Showing posts with label education boost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education boost. Show all posts

Thursday, April 14, 2011

NDA, Naval academy examination on August 21

NDA, Naval academy examination on August 21
New Delhi: The National Defence Academy and Naval Academy Examination (II) 2011 will be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on August 21, 2011 for admission into Army, Navy and Air Force Wings of NDA.

The courses will commence from June 30, 2012.

For details regarding the syllabus and scheme of the examination, centers of examination, centers of examination, guidelines for filling application form etc. aspirants must consult the detailed notice of the examination published in the Employment News/Rozgar Samachar dated April 9, 2011.

Only unmarried male candidates born not earlier than July 2, 1993 and not later than January 1, 1996 are eligible.

Candidates must be physically fit according to the physical standards for admission to National Defence Academy and Naval Academy Examination (II), 2011 as given in Appendix-V of the Commission's notice for the examination published in Employment News/Rozgar Samachar dated April 9, 2011.

Candidates may apply online using UPSC's official website. Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are also available on the website.

Candidates may also apply off-line in the new Common Application Form (Form "E") devised by the commission for its examinations which can be purchased from the designated head post offices/post offices throughout the country against cash payment of Rs.30/- (Rupees Thirty only).

Each such form can be used only once and only for one examination.

The online applications can be filled up to May 9, 2011 till 11.59 PM after which the link will be disabled. Candidates are strongly advised to apply online well in time without waiting for the last date for submission of online application.

All offline applications must reach UPSC at Shahjahan Road, New Delhi either by hand or by post/speed post or by courier, on or before the May 9, 2011.

However, in respect of candidates residing abroad or in certain remote localities specified in the notice the last date for receipt of application by Post/Speed Post only (not by Hand or by Courier) is 16th May, 2011.

In case of any guidance/information/clarification regarding their applications, candidature etc. candidates can contact UPSC's Facilitation Counter near gate 'C' of its campus in person or over telephone.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Education boost: Govt fails to make elementary sense


If one analyzes the fine print of the education budget, the finance minister's talk of " demographic dividend" is just big talk.

Increase in allocation to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)—the vehicle for implementing the Right to Education (RTE) Act—from Rs 15,000 crore to Rs 21,000 crore does not reveal the correct picture. Revised estimate for the SSA in 2010-11 had increased to Rs 19,000 crore after the RTE came into force. So, effectively, the increase is Rs 2,000 crore. Madhav Chavan of NGO Pratham said, "The overall increase in elementary education to Rs 29,000 crore from last year's Rs 26,000 crore is good enough only for inflation adjustment."

The bigger problem with elementary education allocation is the way the government has abdicated its responsibility. Nearly Rs 18,000 crore to elementary education comes not from gross budgetary support, but through Prathmik Shiksha Kosh—the non-lapsable fund where 2% education cess is collected.

Following protests from the HRD ministry, the mid-day meal scheme has got Rs 10,380 crore compared to last year's Rs 9,440 crore.

In higher education, institutions—mostly in poll-bound states—have got a one-time grant. These range from Rs 200 crore to IIT-Kharagpur to Rs 50 crore each to AMU centres in Bengal and Kerala and Rs 100 crore to Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University. For Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, TN, and Madras School of Economics, it is Rs 20 crore.

Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University expects to start work on a Hindi dictionary with a grant of Rs 10 crore.

Pre-matric scholarship for SC/ST students had been in the works for a long time. The FM's announcement is a step in the right direction. 

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