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Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said e-UGshala initiative will be launched on December 25 to enable open access to digitised contents for undergraduate learning. The minister also talked about making the e-pathshala available on mobile phones to enable access to children in remote areas. After digitisation of the ...

News: Government of India is leveraging the research potential of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to meet industry demands for innovative solutions for the “Make in India” initiative. It has created a corpus of Rs 250 crore annually with an aim of giving an impetus to the ‘Make In ...

Another proposal by IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) to increase the quota of students appearing for JEE (Advanced) from 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh has been approved. The minister insisted that the interests of socially and economically weaker sections should be protected at all costs. The council has also approved ...

Europe’s largest economy Germany and Asia’s third largest economy India have a healthy bi-lateral economic relations despite the sluggish speed of concluding Indo-EU Free Trade Agreement. As Indian Prime Minister Modi’s most of the policies such as Make in India or Digital India, are focused on making India a manufacturing ...

  Indian government has recently launched a scheme to provide interest subsidy for the period of moratorium on education loans taken by economically weaker sections from scheduled banks. The loans will be provided for technical and professional studies. It is projected that by 2030 India will become the largest contributor ...

News: The Smriti Irani-led human resource development ministry is working on a new law that will require schools to give a number of disclosures. The key proposals of the Bill are: (a) asking all schools to declare fee components on their websites, (b) notify their admission process clearly and well in advance, (c) disclose ...

News: Amid a raging controversy over the draft IIM bill, government said it was prepared by a committee headed by former chairman of IIM Trichy’s board of governors M Damodaran and finalised after considering the observations and suggestions of the IIMs. “The observations and suggestions of the IIMs were considered ...

News: There exist around 600 international schools in the country, all of them affiliated to three foreign boards — the International Baccalaureate (IB) based in Geneva, Cambridge International Education (CIE) and Edexcel based in the UK. According to a survey commissioned by the ministry, the number of IB schools alone ...

News: Based on a complaint by Kapil Kumar, professor of history in Indira Gandhi National Open University,  HRD ministry has instituted an inquiry into allegations of malpractices going back to 1970’s in the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and also sought a review of its functioning. Kumar was member-secretary ...

News: The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has developed a “Know Your College” portal to help the students make an informed decision on the choice of college and the courses. This portal covers almost 10,500 colleges which conduct about 14,000 programs in Technical Education and 35000 colleges ...