UP govt to extend all help in setting up AIIMS at Rae Bareli

Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh said it was ready to extend all possible help to set up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Rae Bareli, parliamentary constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
   
Providing high quality medical services to the people of the state is among the priorities of the government and it is willing to extend every type of support to the Centre in setting up of an AIIMS, an official spokesman said.
   
He said MLA from Saraini in Rae Bareli Devendra Pratap Singh has submitted a proposal to the Chief Minister to provide 114-acre land in Chanda village for the project. 
   
The spokesman said while the MLA has mentioned availability of 50.31 acre government land, he has submitted consent letters of farmers for another 63.4 acre land. 
   
He said the Sub-Divisional Magistrate had submitted his report to the District Magistrate Rae Bareli regarding identified land.
  
The spokesman said MLA from Bachrawan Ramlal Akela has also said about availability of land in his constituency for setting up of AIIMS. 

UP to promote IT sector

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government Monday decided to give a fresh impetus to the IT sector and involve it in education, health, industry and governance.

The move came after a two-hour meeting Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had with HCL chairman Shiv Nadar.

Earlier, in his presentation before the chief minister, Nadar said that integration of IT with governance could yield wonderful results and could involve more people in sectors like health and higher education.

He also proposed that 20 primary schools in 2012 and 100 primary schools in 2013 be included in financial funding by the Shiv Nadar Foundation.

Akhilesh Yadav earlier told Nadar that he wished that computers were used like mobiles in the state.

Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh government rolled out a red carpet welcome for Nadar and his seven-member delegation as it landed in a chartered flight.

The meeting was called to decide on the possible and prompt modalities of rolling out the ambitious election promise of giving free Tablets to students who pass Class X and a laptop to all those who clear Class XII.

A close aide said the chief minister was more focused on the availability and a time frame for giving away the laptops and tablets.

The move is likely to cost the government Rs.1,819 crore - calculated at Rs.10,000 a laptop and Rs.1,000 per tablet.

A total of 22.93 lakh students passed the Class X exam through the UP Board last year and 15.90 lakh appeared for the Class XII or Intermediate exam.

UP Govt orders teachers to inform DMs before leaving districts

Lucknow: In a bid to strengthen primary education in the state, Uttar Pradesh government asked teachers to inform concerned District Magistrates before venturing out of the districts.
 
Informing Basic Education Minister, Ram Govind Chowdhury about the government decision, said, if any Basic Shiksha Adhikaris leaves his concerned district without prior information, strict action would be initiated against him.
 
The Minister also directed various officers of the Basic Education Department to ensure publication of academic books, to be distributed among the children, before the commencement of next session in July. 

Student tries to commit suicide after failing in one paper

Lucknow: Apparently depressed over failing in his physiology paper, an MBBS student of the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University today allegedly tried to commit suicide by consuming a poisonous substance. 

Neeraj Kumar, an MBBS student of 2010 batch, was found unconscious in his hostel room this morning after which he was rushed to the Trauma centre, where his condition was stated to be stable. 

The students, who secured admission in the reserved category had alleged caste bias in the campus claiming that they were deliberately failed. Kumar was also a student in the reserved category. 

Kumar, a gold medalist of his batch in the anatomy discipline was not able to move to the second year because he has been repeatedly failing in his physiology subject since 2010. 

His batchmates said that he was upset after not being able to pass the physiology paper. University Vice Chancellor D K Gupta had written to the Medical Council of India last asking for permission to pass students of reserved category who could not clear their first professional exams for several years

UP govt rolls out freebies to students, unemployed

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh cabinet decided to provide unemployment allowance of Rs 1000 per month to those over 35 years of age and laptops and computer tablets to class 12th and 10th passouts respectively.

The first cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav also decided to provide unemployment allowance to all those registered with the employment exchanges above 35 years of age and class 10 pass, Chief Secretary Anup Misra told newspersons here.

In another populist step, the cabinet decided Muslim girls passing class 10 would get financial assistance of Rs. 30,000 for further education or marriage without any criterion of income, Misra said adding there would be about one lakh such girls and the scheme would cost Rs. 300 crores.

According to estimates, there are some nine lakh registered unemployed persons and they will be provided Rs. 1000 per month from the next financial year and this would cost around Rs. 1100 crores on the state exchequer annually, Misra said.

In other important decisions in keeping with the SP election manifesto, the cabinet decided to provide tablets to all girl and boy students passing out of class 10th and laptops to all those passing out of class 12th on taking admission in the next class.

This would cover students of all the boards and schools in the state, including madarsa students, Misra said adding it was estimated that some 25 lakh tablets and as many laptops would be required for this scheme which would together cost Rs. 3000 crores per year. The scheme would come into force from this year.