Fruit Seller Receives Padma Shri For Starting School: Mangalore
Mangalore's 68-year-old fruit seller Harekala Hajabba, received the Padma Shri award on November 8 for building a primary school with his earnings. Reportedly, he used to earn Rs 150/day. His aim to build a school reportedly came from an incident where he could not understand English spoken by a tourist. Hajabba told ANI, "today the school has 175 students with classes up to… read-more
Tags: Padma Shri, President Ramnath Kovind, Human Interest stories, Primary Schools, Padma Awards
Courtesy: India Today
Rajasthan Govt Announce Plans For School Final Exams
Owing to the pandemic, the Rajasthan Education Department has decided to hold final exams for the students of classes 3-5 on 40% marks. Reportedly, the remaining 60 per cent marks would be granted to all students by the schools. Besides, for classes 6 to 8, 50% would be internal marks and the remaining 50% through an exam. Meanwhile, the application deadline for the RBSE Exam has been extended till January 18.
Tags: Rajasthan, RBSE Board Exams, Department of Education, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools
Courtesy: Times Now
Report Says Jharkhand Has Substantially Inferior Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Jharkhand has a "substantially inferior" pupil-teacher ratio with over 2/3rd vacant seats for teachers in primary and upper primary schools, revealed a data. Reportedly, 70,000 additional teachers should be employed for 34 lakh students in 33,000 schools. Similarly, in middle school education, only 14,099 teachers were sanctioned with 16,680 vacant slots. One of the officials said, “New cadre will allow us to add 30,000 primary and upper… read-more
Tags: Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, Primary Schools, government schools
Courtesy: The Indian Express