Education
Cross-ministry committee to review safety norms in schools
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) A six-member committee formed with secretaries from various ministries will review the norms with respect to safety and their implementation in schools, the Women and Child Development (WCD) and Human Resource Development (HRD) ministries decided here on Monday.
The decision was taken in the wake of the gruesome murder of a seven-year old student, Praduman Thakur, on September 8 who was found with his throat slit in the washroom of Ryan International school in Gurugram.
“Committee of six secretaries to be constituted to monitor the implementation and progress measures,” WCD ministry said in tweet.
The secretaries are to come from Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, HRD, WCD, Tribal and Minority Affairs, and Drinking Water and Sanitation.
The HRD and WCD ministers Prakash Javadekar and Menaka Gandhi co-chaired the meeting here to review the safety norms of schools and suggest new measures.
The WCD ministry wrote on Twitter that more meetings will be held in future to “develop a roadmap for implementation of the recommended measures”.
Officials from the Central Board of Secondary Education, NCERT, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Kendriya Vidyalaya Schools were also present at the meet.
Ryan International reopened on Monday after a lapse of 10 days since the incident happened, but announced in the evening that it would remain closed for another week. Ashok Kumar (42), a bus conductor at the school, has been arrested by the police for the crime.
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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.
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