After Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the nation's premier IITs may see a hike in tuition fees, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday. Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh said the Standing Committee of IIT Council (SCIC) has recommended an increase in the tuition fee for B Tech and M Tech courses. The Board of Governors (BoG) of six IIMs located at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode had decided to increase the fees of the PGP.
Justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and V K Verma also asked the Uttar Pradesh government and the complainant Madhvendra Singh to file their counter-affidavits.
Jayanthi Natrajan, the Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu, contradicted the statement of Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Karunanidhi that the time has come to make Rahul Gandhi the prime minister. "I would like to put it on record that Dr Manmohan Singh and his team have done excellent work. There is no vacancy for the post of prime minister," she said at her first press conference as AICC spokesperson.
Even as consensus eluded on the entry of foreign universities in the country, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday indicated the reservation policy will apply in these institutions.
The opposition has demanded that Arjun Singh apologise.
The move is apparently aimed at introducing the Bill before the end of the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament.
Singh himself inaugurated the Noam Chomsky complex in the campus that will house the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, the Munshi Premchand Archives and Literary Centre and a boys' hostel.
Social and educational basis and not economic criteria should be the basis of reservation, which, he said, would improve the social condition of the OBCs.
Arjun Singh said he will speak after election results are out.
The minister said that IIMs have to amend MoAs to set up centres abroad.
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to entrust the anti-dowry case registered against Arjun Singh and his family members to the CBI.
Senior leader Arjun Singh said the Congress would continue to support the UP government despite rumours to the contrary.
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HRD Minister Arjun Singh was speaking at a UNESCO meet in Paris.
The Minister was speaking on the occasion of International Literacy Day.
"Our legal experts have been on the job and either on Thursday or Friday, we will file our petition before the Supreme court to review its earlier order," Arjun Singh told mediapersons at a press conference in Delhi on Wednesday evening.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has rationalised by up to 30 per cent the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 to reduce course load on students amid the COVID-19 crisis, Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' announced on Tuesday.
The former HRD minister said the Congress is changing the education system of the country under 'unwanted influence of Left ideology'.
With over a million Indians residing in the UAE, there is need to set up more Indian institutes of higher education in the emirates, Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh has said.
Giving a boost to their academic ties, India on Tuesday agreed to help Saudi Arabia in setting up centres of excellence in its universities to promote scientific research and higher studies.
The Union Human Resources Development minister had said that the RSS was involved in Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
The Union human resource development minister allegedly held the RSS responsible for Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
The HRD Minister has said the number of seats may increase.
The students also received support from the Indian Medical Association, which has called for a daylong closure of health services.
The Centre plans to open one of three proposed IITs in the 11th Plan period in Bihar.
'The education system had been revamped and modernised by incorporating human values, the duties of the citizens towards the nation, awareness about ecology,' the former HRD minister said.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has convened the meeting of directors of all IIMs to discuss issues relating to, among other things, autonomy and measures to further strengthen the institutions.
In an apparent softening of his stand, Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday said the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management
22,413 rooms in schools are in a dilapidated condition, in need of extensive repair.
Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani attracted all the media glare after photographs of her meeting an astrologer were published on Monday.
New BJP President L K Advani could not attend due to other urgent engagements
The minister said the quota will be applied to existing number of seats in all centrally aided educational institutes.
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