Modi to launch school enrollment drive on June 14

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Narendra Modi will lead the three-day ‘girl child education’ and ‘school enrollment’ drive that is taking place in the State from June 14 to 16.

As a part of the drive, Mr. Modi will deliver his address on ‘collective efforts for the promotion of primary education’ via video conference on June 14, Thursday, from Gandhinagar.

Later on, the Chief Minister will visit primary schools and anganwadis of tribal-dominated regions of Mautanda village of Bhiolda taluka and Todav village of Vijaynagar taluka in Sabarkantha district.

IIM-Tiruchi to open campus in Chennai

Tiruchirapalli.  IIM Tiruchirapalli would open its new campus at Chennai and had acquired a 13000 sq ft building, IIM-T Director Prafulla Agnihotri today said. The building was acquired at Guindy envisaging commencement of executive education management development programme and PG Diploma in Business  Management for the benefit of working executives, he told reporters here.

IIM-T's flagship PG programme/PGDBM  is a three-year programme. Classes would be held in the evenings and on weekends. Admission process would commence very soon for the Chennai campus whose intake would be a minimum of 40 and maximum of 60. The eligibility of  candidates would be three years of

work experience in management cadre after graduation along with good academic background, he said.

The programme will be priced at Rs nine lakh payable in six instalments including text books and course materials.The new course is likely to start in August second week,he said.

Earlier at a function here, he indicated that IIM-T was the first in the country to offer FPM programme (Fellowship Post Graduate Management) which was equivalent to Phd degree. At the formal inauguration of the 2nd batch of IIM T which had admitted 100 candidates as against 84 in the first year of IIM-T, Agnihotri said they had already appointed 17 top ranking faculty members. Before the end of the year, this will go up to 20,he said.

Awdesh Krishna, MD, Nomura Services India Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, formally declared open the renovated library at IIM-T campus for which over Rs one crore had been spent for purchase of books and journals. PTI 

AAT Academy launched

Coimbatore: Nasscom Regional Director K Purushothaman launched AAT Academy from the stable of VITAE International Accounting Services Ltd, here. 
   
He said technology advancement in the IT sector has reached a such a level that a software engineer could work and contribute to any country, sitting at any location of his preferred choice.
   
What an engineer was supposed to do going to foreign countries, he can sit and do at a place of his preferred choice and deliver, without compromising on quality and payment, he said.
   
He lauded the efforts of VItae to launch the academy to equip candidates from commerce stream, with definite abilities in the core areas of accounting, audit and taxation to minimize the gaps that existed in their knowledge and ability.
   
Daniel Victor, Managing Director, VITAE said that the academy was aimed to grant employability in international professional opportuinities and very often in areas that did not draw full latent capabilities of these individuals. 

3 Indians among 15 finalists in Google Science Fair

Bangalore: Two students from the city, one from Lucknow and an Indian origin American are among the 15 finalists in this years Google Science Fair, the global science competition that challenges the young minds to conduct experiments that they think can change the world.
    
16-year old Rohit Fenn and Raghavendra Ramachandran (17) qualified for the final round from Bangalore, while Sumit Singh (14) has made it from Lucknow, Google India Head (Products) Lalitesh Katragadda told reporters here.
   
Another finalist is 17-year old Yamini Naidu, an Indian origin American, he said.
   
The three Indian students will fly along with 12 other finalists to Googles headquarters in California in July to present their projects to the panel of judges and compete for prizes that include $100,000 in scholarship funds, a trip to the Galapagos Islands and more, Katragadda said.
   
Rohit's qualifying science project is a partial-vacuum assisted flush that conserves over 50 per cent of the overall water used in a toilet to flush, he said.
   
Raghavendra Ramachandran, also from Bangalore, won a place in the final 15 with a project that involves re-converting the partially oxidized fuel (alcohols) into usable fuel, he added.
    
Sumit Singh, from Lucknow, designed a low-cost Vertical Multi-Level Farm, which could be used by small farmers to increase crop yield in agriculture and horticulture, he said.
  
Yaminis project is about creating a homology model of a human receptor protein using a computer modelling programme, he said. 

Pvt ayurvedic colleges allege corruption in CCIM

New Delhi: A group of private ayurvedic colleges from Punjab today alleged corruption in Central Council of Indian Medicine and demanded a CBI probe into it. 
 
Announcing their plans to stage a day-long dharna at Jantar Mantar, convener of Forum Against Malpractice and Corruption, Raj Kumar, alleged the Council has set highly impractical norms for granting annual approval to ayurvedic colleges, thus giving rise to corruption.
 
He said the Forum, led by Jalandhar-based Dayanand Ayurvedic College, had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, highlighting "rampant bribery and corruption" in the sector and urged the government to order a CBI probe.
 
"There are 250 ayurvedic colleges in India which are regulated by CCIM. The norms set for approvals by the Council are so rigid that no honest management can fulfil them. Last year, the council had rejected approvals for induction of students to the five-year BAMS course," Kumar claimed. 

India unveils 'Connect Asia policy'

New Delhi: Aiming for a better political, economic and people-to-people engagement with Central Asian countries, India today unveiled its 'Connect Asia policy' and expressed interest in setting up an university in Kyrgyzstan for imparting IT and management educations.
 
Inaugurating first India-Central Asia Dialogue organised by Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahmed said both sides are working to set up a Central Asian e-network with its hub in India.
 
"The minister unveiled India's 'Connect Central Asia' policy aimed at greater political, economic and people-to-people engagement with central Asian countries, both bilaterally and collectively," a ICWA statement said.
 
The programme aims at delivering tele-education and tele- medicine connectivity, linking all the five central Asian states with India, it said.
 
"Ahmed also expressed India's interest in assisting to set up a Central Asia University at Bishek imparting education in areas like IT, management, cultural exchanges including philosophy and languages," the statement said.
 
The two-day dialogue has brought together participants from across the central Asian countries and India.
 
The dialogue will be followed by a business interaction- 'Discover Asia' hosted by former President of Kyrgyz Republic, Roza Otunbayeva, on June 13.
 
Over 100 industrialists are participating in the event.

Sibal proposes to launch 'Connect to India' initiative in US

Washington: Union Human Resources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal proposed to launch a "Connect to India" initiative to attract more American students to study in India.
 
US already has a similar "Passport to India" programme for facilitating US students to go to India for studies.
 
"While the world is coming together through technology, we must learn to appreciate, manage and preserve our diversity through education and learning by experience. No country on this planet is more diverse than India.
 
I am sure that global students would understand and learn about management of diversity in India far better than elsewhere in the world," Sibal said.
 
"Towards this end, I propose, to launch a "Connect to India" initiative that will make available opportunities for students that will make available opportunities for students in the US to spend some time in our quality institutions for learning about our life, society, culture, economy polity and business," Sibal said.
 
The minister made these remarks at the opening session of the India-US Higher Education Dialogue which he co-chaired along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
 
As "Passport to India" programme of the US, Clinton announced that seven companies have agreed to support internship to service linked projects for 225 American students over the next three years.
 
"American students would soon be doing cutting edge research with Microsoft in Bangalore, developing new energy solutions at Honeywell in AP (Andhra Pradesh), and working on several projects with local NGOs," Clinton said.
 
The Secretary of State lauded Indian government for sending junior faculty for post-doctoral research. 

Diploma Nursing application forms from June 11

Chennai: Application forms for Diploma Nursing studies in Govt. Medical colleges and District Govt. Hospitals are issued from June 11, told Sukumar, Secretary and Additional Director of Medical Education.

Application forms are made available to aspiring candidates from June 11 to fill Diploma Nursing seats at 17 Govt. Medical Colleges. SC/ ST students can get the application free of cost, while other community students can obtain it by paying Rs 215.

Directorate of Medical education would bring out the official notification on June 11, revealed Sukumar, Secretary and Additional Director of Medical Education.

ICAI plans 100-150 CMA support centres across country

Kolkata: The Institute of Cost Accountant Of India (ICAI) has drawn up plans to set up 100-150 CMA support centres across the country.
 
"We have decided to set up 100-150 CMA Support Centres in a year and the first will be in Gulbarga in Jammu & Kashmir," ICAI central council member Manas Kumar Thakur told.
 
The plan had been drawn with close talks with Ministry of Corporate Affiars (MCA), which wants to promote industrialisation and cost-management concepts in smaller cities.
 
Thakur said these cost management account or CMA support centres will be opened where ICAI is not present and also make the students aware to join the course from smaller cities and towns for bright future.
 
ICAI is already present in 97 locations across the country.
 
Thakur said to align the course with international standards, the institute had already proposed few changes in course in all the three levels and the same was awaiting MCA's approval. 

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind awards scholarships to Mumbai students

Mumbai: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, an NGO which is known for extending legal aid to Muslim youths arrested on terrorism-related charges, today awarded scholarships of over Rs 17 lakh to students from various communities, including some Hindus.
     
The beneficiaries are students from class 7th to class 12th, studying in Mumbai schools.
     
The scholarships were given away at the hands of Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Naseem Khan, the NGO said in a press release here. MLA Amin Patel was also present. 
     
"We do not distinguish between communities when we do social work," said JUEH's all-India President Arshad Madani.