Visakhapatnam: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday appealed to human beings to study, analyze and debate the Draft New Education Policy and now not to come to hasty conclusions.
Noting that education’s core troubles had been significant and deserved all stakeholders’ attention, he said reducing the weight of school baggage, promoting sports activities, inculcating morals, clinical and motive temperament, history among others, have to grow to be a part of the curriculum.
His feedback comes in the backdrop of an issue over the recommendation of an HRD ministry panel to train Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states.
The draft of the new National Education Policy, proposed with the aid of the panel constituted through Prakash Javadekar when he changed into HRD minister inside the preceding Modi government, had suggested Hindi’s coaching non-Hindi talking states.
The DMK and other Tamil Nadu events have strongly adversarial the three language formulation’s continuation with upload-on features proposed within the draft National Education Policy alleging it turned into tantamount to “thrusting” Hindi and desired it junked.
Inaugurating a -day convention on ‘Industry Academy Interaction for Improvement of Quality of Academics’ organized by way of the Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), Naidu called for setting up a symbiotic relationship among academia and the industry to create a surrounding for innovation to thrive and generate employment for the adolescents.
For this to be accomplished, he wanted the enterprise to play a greater pro-lively role and set up a robust organic link with the educational institutions.
The Vice-President asked the Industry and academia to look at long-term collaborations instead of joining arms for limited functions and one-off tasks to promote the tradition of studies hugely in our universities and other vital academic institutions.
Naidu advised the company entities to become aware of specific regions of interest and fund doctoral and post-doctoral studies connected to them.
He also entreated them to installation a unique corpus or fund for financing research initiatives that could cause improvements, benefit the society and economy of use of a.
Pointing out that many college students passing out of the portals of higher education establishments have been missing employable skills, Naidu stated firms hiring young graduates had been compelled to impart also on-the-process education from six months to three hundred and sixty-five days.
Calling for a revamp of the schooling gadget, the Vice President stated college students ought to now not most effective be employable but also own existence abilities, language capabilities, technological talents, and entrepreneurial abilities to be gainfully employed self-employed.
Expressing issues over times of atrocities against ladies and gender discrimination, he said the schooling device ought to produce socially responsible residents and referred to as for bringing about an exchange inside the mindset.
Programs like ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ and Swachh Bharat should grow to be human beings’ moves, he added.
Observing that India became known as ‘Vishwaguru,’ Naidu said the country must all over again turn out to be the worldwide hub for information and innovation.
Dabholkar case: Lawyer Sanjeev Punalekar Sent in Judicial Custody Till July 6
Pune: A Pune court on Sunday sent legal professional Sanjeev Punalekar, an accused inside the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, in judicial custody until July 6.
Additional Sessions Judge (unique judge) R M Pande ultimate Thursday granted Punalekar’s custody to the CBI until June 23, after the organization said it recovered some “incriminating documents” from the lawyer’s computer and that he became required to be wondered approximately it.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday told the court it does no longer require any in additional custody of Punalekar, following which the choose sent the accused in
judicial remand until July 6.
The CBI had arrested the lawyer and his assistant Vikram Bhave on May 25. Punalekar became accused of recommending Sharad Kalaskar, one of the shooters, to damage the fireplace hands used in the crime fee.
In advance, the court docket remanded each of the accused in CBI custody till June 1 and later extended it until June 4. The court docket, however, later refused the CBI’s plea to
make bigger custody of the probe corporation and send Punalekar and Bhave in judicial remand on June four.
Later, Punalekar’s counsel moved a bail application. While the argument on it changed into underway, the CBI on Thursday sought his custody to question him approximately some “incriminating files and facts” retrieved from his pc, which changed into seized by way of the vital agency at the time of his arrest. Dabholkar becomes shot useless in Pune on August 20, 2013.