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  • “MANODARPAN” an initiative launched by MHRD

    “MANODARPAN” an initiative launched by MHRD

    Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank launched an initiative called “Manodarpan” on Tuesday. This initiative is launched under the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’. The initiative is launched to provide psychosocial support to students, teachers, and families for mental and emotional health.

    Minister of HRD Nishank said that “During the COVID-19 pandemic, the MHRD felt the need to focus on continuing education on the academic front and mental well being of the students.”

    Union Human Resource Development Minister (MHRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank launched an initiative called “Manodarpan” on Tuesday. This initiative is launched under the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’. The initiative is launched with a view to providing psychosocial support to students, teachers, and families for mental and emotional health.

    Further MHRD Nishank added that considering the situation “the ministry has therefore taken up the initiative named “Manodarpan”, which covers a wide range of activities to provide psychosocial support to students, teachers, and families for their mental and emotional health during the COVID outbreak and beyond.”

    About “Manodarpan” -Web page

    Under this initiative, a Web page has been launched named as ‘Manodarpan- Psychosocial Support for Mental Health & Well-being during COVID outbreak and beyond’.
    The web page can be found on MHRD’s website. The web page contains practical tips, posters, videos, advisory, dos, and don’ts for psychosocial support, and mental and emotional well-being of students.

    Also, the Web page contains FAQs and an online query system along with a toll-free helpline no. 8445440632 for countrywide outreach to students from schools, colleges, and universities. The helpline number has been set up to provide tele-counseling to address the mental health and psychosocial issues of students, teachers, and families.

    ‘Manodarpan’ following the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ will help in reconstructing the education sector by providing strength to human capital and in turn increase productivity.

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  • MHRD and UGC: Universities and Colleges to Reopen from November

    MHRD and UGC: Universities and Colleges to Reopen from November

    MHRD and UGC in a meeting said that the new session in universities and colleges will reopen in November across the country.

    Universities and Colleges New Session will begin from November

    Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the universities and colleges are closed since March. The pandemic has duly affected the academics this year. However, in a meeting UGC, Mangal Bhavan, under the chairmanship of MHRD Ramesh Pokriyal Nishank, it was decided that the new session in universities and colleges will begin from November across the country.

    Also, MHRD Nishank added that the universities will continue their admission procedures until the JEE mains and NEET 2020 results are out. This will make sure that the students don’t waste their year. The pandemic has already caused a lot of delays in the procedure. It should not further affect the education of the students.

    Open Book Learning Schools

    Open Book Learning Schools will begin from 15th August at Delhi University. The final year examinations are being postponed until August. The exams were to begin on July 10. The decision was passed after the UGC released its revised guidelines on examinations and academic year.

    UGC Guidelines

    The decision of postponing exams came after UGC released its guidelines on the conduction of final year examinations. The guidelines allowed the universities, colleges, and educational institutions to hold examinations by any mode. The exams can be online, offline, or blended mode, depending upon the suitability and feasibility of students. The universities and colleges are required to conduct the final year examinations till 30 September.

    If any student fails to appear in the examinations due to the prevailing pandemic situation special exams will be conducted for such students. Many states have already declared the cancellation of examinations for promoting students. The UGC has asked such states to reconsider their decision and necessarily apply the UGC revised guidelines to all the states.

    Prof. Rajneesh Jain, Secretary of UGC said, “The examinations give credibility to the evaluation of students for a lifetime. From the examination itself, he will get the degree, due to which he will take further admission or take placements”.

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  • Final Year Exams To Be Concluded By End Of February: MHRD

    Final Year Exams To Be Concluded By End Of February: MHRD

    Final year exams in colleges should be directed by September-end, the HRD Ministry declared on Monday, conceding the calendar from July taking into account a spike in COVID-19 cases.

    In any case, students incapable to show up indefinite year tests in September will get one more opportunity and colleges will lead exceptional tests “as and when plausible”, as indicated by an overhauled guidelines gave by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

    The HRD ministry’s choice came hours after the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) gave a request permitting the colleges and organizations of higher education to hold last term assessment according to the COVID-19 guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

    The declaration has settled theories that the tests for conclusive year students might be dropped taking into account the COVID-19 circumstance.

    In an official release prior, the MHA said this ministry “in a letter kept in touch with Union Higher Education Secretary today allowed direct of assessments by colleges and Institutions”.

    It further stated, “The last term assessment is to be obligatorily directed according to the UGC guidelines on assessment and scholastic schedule for colleges and according to the Standard Operative Procedure (SOP) endorsed by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.”

    States like Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Odisha, and Madhya Pradesh have just declared the wiping out of tests in schools and colleges in the perspective on COVID-19 pandemic.

    It might be reviewed that in April, the UGC had requested that the colleges direct the last, most important tests in July. The guidelines had likewise said the students of transitional semesters ought to be advanced based on their inside appraisal and execution in the past semester test.

    “The last year assessments will be led by the colleges or establishments before the finish of September in disconnected, on the web or mixed mode. The students having overabundance will obligatorily be assessed by directing assessments in disconnected (pen and paper) online mixed (on the web and disconnected) mode according to practicality and appropriateness,” as indicated by the UGC guidelines.

    Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ tweeted, “The UGC has returned to its previous guidelines identified with college assessments.” The priest said it has been planned “considering the wellbeing, vocation movement and positions of the students and their bigger advantages, in the wake of counseling” the home ministry and the wellbeing ministry.

    “It is critical to protect the standards of wellbeing, security, a reasonable and equivalent open door for students. Simultaneously, it is extremely vital to guarantee scholarly validity, vocation openings, and future advancement of students all around.

    “Scholarly assessment of students is a significant achievement in any education framework. The presentation in assessments gives certainty and fulfillment to the students and is an impression of skill, execution, and validity that is vital for worldwide worthiness,” the guidelines expressed.

    “If a student of the terminal semester/last year can’t show up in the assessment directed by the college for at all the reason(s) might be, the person might be offered chance to show up in uncommon examinations…which might be led by the college as and when possible, with the goal that the student isn’t put to any bother or disservice,” it said.

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  • Work From Home For Teachers Until July 31: MHRD

    Work From Home For Teachers Until July 31: MHRD

    The Human Resource Development ministry recently released circular has advised that the teachers, researchers, non-showing staff members ought to be allowed and encouraged to work from home until July 31, 2020. The circular has been discharged as MHA rules for staged reviving (Unlock 2)

    The circular discharged has likewise asked the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education, National Testing Agency, and the different self-ruling associations work under the Department of Higher Education to ensure that schools and educational foundations will be shut until July 31, 2020.

    The circular has likewise prompted that precautionary measures required for guaranteeing the wellbeing of the Faculty Members, Teachers, Researchers, Non-Teaching staff members of the educational foundations, and the students concentrating in the lodgings must be taken.

    Online or distance learning ought to likewise be kept on being allowed and empowered according to the MHRD circular. Alongside this, the ministry has solicited the Chief Secretaries from all the states and Union Territories to think about the rules for the Higher Educational Institutions under their influence.

    Teachers encouraged to Utilize Time on Hand

    The Circular which was given on June 30, 2020, has additionally expressed that the Faculty Members/Teachers/Researchers ought to use this time for various scholarly exercises.

    The current time will be considered ‘On Duty’ for the teachers or researchers and the non-showing staff members including specially appointed and contract teachers whose agreements are legitimate in any event until July 31, 2020.

    Read the MHRD Circular Here

    The circular further expressed that the Aarogya Setu App empowers simple distinguishing proof of potential hazard contamination thus it might be guaranteed that the Aarogya Setu App must be introduced by the students, faculty members, and representatives.

    The HRD Minister had a week ago requested that the UGC return to the rules gave before for middle and terminal semester assessments and the scholastic schedule because of the expanding instances of COVID-19 in the nation.

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  • Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal’s reaction to the cancellation of JEE and NEET exam requests

    Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal’s reaction to the cancellation of JEE and NEET exam requests

    Union HRD Minister on Cancellation of Medical and Engineering Exams 2020

    Parents and the aspirants of the medical (NEET) and engineering entrance exams (JEE) this year raised concerns. They raised concerns regarding exams getting conducted in the month of July. Earlier it was expected that with the beginning of the summer season the effect of COVID-19 cases will decrease. But the situation isn’t the same. The number of cases per day is still rising at a greater speed. Loads of advisories have been provided by the government so far. In the run, many higher educations exams have either been canceled or postponed. Looking at the prevailing situation the conduction of examinations might increase the risk of more people getting infected by the virus. The virus outbreak has started showing the effect on the medical and engineering entrance exams too.

    The medical entrance exam NEET is scheduled on 26th of July. While the engineering entrance exam, JEE is expected to be conducted between 18th -23rd of July.

    Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said: He has been receiving requests from parents as well as aspirants regarding cancellation of medical and engineering exams. These exams were to be conducted in the month of July.

    Also, he mentioned that a committee has been formed to look into the current situation. The committee consists of some officials from the National Agency (NTA) and other experts. The bench will be submitting its recommendations by tomorrow regarding the conduction of the JEE and NEET exams.

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  • 4 Crore Students In Higher Education To Receive Digital Devices In Next 5 Years: MHRD

    4 Crore Students In Higher Education To Receive Digital Devices In Next 5 Years: MHRD

    With the Covid-19 pandemic exposing a digital divide in education, the HRD Ministry has projected use of Rs 60,000 crore over the next five years to give digital devices to four crore students in higher education.

    The HRD Ministry made this projection in a presentation to the fifteenth Finance Commission Monday. The Commission had assembled the conference to discuss education “in the hour of Covid-19”.

    The department of higher education has proposed to give devices such as PC and tablet computers, cell phones, and television sets to almost 40% of the students who took a crack at colleges and universities by 2025-26.

    As of now, there are about 3.75 crore students tried out higher education institutions. In the first year, that is 2021-22, it plans to cover 1.5 crore students, trailed by 55 lakh in 2022-23, 61 lakh in 2023-24, 67 lakh in 2024-25 and 73 lakh in 2025-26. The ministry has assumed a normal cost of Rs 15,000 for each digital gadget.

    Of the Rs 60,000 crore, the association government’s share is pegged at Rs 36,473 crore more than five years. The remaining is proposed to be borne by the state governments, as per the ministry’s presentation.

    Given that much after it is esteemed safe to come back to the classroom, it won’t be arrival to what in particular was considered ordinary, the ministry has also sought funds to grow progressively content for web-based learning. An extra Rs 2,306 crore has been asked to create courses for the ministry’s educational channel (SWAYAM Prabha) and MOOCs stage till 2025-26.

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  • MHRD Looking For Rs.10.37 Trillion From 15th Finance Commission For 2021-25

    MHRD Looking For Rs.10.37 Trillion From 15th Finance Commission For 2021-25

    The Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday said it needs Rs.10.37 trillion for both for the higher education and school education parts and gave a nitty-gritty necessity projection to the fifteenth Finance Commission which is going by N.K. Singh.

    During a gathering between the fifteenth Finance Commission, and the HRD ministry on Monday, while the school education department gave its necessity for ₹6.37 trillion, the higher education department made an introduction for somewhat over ₹4 trillion. This prerequisite is for 2021-25.

    “The Commission had required this gathering all the more explicitly to make its proposals in its report for 2020-21 and 2025-26 regarding the matter of education particularly in the hour of Covid-19. In such a manner, the Commission required more prominent clearness… ,” the commission said in an announcement.

    “The Department of Higher Education has anticipated a budgetary necessity after the usage of EQUIP (2020-21 – 2025-26) is an aggregate of ₹400,576.25 crores throughout the following five years,” the announcement included.

    Of the complete projections for Department of School Education and proficiency, while the all-out reconsidered projection for a long time – 2021-22 to 2025-26 – according to one side to education mediations to the container of ₹4,62,827.39 crore and for the execution of national education policy, the ministry has pegged a prerequisite of ₹113,684.51 crores.

    “Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Amit Khare likewise made an introduction before the Commission in which he nitty-gritty the Changing Demographics and readiness of India to make Global Comparisons in Higher Education, he definite a few Challenges and Reforms to Higher Education including expanding GER (net enlistment proportion) to arrive at half percent by 2035, accomplishing Excellence through Autonomy by Graded Accreditation, Technology-driven Education including Online, Digital, Blended Mode of education, and so forth,” the commission said in the announcement.

    The commission said the ministry clarified how the covid-19 pandemic has affected the school education and how the ministry has begun a few activities for “guaranteeing progression of getting the hang of during the time of school terminations”. The commission and the ministry additionally talked about the requirement for quality education and the observation of the education result in the school area.

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  • GNDU Gets MHRD Approval For Interfaith Studies Center

    GNDU Gets MHRD Approval For Interfaith Studies Center

    GNDU will in the blink of an eye set up an inside for interfaith studies as reported in the Syndicate meeting hung on Monday. Vice-Chancellor Prof Jaspal Singh Sandhu managed the gathering, while Prof KS Kahlon, Registrar, introduced the plan.

    While inviting new individuals from the Syndicate — MLA Dr. Dharambir Agnihotri and MLA Surinder Singh Choudhary — Prof Sandhu said another inside has been affirmed by the Cabinet as a significant activity of GoI to praise the 550th birth commemoration of Guru Nanak Dev.

    Prof Ved Parkash, previous director UGC and Rahul Bhandari, secretary, advanced education, partook in the internet meeting.

    The VC said the first Detailed Project Report (DPR) was submitted to the MHRD with a monetary proposition of Rs482.12 crore, which was in this manner updated to Rs439.00 crore.

    “This modified DPR of Rs439 crore was affirmed by the MHRD with the first period of multi year’s monetary design of Rs175.87 crore. Of this, the principal yearly portion of Rs49.11 crore was authorized by the MHRD and will be discharged soon for building up the Center of Interfaith Studies,” he said. He likewise gave insights concerning the exercises of the college during the lockdown time frame.

    The other plan of the gathering was online instruction being bestowed to students. He said the UGC had given the new qualification measures for online instruction, in which Category-I and II University or University with NIRF positioning in Top-100, in the general classification, were qualified.

    “Under Category-I University, the Guru Nanak Dev University is finishing its procedure of online studies. A directorate of online studies of the college would likewise begin working soon. We are additionally getting rehashed demands from Punjabi people group and the graduated class from over the world to begin some online courses particularly in the field of Punjabi language and culture. Along these lines, that is on the cards also.”

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  • HEFA Sanctions 29k Crores To Finance Infrastructure Of Premier Institutes

    HEFA Sanctions 29k Crores To Finance Infrastructure Of Premier Institutes

    The HRD Minister, Dr. Ramesh Pokhariyal has educated that the colleges and universities regarding India would see an improvement in their infrastructure now that Higher Education Financial Agency, HEFA has endorsed 29 thousand crore rupees for financing infrastructure of the Indian educational organizations. A year ago the body chose to subsidize up to 1 lakh crore by 2022. Significant recipients would incorporate IITs, NITs, IITs, IISc, AIIMS, and so on.

    About HEFA

    It is known as the Higher Education Financial Agency which is the joint effort of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, MHRD, and Canara Bank. The body intends to build up India’s top-positioned organizations into comprehensively top-positioning foundations, that will be acclaimed over the globe. The body predominantly centers around AIIMA, IITs, IIITs, NITs, and other premier establishments of India.

    HEFA gives financial help to make a capital resource at serious loan costs. It likewise channelizes the CSR Funds from corporates and different contributors and gives them as awards to universities and colleges toa id educational projects. Its witticism is “Reviving Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) by 2022.”

    The body was propelled in the financial year 2018-19 and from that point forward has ascended in its degree from authorizing financial administrations worth 20,000 crore to 1 lakh crores.

    Since the previous 1 year, it has authorized credits worth 29000 crores out of which just about 8000 crores have been endorsed till April 2020, and above 80 foundations have profited the advantages to date.

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  • Updates From Latest Meeting Of HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’

    Updates From Latest Meeting Of HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’

    To talk about the current education situation, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ holds a gathering with Anita Karwal (Secretary of School Education and Literacy Department), Manoj Ahuja (Chairman of CBSE) and Vineet Joshi (Director General of NTA). The minister himself gave this update from his twitter handle.

    CBSE is going to lead pending assessments of CBSE board tests 2020 from first July to fifteenth July 2020. As of late, a few guardians recorded a request against the board’s choice to lead pending papers during the COVID-19 pandemic. They need pending papers of CBSE board test 2020 to be rejected and assessment ought to be done dependent on internal tests led before.

    NTA will direct JEE Main 2020 from 18 July to 23 July and NEET 2020 on 26 July. JEE Advanced 2020 is booked for 23rd August 2020. You can check about test dates and different updates from the connections given underneath.

    As of late, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) reported that choices on reviving of Schools, Universities, Colleges, Training Centers, Coaching, and Other Educational Institutions will be taken after an interview with UTs and States.

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