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Hooda strives to make Haryana an educational hub

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To increase the intake of technical institutes

Rajiv Gandhi Education City being set up
A women’s university already established

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Wednesday that though the Government had already increased the intake capacity of technical institutes from 23,000 to 48,000, it would try to increase it further to enable the youth to avail of employment opportunities.

Speaking at a function organised by the Haryana Board of School Education at his residence here to mark Children’s Day, he said he was concerned that about 1.5 lakh youth commute to Gurgaon daily from Delhi to work in BPOs and other IT-enabled services. This situation should be reversed, he asserted, adding that to achieve this goal his regime had taken several steps that would improve the quality of education.

Mr. Hooda gave away gold and silver medals and Kalpana Chawla Awards to 26 students who had attained first and second positions in the final examinations of middle, secondary (matriculation) and senior secondary examinations, both academic and vocational, in March 2006 and March 2007. He also gave away trophies to 42 government and private recognised schools which had attained first three positions on the basis of their result and performance.

He reiterated that the Rajiv Gandhi Education City was being set up over an area about 2,000 acres where he intended to get world class educational institutes to provide the best education to the students. It would be mandatory for these institutes to reserve 25 per cent of their seats for students from Haryana.

A women’s university had already been set up at Khanpur Kalan in Sonepat district, making Haryana the first State to have such a university in North India.

While paying rich tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr. Hooda said he loved the children immensely and was fondly called “Chacha Nehru”.

Haryana Education Minister Mange Ram Gupta said the Government was concerned about alleged incidents of misbehaviour of teachers with their girl students. He announced that those teachers who indulged in such practices would not only lose their job but criminal cases would also be registered against them.

Government schools

He said it was a matter of concern that despite giving good salaries to teachers and providing all facilities to students for education the results of government schools were not as good as that of private institutions. The Government had decided that no teacher would be transferred after October 31. Only those teachers who would give excellent results would be transferred to the station of their choice.

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