EDUCATION

Move to elevate education board standard
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, July 21
The Board of School Education Haryana has taken a series of measures to raise the standard of education in the government schools. The board aims to raise the education standard to the level of the CBSE.

Giving this information, the newly appointed Chairman of the Board, Brig O. P. Chaudhary, (retd) told mediapersons here last evening that the teachers were responsible for the decline in the standard of education. If they worked hard, the standard of education could be raised in government schools, he said. He emphasised that education did not simply mean distribution of degrees, but preparing responsive citizens.

He disclosed that steps were being taken to provide modern and job oriented vocational education in government schools in a bid to eliminate unemployment in the society. The spread of vocational education, he said, would encourage the students to become self-reliant early in life. Referring to the leakage of papers during the annual examinations held by the board this year, Mr Chaudhary disclosed that steps are underway to prevent such incidents. He said the board was determined to tighten-up the confidential wing.

He said that a high level inquiry has been initiated by the board into the episode, and stern action would be taken against the erring persons involved in the unholy act. He further disclosed that the board would take stringent measures to check the menace of copying in the next annual and supplementary examinations of the board.

Above all, the board would seek the help and cooperation of the teachers as well as the parents of the examinees, he said.

MDU council rejects Faridabad institute’s plea
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, July 21
The Executive Council of Maharshi Dayanand University today rejected the request of Director-Principal, the YMCA Institute of Engineering, Faridabad to exempt the institute from depositing provisional affiliation fee. The university had granted provisional affiliation to the institute for introducing B Tech (Information Technology), MCA, M Tech and one-year Bridge course and demanded provisional affiliation fee of Rs 10 lakh.

The Executive Council, which met here today, also rejected the request of Director-Principal, the Technological Institute of Textile and Sciences, Bhiwani to waive the late fee and penalty amounting to Rs 61,050 for late submission of forms for B Tech December 2002 examinations.

As per the schedule of examinations, the last date for submission of examination forms for Bachelor of Engineering/B Tech for December 2002 examinations without late fee was October 1, 2002 and with late fee of Rs 200, November 1. But the examination forms from the Bhiwani institute were received after October 1, 2002.

The controversial item (No 20) relating to the conversion of the posts of Controller (security), Chief Security Officer and Deputy Chief Security officer into Assistant Registrar, Director of Youth Welfare and Senior Storekeeper respectively was withdrawn. The item was withdrawn from the agenda reportedly on the advice of Haryana Governor-cum-Chancellor of the university.

The petition filed by the Deputy Chief Security officer (under suspension), Mr Ishwar Singh Sharma, challenging the attempted conversion of his post was dismissed by the court today.