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  • Jharkhand govt ropes in IIM to train teachers posted in Model Schools

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: To ensure quality education, the Jharkhand government will convert 27 Zila Schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) into Model Schools. 

    Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that the principals and teachers deputed in these schools will be trained by IIM, XLRI, NCERT, and NEIP.

    Infrastructure development in 53 more schools will also be done and get them affiliated to CBSE. In the second phase, 500 schools will be developed as a school of excellence under the ‘Adarsh Vidyalaya Scheme’ while in the third phase, the state government is planning to have Model schools in every Panchayat, Soren said.

    The CM further said that his government is committed to making the ‘Adarsh Vidyalaya Scheme’ so that the government schools can be made at par with national and international standards in terms of accessibility, equality, and quality education.

    “With the help of premier institutes such as IIM, XLRI, NCERT, and NEIP, principals and teachers deputed in these ‘Model Schools’ will be given focused training as per the national and international standards,” said the Chief Minister. These training programmes will be focused on developing the competence and leadership capacity of the principals and teachers, he added.

    The CM added that in order to ensure student-centered teaching, subject-wise training will be provided to the teachers posted in these schools on a timely basis to develop the technical capacity of the subject among teachers and smart management of the classroom.

    Model Schools will cater to the requirement of students from pre-primary level to class 12th. The scheme aims to admit 1,000 to 1200 students to these schools where admission will be done on the basis of merit.

  • Jharkhand government will provide help to people of state trapped in Uttarakhand disaster: CM Hemant Soren

    Jharkhand government #39;s Labour Department has opened a control room to help the people of the state trapped in the natural disaster in Uttarakhand.

  • HC refuses withdrawal of woman’s rape plea against Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has said it is not inclined to permit the withdrawal of a petition filed by a woman, who had made rape allegations against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

    On Monday, a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale said it will hear the woman’s plea on February 18.

    The woman approached a metropolitan magistrate’s court here in 2013, alleging that she had been raped by Soren in a hotel in Mumbai.

    The same year, she filed a withdrawal application before the court in Bandra, stating that she wished to withdraw the allegations and her complaint.

    The court at that time allowed it to be withdrawn.

    In August last year, she approached the Bombay High Court, stating that she had met with an accident and Soren might be behind the accident.

    The woman had sought that an FIR be registered against Soren again.

    Last month, she filed a plea in the HC, stating that she had decided to change her lawyers.

    On Monday, the new lawyers appearing for the woman again submitted that she wished to withdraw the petition filed before the high court for seeking registration of the FIR.

    The bench, however, said it was “not inclined at this stage to accede to the prayer made” by the woman.

    The state’s counsel, Deepak Thakare, sought time to file a closure report in the case.

    Meanwhile, two intervention applications were filed in the HC last week seeking to intervene in the case.

    One of the applications was filed by a Jharkhand-based former journalist Sunil Kumar Tiwari, and the other by one Stree Roshni Trust.

    The trust has approached the HC through senior lawyer Satish Maneshinde.

    Both the applicants have sought that the woman not be allowed to withdraw the case.

    The HC will hear the intervention applications and the woman’s plea on February 18.

  • Government under misconception that only Punjab, Haryana farmers in battle against agri laws: Soren

    The Jharkhand CM also said that if the farmers #39; agitation is not dealt with empathetically by the government, it will soon spread to different parts of the country.

  • COVID-19 vaccine should be administered to PM, all state CMs first, says Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: A day before the launch of COVID-19 vaccination drive in the Country, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in a live TV programme, said that the vaccine should be administered to the Prime Minister and all Chief Ministers first to avert panic among the people of this country.

    “I think, vaccination must be done covering everyone for which I have been pleading before the Central Government since long. But, at the same time it has become an event management, due to which it probably has created a sense of panic among the people of this country. Therefore, the vaccine must beadministered to the Prime Minister and all Chief Ministers first, who are sitting on  the most responsible positions,” said CM Soren.

    Whatever implies to us also implies to our health workers, he added.

    Notably, Soren will personally be interacting with those who will be administered COVID-19 vaccine at Sadar Hospital in Ranchi on Saturday.

  • Jharkhand Governor summons CM Hemant Soren over increasing crimes against women

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: Governor Droupadi Murmu summoned Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday and expressed concern over increasing rape incidents and crimes against women in Jharkhand. She told CM Soren that such incidents malign the image of the state. Soren assured her that action will be taken soon after proper investigation into the matters.

    Earlier, the Governor also talked to Jharkhand Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan over the phone and asked to set up fast track courts for rape cases and crimes against women so that such cases could be disposed of without delay and culprits could be punished accordingly.

    “The accused, who have been arrested immediately, should also be put behind bars so that deterrence could be created among criminals and such incidents may be checked,” said Murmu. The Jharkhand High Court, by taking such steps, may set up an example in bringing down the incidents of rape and crime against women, she added.

    Meanwhile, a delegation of BJP Women’s cell, headed by Koderma MP Annapurna Devi, also met the Governor and appraised her about the increasing incidents of rape, crime against women and murder in the State.