled to start on April 13.

Over 12 lakh students took the SSC examinations, which concluded on Tuesday. A total of 21,139 assistant examiners (primary evaluators), 3,525 chief examiners and 7,050 special scrutinisers are required to evaluate and scrutinise the answer scripts. "Even if 5% teachers are absent, it is going to affect the evaluation," officials said.

Private school officials said every year about 20% of teachers give a miss to spot valuation citing various reasons. "There were several errors in evaluation of answer scripts last time. We had brought them to the notice of the officials of the department of school education. Since the future of several students is at stake, the department should not allow teachers to stay away from evaluation duties," said M A Kareemuddin, principal of a city-based school.

Officials of directorate of school education had issued a statement on Monday allowing teachers with critical medical condition to opt out of evaluation duties. However, officials clearly stated that if they found the reasons for taking leave were not genuine, they would reject them.

Interestingly, it is not just teachers from private schools who sought exemption from evaluation duties. "Some teachers are averse to attending to duties due to lack of proper facilities at spot valuation centres. More than a dozen centres lacked basic facilities like fans, drinking water last year," said N Narayana, president, United Teachers' Front, which represents government school teachers in the state.

However, officials of directorate of government examinations deny the allegations and said that each spot valuation centres will have facilities like canteen, water and fans this year. The directorate clarified that it had a reserve list of teachers who were eligible for evaluation duties to replace those who failed to turn up. "We have made it clear that only those with serious medical problems will be allowed to stay away from the spot valuation. No one will be exempted from evaluation without proper medical proof," said Manmada Reddy, director of government examinations.

He added that stringent departmental action would be taken against teachers taking leave without a valid reason.

Poor school students quota: Supreme Court to deliver verdict on Thursday

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will Thursday pronounce its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging  the constitutional validity of the right to education law that requires private schools to earmark 25 percent seats for poor students. 

The judgment, reserved Aug 3, 2011 after a prolonged hearing, would be pronounced by a bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S.P. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar. 

There will be two judgments one by the Chief Justice Kapadia and other by Justice Radhakrishnan. 

A batch of petitions by Society for Unaided Private Schools, Independent Schools Federation of India and others had contested the provision in the law under which they had to reserve 25 percent seats for economically weaker sections in their schools. 

The schools contended that the reservation of 25 percent seats for the children from vulnerable sections of society violated their right to run educational institution without the state's interference. 

The schools' contention that the reservation for poor students would drain their resources was contested by the government promised to reimburse the money spend by them of these students. 

Materials for the future

University of Liverpool, UK, is inviting students from India to join engineers and scientists in the development of new materials for medical applications, product development and manufacturing systems. 

Through its two postgraduate degree programmes, including advanced manufacturing systems and technology, and advanced chemical sciences (nanoscale with materials chemistry), the university will support students in gaining knowledge and skills that they need to pursue careers in the manufacturing and engineering industry, as well as medical professions. 

The one-year postgraduate course in advanced manufacturing systems and technology will show students how to become an expert in using technology, management and systems to create competitive, value-adding products for industry use. Also, the advanced chemical sciences (nanoscale with materials chemistry) programme allows students to develop their own postgraduate degree course based on students' interests in the area of chemistry. 

Researchers from across the faculty of science and engineering, health and life sciences, and humanities and social sciences have come together as part of the university's new materials for the future research theme. 

The team of researchers will address techniques for the investigation of biological systems, protection of physical structures, and the development of new energy-saving products. 

Students wanting to study materials at Liverpool will work with researchers at the Surface Science Research Centre, where scientists have recently recreated the first moments of water condensing on matter - a process vital for the formation of clouds in the atmosphere. 

Students interested in medical applications will also be able to work with the Centre for Materials and Structures, where engineers are working on the development of selective laser melting for the production of prosthetic implants for the human body. 

Both courses start in September 2012 and students are required to have completed a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university with a minimum first division qualification. Students should have English language skills at IELTS 6.5 with minimum 5.5 in each component for most programmes. Fees for 2012 are £14,850. 

For more information about the course, visit http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/international/courses/ 

Courtesy: Myeducationtimes.com

IITs object to common entrance test roll-out from next yr, seek further talks

NEW DELHI: The government's plan to introduce the common entrance test (CET) for engineering from 2013 hit a roadblock on Wednesday, with the faculty representatives of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) asking for the proposal to be put on hold till there are further discussions. 

When asked about the meeting, HRD minister Kapil Sibal only said that it went off well. 

The minister and senior HRD officials met with IIT directors and chairpersons and representatives of the All India IIT Faculty Federation (AIIFF) on Wednesday for the first time after the tech institutes expressed concerns about the new system that is expected to be implemented from next year. 

The federation passed a unanimous resolution that was given to the HRD minister expressing ``grave concern'' that a new test for admission to IIT was being ``thrust'' upon them without allowing enough time for discussion or critical review and acceptance in IIT Senate. The resolution also said that implementation  of the changes in the existing entrance tests should be kept on hold until reports are obtained, consolidated and accepted by the Senate. 

AIIFF representatives said that the meeting was a ``fruitful'' one and more discussions were likely on the issue. 

Significantly, the decision has the approval of IIT Council that comprises of IIT directors and is binding on the institutes. However opposition from the AIIFF could put the ministry's plans could be put in serious jeopardy and even delay the 2013 roll-out. 

The CET aims to serve as a single national entrance exam for admission to engineering and science courses in centrally funded institutions such as the 15 IITs, 30 NITs and a host of other technical institutes. 

One of the significant objections was to the proposed weightage given to class XII marks. The new system will give class XII marks at least 40% weightage, while the test score will make up the remaining 60%. So far, the Class XII results have no bearing on the IIT-JEE score and rank. 

IIT Senate feels since the assessment system varies across school boards, the knowledge of students cannot be reflected on the same scale and such weightage would not be a true assessment. Faculty representatives also feel that changes will dilute the IIT brand. 

The other objections relate to both parts of the test carrying objective-type questions, and the plan to hold them on the same day. 

AICTE clears 17 new tech institutions in state

PUNE: At least 17 new technical institutions, which include engineering colleges, will go functional in the state from the coming academic year 2012-13. 

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which regulates technical education in the country, has cleared these institutions as part of the approval process for new institutions, new courses and variation in student intake for 2012-13. 

AICTE's officiating chairman S S Mantha told TOI on Wednesday, "We received 669 applications for new institutions including engineering, polytechnics, management, pharmacy, architecture and applied arts colleges, among others. Of these, 76 proposals including 17 from Maharashtra have been cleared. All the remaining proposals have been rejected." 

Mantha said details about the approved institutions and their sanctioned intake will be released in a day or two. "We have now moved into the appeals process for those institutions whose applications have been rejected," he said. 

The AICTE started the approval process for 2012-13 by seeking online submission of proposals between October and December 2011. The process for scrutiny of these proposals had begun in January and ended on March 31. 

Mantha said, "Of the 669 pleas, 307 were for new polytechnics and the remaining applications were for degree and post-graduate institutions for engineering, management and other technical courses. There were 119 applications from Maharashtra." 

The state government had earlier written to the AICTE urging that no new engineering colleges be sanctioned this year in view of the large number of engineering seats going vacant for the last few years in the state. 

As of now, Maharashtra accounts for nearly 325 engineering colleges that collectively have a student intake of over 1.20 lakh seats. For the last two years, the engineering colleges in the state have reported close to 20,000 vacant seats. 

Mantha said, "We received the letter from the Maharashtra government and we discussed the issue at our meeting too. However, applying a sudden brake on the process of approving new institutions is not a practical solution considering the gestation period for any institution to reach the state where it can apply for approval." 

"Usually, it takes around two years for an institution to have all the necessary ground work in place, including raising capital, making investments in new buildings, labs and allied infrastructure and meeting other norms before it can move an application for approval before the AICTE. We cannot suddenly say no to these institutions," he said. 

Mantha, however, said that the council was conscious about the concerns raised by Maharashtra as well as the other state governments regarding vacant seats. "We will review our policy for approval of new institutions which intend to start from 2014-15," he said. 

New Action Plan to revamp exam system in University of Mumbai

Mumbai: University of Mumbai will prepare an action plan to revamp examination system within a week. 

University has asked all colleges to submit their suggestions regarding how to improve exam system.

This step is taken after major controversary regarding re-exam of TY students taken place. Amid strict security re-exam of MHRM was held under supervision of 160 officers of University. 

Maharashtra government is also thinking to create smaller Universities from bigger Universities, which having so many colleges. 

This will improve administrative system. A decision will be taken within one month.   

8th standard to be disappear from high schools in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: From June-2012 8th standard will be disappear from all high schools in Gujarat. Study of 8th standard will be included in primary schools. Similarly semester system will be implemented in standard 6th to 8th. So new text-books will be coming up for 6th to 8th standard. 

In 6th to 8th standard new text-books will be available of Gujarati, Hindi, Maths, Science and technology, social science, English and Sanskrit. While in 9th and 10th standard two text-books of technical & vocational subjects will be changed, curriculum of 12th  Science will also be changed according to semester system.

Festival Segasitas-2012 started in ITM University

Gwalior. Seems like it’s a rain of festivals in ITM University one after the other it’s like a never ending carnival, so now it’s Sagasitas-2012. The first event of the fest was kite flying and the sky was filled with colorful kites flying high.

Segasitas-2012 started with a kite flying high in the sky and not only students but faculties too participated in the event. Event was organized in the campus of ITM University and more then 500 students participated in this event and event was a part of celebration of world’s rainbow day.

Event Coordinator Prof. Priti Singh said that the next event of the festival will be blood donation champ and its expected that most of the students of ITM University will be participated in the event.

GICTS College Gwalior organized event Virasat 2012

Gwalior: Virasat 2012 an event organized by GICTS College ends with the soothing and melodious performance by Vishwamohan Bhatt. The last day of the event became more joyful to students as they get prizes for their best performance in their respective events.

Last day of Virasat 2012 belonged to international performer and Grammy Award winner Vishwamohan Bhatt as he mesmerized viewers through his performance. 

The musician has already performed in 51 countries across the globe. Evening continues with prize distribution to the students who stood best in their respective competitions. 

In solo singing first prize went to Shubham Mathur where as second and third place were held by Sugam Sharma and Ujwal Goswami. 

In group singing Annapurda Goswami and Shubham Mathur were crowned as winner. In solo dance first position was occupied by Sanjay Dhakre and Shilpa Mohite and Hardeep has to compromise with second and third positions. In group dance it was shilpa Mohite and Group who stood first. 

IBMs Campus placement in MPCT College

Gwalior: One of the leading brands of IT industry IBM organizes campus placement in MPCT College to get the best suited candidate to work for their company. 

Students also took part in large numbers to catch hold of this big opportunity.

Students of MPCT College got a surprising gift from their college as one the world’s biggest company IBM organizes campus placement in their college. 

In this placement not only MPCT College’s students participated but students from Shri Ram College, ITM,GEC etc. were also the part of this placement. 

Placement procedure continues till late night and selected candidates were given offer letter on the spot. On this occasion director of MPCT Abhey Saxena and director of training and placement cell Ankur Chauhan congratulated the selected candidates.

IPS college organizes seminar on emerging advance engineering material

Gwalior: IPS college organizes Seminar on advance engineering in this seminar student will come across latest engineering technologies and future discoveries. 

Students also participated in large number to gain as much of knowledge as they can about future technologies.

IPS College take a future step by organizing seminar on future technology in this seminar Prof. K.M. Gupta from Motilal Nehru National Technical society said that scientists and researchers are now coming up with new smart bricks which will come real handy in order to safe guard the house, these bricks will have sensors which will directly inform the owners if some unidentified person enters into the house. 

Prof. Gupta also gave information about Fej Diagram, Carbon Diagram and Iron Diagram to engineering students. On this occasion IPS’s Director Arun Kumar Tyagi, Principal Dr. Aashish Sharma were also present during the seminar.

National Law Schools will be set up in Mumbai

Mumbai: National Law Schools will be set up in Mumbai and Indian Institute of Information Technology would come up in Pune, Higher and Technical Education minister Rajesh Tope annonced. While replying to demands of his department said the government has decided to set up state skilled development council which will be headed by the chief minister. Such councils will be set up at district level as well.

He said the Indian Institute of Information Technology would come up in Pune in which Centre will invest Rs 100 crore while state will put Rs40 crore. Similarly, National Law Schools will be set up in Aurangabad, Mumbai and Nagpur.
This year, 14 hostels exclusively for girls will come up In 12 districts. A provision of Rs70 crore would be made which will benefit 2,250 girls. Besides, one hostel in each district of the state will be set up for students belonging to economically backward classes

School Education Minister Rajendra Darda announced the system of central kitchen for the mid day meals in schools that will be introduced from the next academic year and would benefit a large number of students.
He also said that steps were being taken to improve the quality of the food served and check the instances of food poisoning in the schools. Replying to debate on the budgetary demands of his department, Darda  said that a pilot project of the central kitchen was successful in Aurangabad and helped in providing quality food.      

Jr college admissions to stay online this year

Mumbai: Admissions to junior colleges will continue to be online this academic year. School education minister, Rajendra Darda, told the state assembly that despite having teething problems in the past two years, the government would continue with online admissions.

 “Last year there were some errors, following which a committee was set up to look into the issue. After some consideration, the committee has submitted a report that is in favour of continuing the system,” he said. The issues that arose from the system included a strain on the website and confusion over the allocation of colleges.      

R.D.V.V. STARTED SEMSETER EXAMS

Jabalpur. R.D.V.V. had started its semester exams of fifth and third  from Monday . Vice chancellor of the university took a round of 12 colleges and saw the management process and asked theInvigilator to take the proper care of the students appearing for the exams and keep high alert on the students so that the cannot use any wrong means . 

The vice chancellor said that he has seen many of the students bringing wrong means to get cleared in there exams . He has ordered to prevail the drinking water and fans facilities to the students  . While going for first went to hitkarni chanchalbai nachiketa college kahalsa college for furhter insepection      

Graphene can help study liquids more clearly: Scientists

London: Carbon-based material graphene can help study liquids more clearly at higher resolution than was previously possible, scientists have claimed.
 
Liquids had been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids because these microscopes require the liquids to be encapsulated by some material.
 
Traditionally, silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules, or liquid cells, have been used. But these are generally too thick to see through clearly. 
 
Now, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that pockets created by sheets of graphene can be used to study liquids at clear, atomic, resolution using transmission electron microscopes  (TEMs), the BBC reported.
 
The researchers used their new graphene-based liquid cell to study the formation of platinum nanocrystals in solution.
 
With this technique, detailed in the journal Science, the UCB team, led by Jong Min Yuk, was able to observe new and unexpected stages of nanocrystal growth as it happened.
 
They noted how the crystals selectively coalesced and modified their shape.
 
Graphene consists of a flat layer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional honeycomb arrangement.
 
Because it's so thin, it is also practically transparent. The unusual electronic, mechanical and chemical properties of graphene at the molecular scale promise numerous applications.
 
The new technique might enable scientists to study other physical, chemical, and biological phenomena that take place in liquids on the nanometre scale, experts said.
 
"Their approach opens new domains of research in the physics and chemistry in the fluid phase in general," said Christian Colliex, from the Universite Paris Sud in France, who was not involved with the research. 

Students block road in Odisha

Malkangiri (Odisha): Demanding admission in schools, hundreds of SC and ST students and their parents resorted to a road blockade disrupting vehicular movement in Odisha's Malkangiri district.
 
The protesters sat on the main road at Kadamguda junction under Khairput block, about 60 km from here. As a result, vehicular movement through the area to Andhra Pradesh, Chitrakonda and Balimela from one side and Jeypre, Koraput and Bhubaneswar and Cuttack on the other was disrupted.
 
Alleging that the students who passed their eighth standard in Khairput block were given admission to ninth standard in any other high school, president of Sarbasisakti Sanghathan Rama Pangi, spearheading the agitation, said they would continue the dharna till their demand was fulfilled.
 
At least eight upper primary schools in the block had been upgraded to high schools with classes upto 8th standard. But students who passed eighth required to move to another high school to complete their study upto 10th standard.
 
The students faced problem seeking admission in other high schools in the block and many preferred quitting their studies to being harassed, Pangi alleged.
 
District Inspector of Schools-1(DI), Malkangiri, Udayanath Mishra said he was aware of the problem being faced by students but refuted the charge that students were harassed.
 
"Due to shortage of hostels in high schools for SC/ST students this problem has cropped up. We have suggested a few schools for their admission, but the parents are not agreeable because of the distance factor", he said adding efforts were on to sort the problem in consultation with the authorities. 

Assam takes efforts to check teacher absenteeism in schools

Guwahati: To check cases of teacher absenteeism, all schools in Assam will soon be connected with the Internet, through which the school administration is required to upload a daily report on staff attendance.
    
Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said as part of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), daily phone calls will also be made to principals of each school to ensure teacher attendance.
    
"Every morning at 10 am, education department officials will call up headmasters who are expected to give details about that days' staff work schedule. The data will be sent to the chief minister's office and education department every afternoon," Sarma said during the inaugural ceremony of the RMSA in Assam.
    
"With a view to further streamline the process we are also developing an online tracking system and this will be in place in all schools within the current fiscal," he said, while warning that the state government is willing to "bid farewell" to those teachers who are not serious about work and stay away from duty frequently.
    
Assam will be releasing Rs 31 crore for training of teachers under RMSA in 2012-13.
    
"We will start a one-month training course for teachers of english, science and mathematics this year and we are looking at making this training an annual affair for all school teachers even if that mean paying them one month's additional salary," he said and added that 86 per cent of school teachers in the state lack professional degrees like B.Ed.  

Sarma said the number of schools in Assam are slated to rise to 5,000 by 2016 from the present 2,600.
    
"Our target is to have one school at a distance of every five kilometer. With Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, we have been able to increase enrollment at primary classes to 98 per cent in Assam.
    
"However, enrollment rate at classes 8 and above remain as low as 50 per cent and successful implementation of the RMSA will remove this discrepancy," he said.
    
The minister said Assam will also launch the Higher Education Mission in 2012, placing it among a select few states to have inaugurated the scheme.     

Speaking on the occasion, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said the state government will take steps to start courses in fields like architecture and fashion technology to give more options to students as well as cater to demand for professionals in such sectors.
    
"Assam has seen many agitations led by students in last few decades. However, what we need is an agitation to improve education and the life of students," Gogoi said.