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  • JEE-Advanced: Slip in successful girl candidate count

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  The big push given by the government to help more girls get into the prestigious IITs may not be yielding much results, at least at the entrance stage. The number of women who have qualified in JEE-Advanced has fallen this year. 

    JEE-Advanced is the entrance test for admission into IITs and NITs. A total of 1,41,699 candidates appeared in both papers. Of the 41,862 who qualified, 6,452 or 15.41% are females. Last year, 6,707 or 15.52% were girls. 

    The government, based on recommendations by an expert panel from the IITs, had decided to raise the percentage of girls in these institutions to 20% by 2020. As in 2017, less than 10% of students in B Tech courses in IITs were girls. 

    For this purpose, for the three consecutive years, around 800-900 supernumerary seats were added in these institutes. As a result, the percentage of girls in IITs had reached 19.90% during the last academic session. Many experts, however, pointed out that while adding supernumerary seats can be a measure to ensure girls’ presence in these institutes, more is required to get them interested in the field of engineering.  

    The results compiled also showed that among those qualified, 7,737 were of the Scheduled Caste category, 2,764 were from the Scheduled Tribes category and 9,150 belong to candidates from Other Backward Classes. In addition, 5,144 candidates categorised as from the economically weaker section from among general candidates were also declared as having qualified the entrance test.  Of the 1,418 persons with disabilities, who had registered for the test, 375 candidates emerged successful.

  • Srishti Goswami of Haridwar became one day CM of Uttarakhand

    Srishti Goswami of Haridwar was made the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand on National Girl’s Day. As one day Chief Minister, Srishti took a review meeting of different departments and saw their presentation. Goswami also gave his important suggestions during the meetings such as providing security to the girl child, complete ban on sale of drugs near colleges. Children’s Legislative Assembly was held in Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha under the chairmanship of Srishti, under the inspiration of state Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and coordinated efforts of Chief Secretary Omprakash and State Women Commission chairperson Usha Negi.

    In this, not only the Child Leader of Opposition Asif Hasan raised the question before the Government in the House but also the Child Chief Minister Srishti and his Child Ministers gave their orderly reply. Chief Minister Rawat termed the proceedings of Bal Sadan as the honor of the girls of the state. He said that such events will help the girls to lose their identity. Rawat said, the children are citizens of tomorrow. These future masters of our country should take the country towards a better direction, for this it is necessary that they should have knowledge of current affairs as well as the work being done at the legislature level. In the program, the child development department informed about crimes related to women and children and the steps being taken for their eradication, while the police department gave ‘Operation Satya’ for child crime, cyber crime, drug de-addiction campaign and child trafficking For example. Apart from this, departments of industry, smart city, education, etc. also made presentations.