Jodhpur: The delay in construction of the campuses of the eight new IITs has not affected the "standards of education" and pace of research, Union Minister of Human Resource Development MM Pallam Raju said here on Wednesday.
Referring to IIT-Jodhpur, he said that the institution has done remarkable job in the field of solar energy and promoting entrepreneurship. Attributing the delay to the issues like land acquisition, he said in spite of this delay, the IITs have been faring well as expected from their respective temporary campuses, adding, now a few of them have started construction of their permanent campuses.
Raju was here to lay the foundation stone of the first phase of the construction of the IIT-Jodhpur's campus, one of the 8 new IITs which have been announced under the 11th Five year plan....
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01:07 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: The council of National Institute of Technology (NITs) met here on Tuesday to deliberate on options for normalisation of class XII marks across school boards, but there was no consensus. Sources said the next round of meeting to hammer out a solution is likely next week, even as students across the country are already in midst of appearing for the Joint Entrance Examination 2013 under the new format...
02:00 PM, Apr 11, 2013
The government on Tuesday rejected the demand of some states of extending RTE deadline on meeting infrastructure norms but asked them to act tough on schools which are lagging far behind in implementing them. Amid concerns over schools which have failed to meet the RTE obligations by the March 31, 2013 deadline, HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju said the states have the rights to decide on such schools as well...
04:30 AM, Apr 03, 2013
The deadline for meeting the infrastructure provisions under the Right To Education came to an end on Sunday, with widespread apprehension about the closure of schools which have failed in implementing them. Even as the Human Resource Development Ministry has turned down request from some states to extend the deadline, reports suggest that hundreds of schools across the country are lagging far behind in implementing the infrastructure norms. ...
11:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The Government on Saturday ruled out extending the deadline beyond March 31 for schools to meet RTE requirements even as it conceded that many states were lagging behind and said a committee is being set up to expedite the implementation process. ...
11:16 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Five out of 10 school students of class V in rural India cannot solve simple arithmetic problems, says a nationwide survey on education. Putting a question mark on the quality of education imparted, the findings of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASAR) said while in 2010 more than half of class V students were able to read class II level texts, the proportion came down to 46.8 per cent...
01:03 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Private schools are increasingly becoming sought-after even for students in rural India. Enrolment in them has risen by about 10 per cent in just six years, said an official report on Thursday. ...
12:24 PM, Jan 18, 2013
With the deadline for the Centre's decision on the vexatious Telangana statehood issue approaching fast, the war of words between leaders of Telangana and Andhra-Rayalaseema regions has escalated. While Andhra-Rayalaseema leaders are brushing aside their Telangana counterparts' claims on "signals" of formation of a new state as "mere speculation," the latter aver that the former are in a state of "desperation" as Telangana state would become a reality soon. ...
06:08 PM, Jan 16, 2013
There is a need to create intellectual property with proprietary rights by enhancing the knowledge base and help the country emerge as a major power, Union HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju said on Thursday. ...
11:51 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister MM Pallam Raju on Thursday said the government would take all measures to ensure women are safe inside the campuses of universities and other educational institutions. ...
09:19 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The government was trying to resolve various impediments including shortage of teachers to ensure that every child in the country has access to elementary education by 2017, Union HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju said on Monday. ...
12:22 AM, Jan 01, 2013
New Delhi: Yet another textbook in a CBSE school has sparked a controversy by allegedly insinuating that non-vegetarians lie, cheat and commit crimes, with the Government terming it as "unfortunate" and asking state bodies to remain alert about such content and monitor them. "Sensitivities of communities have to be kept in mind. I think its unfortunate, an occasional aberration happens. But what I would request is that the state body...
10:14 AM, Nov 17, 2012
Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor ha said that a number of pending legislations pertaining to HRD ministry will be passed during the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament despite possible opposition from some Congress MPs. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said a lot of persuasion will be required to convince Parliamentarians rather than pushing for enactment of the legislations. He also ruled out the possibility of...
10:37 PM, Nov 04, 2012
The former junior defence minister Pallam Raju has got a promotion. He is the new Human Resource Development Minister. Speaking to reporters, he said that the reshuffle had rectified the representation of Andhra Pradesh in the Cabinet. He added that it was time to strengthen the party base in the southern state. ...
03:48 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday articulated Tamil Nadus collective political outrage over Union Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Rajus assertion that Sri Lankan defence personnel would continue training in India, saying it smacked of total insensitivity. I am surprised to learn that the Government of India has openly declared that the said training will go on since Sri Lanka is a friendly country. This betrays...
10:38 AM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Noting that China has more resources to dedicate for modernisation of its defence forces, government on Thursday asserted that India is not "under-prepared" in anyway and is also acquiring capabilities to build its infrastructure along the border for security needs. "China's budget is four times that of India so they will definitely have larger resources dedicated to that (for modernisations purposes)," Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam...
04:10 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju has said that "someone" in the government "may have read too much" into the movement of two key army units towards Delhi in January. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said that there are protocols that exist where somebody has to be informed or somebody has to be kept in the loop. Here is the full transcript of...
08:30 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Bangalore: Selection of French fighter Rafale as the multi-role medium combat aircraft (MMRCA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) was final and the price negotiations were under way, Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said on Friday. "The decision to purchase Rafale is final and we are in the stage of price negotiations," Raju told reporters on the margins of a defence expo here. Clarifying that there were...
01:19 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Army has placed orders for 100 artillery guns with the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) after having failed to acquire even a single howitzer in over two decades following the Bofors scandal. The Army has issued several tenders for procuring different types of howitzers in the last two decades but has failed to do so due to some problem or the other. "The Army has placed orders...
06:58 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Kolkata: The government on Tuesday said that there was no "secret information" on the helicopter that strayed into Pak-controlled territory and could have got into Pakistani hands. "There was no secret information on that helicopter," said Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju. Dismissing reports in a section of the media that Pakistan had downloaded information from the strayed helicopter about helipads of the Army's 14 Corps, he...
05:54 PM, Oct 25, 2011
