Education
1,000 BEd colleges served showcause notice: Official
Kolkata, Dec 2 (IANS) The National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE) has issued showcause notices to 1,000 BEd and DEd colleges for failing to submit requisite data through affidavits, a senior Union Human Resource Development Ministry official said here on Saturday.
“NCTE has already issued 1,000 showcause notices to stop affiliation with NCTE and thereafter, these colleges will not be able to admit students for BEd and DEd courses. 3,000 more showcause notices will be issued soon,” said Anil Swarup, Secretary, School Education and Literacy, in the ministry.
The NCTE has asked 16,000 BEd and D Ed colleges in India to submit affidavit in respect to all the data and only, 12,000 institutes of them filed affidavit, he said.
“I think the biggest mafia in the education sector are some BEd and DEd colleges and some of them do not exist bust exist in names. We took them on,” he said at an interactive session organised by Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce.
He said NCTE engaged Quality Council of India for quality assessment of these colleges.
–IANS
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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.