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NEP Will Sow Seeds for Starting a New Era, Give New Direction to 21St INDIAN12 September, 2020 | Saturday | Volume No: 8| Issue No: 148 Pages: CHRONICLE8 www.indianchronicle.com Published from : Ranga Reddy (Telangana State) 3 Owaisi demands TS govt to prosecute encroachers of Telangana helped 1133 students to study endowment and wakf lands abroad: Gangula Kamalakar AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi has demanded Telangana Govern- As many as 1133 students of backward classes from Telangana have been ment to take stringent action against those encroached upon the endowments provided with an overseas scholarship to study abroad, said BC welfare minister and Wakf lands. Participating in the debate on new Revenue Bill in the Assem- Gangula Kamalakar in the assembly session. Responding to the question posed bly, he expressed serious concern over increasing illegal occupation of lands by Bollam Mallaiah Yadav, the minister said that between 2017-18 to 2019-20, a owned by state endowment department, Temple trusts and wait board. total of 1133 students from BC, EBC were benefitted with the scholarship. Around The MIM leader suggested the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to put 190 students between 2016-17, 443 between 2017-18, 321 between 2018-19 an end the registration of wakf and temple lands by bringing new acts. and 170 between 2019-20. NEP will sow seeds for starting a new era, Court denies bail to Rhea give new direction to 21st-century India: Modi Chakraborty, Showik and 4 others Mumbai, September 11 New Delhi, September 11 subject at a later stage will A special court in Prime Minister have the freedom to do so. Mumbai on Friday denied Narendra Modi on Friday Limitations in the current bail to Rhea Chakraborty said when India would com- system is the main reason and her brother Showik, ar- plete 75 years of Indepen- for a large number of drop- rested by the NCB in con- dence in 2022, students outs but under the new sys- nection with a drug-related should be learning as per tem, students will have free- case pertaining to the death the New Education Policy dom,” he said. of actor Sushant Singh (NEP) 2020. Education was much Rajput. “This is our collective more than marks and mark- Their bail applications responsibility,” he said, ad- sheets, he said. were rejected by judge GB dressing a conclave on “‘Marks kitney aye?’ Gurao of the special court ‘School Education in 21st Everything stops at that. But hearing cases filed under Century’ under the NEP- can one test or mark sheets the Narcotic Drugs and Psy- 2020. and judge the potential of a Narendra Modi delivered chotropic Substances While seeking to allay student? Marksheets has student can learn better in a the inaugural address at the (NDPS) Act. reservations regarding the become ‘pressure sheet’ for language he or she speaks ‘Conclave on Transforma- The court also rejected National Education Policy students and ‘prestige at home. Till Class V, the tional Reforms in Higher the bail pleas of four other 2020, including on the issue sheet’ for families,” he said, medium of education should Education under NEP-2020’ accused in the case — Abdul of language, the Prime Min- adding; “There should be be local and mother tongue. on August 7 and also ad- Basit, Zaid Vilatra, Dipesh ister stated that with the NEP many parameters to assess- Any other language can be dressed the Governors’ Sawant and Samuel 2020, students would learn ment, including self-assess- taught alongside there is no Conference on the NEP- Miranda. under a curricular that is for- ment and peer-assessment.” restriction but we have to promote all languages in the 2020 on September 7. Special Public Pros- ward-looking and scientifi- “It has to be a holistic day after three days of ques- The NCB is probing the bile phones of Rhea. country.” The NEP 2020 is the ecutor Atul Sarpande had cally oriented in order to report card instead of marks tioning, is currently in judi- drug angle in this case un- Various angles sur- first education policy of the opposed their bail saying make the country ready for sheet with an assessment of The Prime Minister cial custody. der criminal sections of the rounding the death of Rajput 21st century which was an- Rhea and Showik financed challenges in the 21st cen- unique potential, attitude, also gave several sugges- Showik and Rajput’s NDPS Act after the Enforce- are being probed by the nounced after 34 years of and arranged drugs. tury. skills, talent, competency tions on methods, especially house manager Samuel ment Directorate (ED) NCB, the ED and the Cen- the previous National Policy “It is a curriculum that and possibilities of a stu- practical aspects that can be Rhea, who was ar- Miranda were arrested by shared with it a report follow- tral Bureau of Investigation on Education, 1986. It is di- focuses on critical thinking, dent,” the Prime Minister employed in the new learn- rested by the Narcotics Con- the agency last week. ing the cloning of two mo- (CBI). rected towards major re- creativity, collaboration and added. ing process. trol Bureau (NCB) on Tues- forms in both school and curiosity,” the PM said, add- The Prime Minister “The aim is read to higher education level. ing that students also also said while schools learn rather than learn to needed to be aware about read, which was being fol- The new National Edu- were free to teach any lan- cation Policy aims at mak- coding, artificial intelligence, guage, the main medium of lowed till now. Till Class III, India, China agree on 5-point plan ing India into an equitable data science and robotics. education till Class V has to all children should have and vibrant knowledge so- While the earlier sys- be the mother tongue or the foundational literacy and ciety. It envisions an India- tem was limited, the new local language. numeracy,” he said at the centred education system policy offers many opportu- two-day conclave on the “We need to under- September 10 and 11 as a that contributes directly to to ease LAC tensions nities. stand that language is a part of the Shiksha Parv. transforming India into a New Delhi, September 11 “Students who feel that medium of education, lan- Global Superpower, accord- India and China they want to change their guage is not education. A Earlier, Prime Minister ing to officials. agreed on a five-point ap- proach that entails further talks to end tensions on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) GHMC saved Rs 568 crore because following talks between GHMC saved Rs 568 crore because their Foreign Ministers that saw both of them touch on the linkages between bilat- eral ties and the border prob- of TDR says KT Rama Rao lem. scheme so far. He said that Sources here said the Hyderabad: The the quota at this juncture is meeting saw the Indian side GHMC has saved to the tune only 300 students per year seeking disengagement in of Rs 568 crore by imple- and the government will try all the friction areas with the menting the Transfer of De- to expand the scheme in the military commanders to work velopment Rights (TDR) coming years. He reminded out the phasing of final de- scheme through which road that the Rs 20 lakh amount ployment to permanent widening in Hyderabad has given to students going posts. The Chinese side was been put on fast track. Min- abroad is not a loan but a also told that its large amass- ister for Municipal Adminis- grant. ing of troops had created tration and Road Develop- several flash points along ment KT Ram Rao speaking Telangana assisted the LAC. during question hour in As- 4,10,768 migrant workers sembly on Friday said that Labour Minister Ch A joint statement at the It quoted Jaishankar as LAC which “is not in the in- fairs, maintain peace and TDR scheme which was in- Malla Reddy has said that end of the two-and-a-half- saying that India “does not terest of either side”, tranquillity in the border ar- troduced for the first time in the Telangana government hour discussion in Moscow consider the development of Jaishankar and Wang said eas and avoid any action the country, has proved to has assisted 4,10,768 mi- between Foreign Ministers S bilateral relations as depen- both sides would continue that could escalate matters. be a successful instrument grant labourers to reach their Jaishankar and Wang Yi dent on the boundary ques- dialogue at three levels - in speeding up acquisition home States during saw concurrence on the tion and India does not want through the Special Repre- of land for road widening. lockdown out of which path to resolving the ten- Jaishankar’s interac- sions but their narratives di- to go backwards”. sentative mechanism, Work- TDR means making 3,72,000 were sent back by tion follows another one held verged on whether the bor- Sources here did not ing Mechanism for Consul- available a certain amount hiring 151 Shramik special last week between Defence der issue is linked to the contest this Chinese asser- tation and Coordination and of additional built up area in trains. Giving reply to ques- Minister Rajnath Singh and overall trajectory of bilateral tion about Jaishankar. But field commanders level. lieu of the area relinquished tions raised by Kaleru his Chinese counterpart, Venkatesh, the Minister said relations. they contradicted the Chi- The ministers agreed also in Moscow, where both or surrendered by the owner dertaken in old city Rs 477 formed that so far 1133 stu- that 77,555 workers have so nese quote about that as the situation eases, ministers set out their re- of the land, so that he can crore was allocated for gen- dents belonging to the BC The Chinese embassy far returned to Telangana Jaishankar indirectly by say- the two sides should expe- spective positions on restor- use extra built up area either eral roads, Rs 228 crore for community have availed the e-mailed a version of the and the district collectors ing that the recent incidents dite work to conclude new ing normalcy on the LAC.
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