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Friday, 22 May 2020

HC allows Punjab schools to collect 70% of total fee

Written by Express News Service | Chandigarh |

Published: May 22, 2020 10:33:31 pm

The schools in the order passed on May 15 were also directed to not reduce the salary of the teachers, and reschedule the last date of deposit of admission fee to one month after the condition improves.

THE PUNJAB and Haryana High Court on Friday ordered that the schools in Punjab can charge 70 per cent of the total school fee from parents and also allowed the schools to seek admission fee in two installments.

“Keeping in view the present circumstances, interim direction is being given that the admission fee which is paid one time by the parents, shall be paid in two equal installments in six months and the 70 per cent of the total school fee will be charged from the parents of the students and 70 per cent salary will be paid to the teachers during the pendency of this writ petition,” the order passed by Justice Ritu Bahri reads.

Independent Schools Association, Chandigarh and managements of different schools situated in Mohali had challenged the Punjab School Education Board order asking the schools, which are holding online classes, to only charge tuition fee and not building charges, transportation charges, charges for meals etc. The schools in the order passed on May 15 were also directed to not reduce the salary of the teachers, and reschedule the last date of deposit of admission fee to one month after the condition improves.

Advocate Aashish Chopra, appearing on behalf of the schools, argued that both the conditions are contradictory as on one side, the parents are to be given concession of not depositing the full fee but on the other hand, the schools are being ordered not to reduce the salary of teachers. It was also submitted that the private un-aided schools deposit funds under the head ‘Reserve Fund’ with the authorities – the amount at present stands at Rs 77 crore, but the government has not come to their help even for sanitisation. It was also contended that the admission fee of the students cannot be stalled as the fee is taken one time from the parents when the child gets admission in school.

The court in the order, while seeking a detailed reply, asked the state counsel to “get instructions as to how the respondents can help the private schools with regard to amount deposited in the ‘Reserved Fund’ for santising the school buildings”. The case has been adjourned for next hearing on June 12.

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Telangana Class 10 exams to be held from June 8 - education

With the Telangana High Court showing green light for conducting Class X exams after the first week of June, the state education authorities on Friday announced the exam schedule.

As per the new schedule, the exams will be held from June 8 to July 5.

Education Minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy announced that there will be a two- day gap after each paper as suggested by the high court.

The exams will be held from 9.30 a.m. to 12.15 pm.

Acting on the court’s suggestion to ensure social distancing, the department said 2,005 exam centres would be set up. This will be in addition to 2,530 centres set up earlier.

The minister said every exam centre will be sanitised and the students will be provided face masks. All candidates will be thermally screened before their entry into the exam centres.

For candidates found to be suffering from fever, cold and cough, separate rooms would be providing for writing the exams.

One student will sit on each bench in the exam hall. Students will be informed about their exam centres through their respective schools.

The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) will operate special buses to ferry the students to their exam centres.

Sabita Indra Reddy said services of additional 26,422 teachers will be used as invigilators at the exam centres. It will be compulsory for them to wear masks and gloves.

She appealed to parents of the students to take care of them to ensure that they are not affected by Covid-19. On the suggestion of the High Court, the department decided to open a helpline for students and their parents.

While allowing the government to go ahead with the preparations for the exams after first week of June, the High Court on Wednesday asked it to review the situation on June 3 and submit its report to the court the next day. The government was asked not to conduct the exams if the Covid-19 situation deteriorates by then.

A division bench passed the orders on a petition filed by the state government, seeking review of the interim orders passed by the court in March and the permission to conduct the exams in May as per the revised schedule.

On March 20, the High Court had directed the state to postpone the Class X exams, scheduled for March 23 to April 6, in view of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The state had conducted the exams for three papers of the first and second languages before March 22 as per the original timetable.

The state Cabinet earlier this month decided to conduct the exams for remaining papers during May.

It moved the High Court, seeking permission for the same keeping in view the academic calendar and the interests of 5.50 lakh students.

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India reaches out to Pak, Iran for coordinated response to contain desert locusts

Written by Shubhajit Roy
| New Delhi |

Published: May 22, 2020 10:36:22 pm

Man beats “thalli” to make swarm of locust (Tiddi Dal) fly away from his field at village 4V near Sri Karanpur in SrI Ganga Nagar in Rajasthan.

India has reached out to Pakistan and Iran as desert locust is spreading in the region and threatening crops in these countries and elsewhere.

Billions of insects forming swarms that spread over hundreds of thousands of acres have swept into Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, and India, threatening harvest.

To further regional cooperation, sources said, India has proposed “coordinated response” to desert locust control to Iran and Pakistan.

India has suggested to Pakistan that both countries coordinate locust control operation along the border and that India can facilitate supply of pesticide Malathion to Pakistan.

The institutionalised mechanism of Locust Warning Organization could be energised for such cooperation, sources said. India has also offered to supply pesticide to Iran to carry out desert locust control operations in its Sistan-Balochistan and South Khorasan provinces. These efforts will contribute to mitigate the effect of desert locust not only in these countries, but also for India.

A source said, “Iran has already responded positively to the Indian offer. It remains to be seen if Pakistan will rise above its narrow-minded approach, as was seen in the case of India’s regional initiative for dealing with Covid-19, and come forward with cooperation on coordinated desert locust control operation with India.”

As per the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reports, in Iran, hopper bands of the locust are maturing along the southwestern coastal plains, and another generation of breeding is underway in the southeast where hatching is taking place on the coast and in the interior of Sistan-Baluchistan. In Pakistan, adult groups are migrating to the India border from breeding areas in Baluchistan where hopper groups are present as well as in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

The FAO reports indicate that the desert locust population is expected to move from spring breeding of Balochistan to summer breeding along India-Pakistan border. In India, more adult groups and small swarms have arrived from Pakistan in the past weeks and moved east into Rajasthan, reaching Jodhpur.

India’s Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry leads the efforts in locust control in the country. It also spearheads initiatives to foster regional cooperation.

With Pakistan, there is an existing institutionalised mechanism for such cooperation, including regular border meetings between locusts officers of the two countries.

Six border meetings between locust officers led by Plant Protection Advisers of India and Pakistan are held every year (June to November) either at Munabao (India side) and or at Khokhropar (Pakistan side) for exchanging information on locust situation of both the countries. Wireless communication between Jodhpur and Karachi is also maintained every year during this period (June to November) for exchange of locust information between the two countries.

In addition, regional cooperation on locust control is driven by FAO. India participates in the meetings/ sessions of the FAO’s Desert Locust Control Committee; participates and organizes the meetings/sessions of FAO’s Commission for Controlling Desert Locust in South West Asia; and participates in the Joint Survey Programmes with Pakistan and Iran organized by FAO.

“There is consensus that the Desert Locust could pose a grave challenge in 2020. The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Affairs has already started efforts in the matter. In March 2020, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture Kailash Choudhary himself participated in a South West Asian Region virtual meeting coordinated by FAO to discuss regional cooperation to combat desert locust problem,” the source said.

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MAH MBA CET exam result to be declared tomorrow, says Uday Samant - education

Maharashtra Minister of Higher Education and Technical Education, Uday Samant on Friday tweeted that the result for MAH-MBA/MMS CET will be declared on May 23 at 11 am.

MAH – MBA /MMS CET २०२० ही परीक्षा दिनांक – १४ व १५ मार्च २०२० रोजी घेण्यात आली होती ह्या परीक्षेला ११०६३१ उमेदवार बसले होते सदर परीक्षेचा निकाल उद्या दिनांक- २३/०५/२०२० रोजी सकाळी ११ वाजता जाहीर होईल- उदय सामंत .
— Uday Samant (@samant_uday) May 22, 2020

MAH MBA CET computer-based examination was conducted on March 14 and 15, 2020, in which 110631 candidates appeared.

Students who have appeared in the examination can check their results online at cetcell.mahacet.org after it is declared.

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From Monday, no frisking at airports, contactless security check

Written by Deeptiman Tiwary
| New Delhi |

Updated: May 22, 2020 8:11:47 pm

Even the length of the metal dector has been increased so that CISF personnel do not need to come close to passengers.

As flights begin operations this Monday, passengers will no longer be required to get their tickets physically verified or go through frisking.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which handles security at all major airports in the country, has worked out a system of contactless ticket verification and security check where adequate distance between passengers and security personnel would be maintained at all times.

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Now, there will be a glass partition at all airports between the CISF personnel and passengers at the gate. “The passengers will be required to show their tickets and IDs from across this barrier. At certain airports such as Hyderabad, technology is available for bar code reading or blowing up the ticket and ID on a screen through use of cameras. There even further distance can be maintained,” CISF DG Rajesh Ranjan told The Indian Express.

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The other close contact routine followed by CISF personnel at airports is in the security hold area. “There also we will strive to ensure that in 99% of cases it is contactless and with minimal pat-down frisking. Even that will be done through handheld metal detectors. The general request is that passengers must divest all items from their body. If the door frame metal detector alarm goes off then, they will be asked to check themselves and divest items. If even after that there is a beep on HHMD or DFMD, then patdown will be resorted to. The personnel will have required protective gear such as face shield and gloves. There will be frequent sanitising of gloves and detectors,” Ranjan said.

Even the length of the metal dector has been increased so that CISF personnel do not need to come close to passengers.

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Based on the force’s recommendations, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has already done away with the stamping of boarding passes after security check.

“Here cameras will be relied upon for backend verification of all passengers having gone through security checks,” a CISF officer said.
The CISF, in fact, has been preparing for full-scale operations for over a month now and has made multiple suggestions to BCAS and Civil Aviation Ministry. Most of these suggestions have been included in the guidelines issued by the ministry for operation of domestic flights, sources said.

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“The operations at the airport had not come down to zero level anyway. As people were being evacuated from abroad or foreigners being facilitated on flights out of India, we were on the job. We used this time to prepare ourselves for full operations, so that we remain secure and ensure the safety of passengers also. Our endeavour will be to ensure that the passenger has a hassle free experience at the airport even as security is not compromised,” Ranjan said.

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Apart from this, the CISF has passed orders for stocking of protective gear for three months in advance even as its suggestions on one metre distance marking in check in area, marking of square boxes for cars dropping passengers to the airport, reporting of passengers at airport two hours in advance, staggered flight schedules and sanitisation of all baggage are being implemented by airport and flight operators.

The force has till date reported around 98 cases of Covid 19 within its ranks including seven recoveries and one death. Most cases have been reported from Kolkata (40) and Delhi (32). It has among the lowest infections among paramilitary forces where numbers are now hovering at around 1000.

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PGIMER releases revised schedule for various entrance exam at pgimer.edu.in, check details - education

Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh has released a revised schedule for various entrance exams 2020 on its official website.

According to the schedule, the entrance examinations for various courses will begin from June 14 to 22, 2020.

Revised schedule:

“Schedule and mode of counseling shall be notified separately. Timings of morning and evening shifts will be reflected on the admit card of concerned examination. Candidates are advised to keep checking the website i.e., www.pgimer.edu.in regularly for any further updates,” reads the official notice.

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MAH CET MBA/MMS result tomorrow

By: Education Desk | New Delhi |

Updated: May 22, 2020 7:33:21 pm

Maha MBA MMS CET result on May 23 (Representational image)

MBA MCET result: The result for Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to postgraduate degree courses in business administration including MBA or MMS will be declared on May 23 at 11 am, the Maharashtra Education Minister Uday Samant informed. The result will be available at the official website, mahacet.org andcetcell.mahacet.org. The entrance exam was held on March 14 and 15.

Those who clear the exam will be eligible for counseling rounds. Those who make it through the merit list will have to register for the counseling process. Based on their score and institute of choice, candidates can get admission in the state-based B-schools, colleges and universities.

MBA MCET result: Steps to Check

Step 1: Visit the official website
Step 2: Click on the result link (yet to be activated)
Step 3: Fill credentials
Step 4: Result will appear, download

Most of the counselling processes and document verification processes are being held online for other states and institutes. Till now, there is no clarity on the same for MCET, however, in view of the coronavirus pandemic, it is expected to be held entirely online. It is a computer-based test. Candidates have to answer 150 questions in two and a half hours.

Since the exam was carried out in multiple sessions, scores across various sessions will be equated to adjust for slight differences in difficulty level of different tests used across sessions, as per the official notice. Over 400 institutes accept the MCET score for admission, as per UGC, the new session will start by September.

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