Education
HC asks DU to consider admission application of blast victim
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday asked School of Open Learning (SOL), Delhi University, to consider the application of a youth who has lost his father in a blast and is seeking admission in Bachelor of Arts (BA) course.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Hari Shankar directed the SOL to allow the youth to submit his admission application for BA course.
Observing that the last date of admission was September 15, the court directed the SOL to sympathetically consider the application of Rishab Sharma due to the exceptional circumstances.
The court was hearing plea of Sharma who was facing difficulties in getting admission in BA programme at an affiliated college in Delhi University.
The youth’s mother Sangeeta Ashok told the court that her husband was killed in the Delhi High Court bomb blast on September 7, 2011.
She had also informed the court that as per its order, the victims’ children were to be rehabilitated but the university had denied admission to her son because she had not filled the form in a prescribed format. She apprised the court that she was under depression.
The court listed the matter for November 1 for filing of a report by the Delhi Legal Service Authority on the status of other victims of the terror attack.
At least 15 people were killed and 79 injured in an explosion outside Gate Number 5 of the court complex here in 2011.
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Education
As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.