[New Delhi] Smart India Hackathon at 28 Centres
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology today announced that the much awaited Smart India Hackathon 2018 – is scheduled to be held on Mar 30 & 31, 2018 simultaneously at 28 different nodal centers across India. With 27 union Ministries and Departments and 17 State Governments having joined this grand initiative, SIH2018 is much bigger than its previous edition. Hyderabad is the nodal centre for Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, which is a ‘Premier Partner’ in this initiative. Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY said that “Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2018 would give an opportunity to students to use their creative skills in solving some of the country’s real life problems and he hoped that outcome of SIH 2018 will result in innovative solutions which can be commercialized”
340 software problem statements are proposed for the above event. Winners stand to get cash prizes and a chance to be part of the NASSCOM’s 10,000 Startups program.
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The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar addressing a press conference relating to Smart India Hackathon-2018, in New Delhi on March 22, 2018.
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Smart India Hackathon at 28 Centres with 340 Software Problem
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan In 3.63 Lakh Schools:HRD
[New Delhi] Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in 3.63 lakh schools:HRD Minister
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), has provided 2.04 lakh primary and 1.59 lakh upper primary schools across the country to ensure universal access,
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said today.
Universal enrollment is the first goal of SSA and all efforts are being made to bring all children, including girls, to school, he said during Question Hour in Lok Sabha, amidst noisy protests by the Opposition over demonetisation issue.
Javadekar said SSA strategies for promotion of girls education include opening of schools in the neighbourhood to make access easier for girls, appointment of additional teachers, including women teachers, free textbooks, free uniforms, separate toilets for girls, teachers sensitisation programmes to promote girls participation, gender-sensitive teaching-learning materials, including textbooks.
In addition, the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalays have been opened in educationally backward blocks where female rural literacy rate is below the national average to provide residential upper primary schools for girls from SC/ST/OBC/ Muslim and BPL families.
The Minister said under the mid-day meal scheme, central financial assistance is being provided to all states and UTs for implementation of the scheme.
Under the scheme, all states and UTs were providing mid-day meals to children, including adolescent girls studying in class-I to VIII of government, government aided, special training centres and madrasas and Maqtabs under the SSA.
LinkedIn CEO Jeff To Utilize Social Media In Education Sector
[New Delhi]LinkedIn CEO meets HRD minister Javadekar To Utilize Social Media In Education
Jeff Weiner Met Indian HRD minister Prakash Javadekar To explore the possibilities of utilising the reach of social media in education sector
Emerging from the meeting Javadekar said it was fruitful discussion adding that the ministry is open to good ideas.
“We had very fruitful discussion and we are sure there are many things which we can do jointly and we are interested in increasing research and innovation and relevant teaching and placements thereafter to happen in all college campuses and all our technical institutes,” Javadekar said.
“We have more than 10,000 engineering colleges, therefore we have discussed many things and our AICTE and our department ministry will definitely work with good ideas,” he added.
Linkedin CEO Weiner said he was excited to meet the HRD minister and said that Linkedin is focusing on making products in India and for India
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The CEO of LinkedIn, Mr. Jeff Weiner meeting the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar, in New Delhi on September 13, 2016.
Kashmiri Students Expressed Gratitude For Centre’s Positive Approach
[New Delhi]Kashmiri Students Expressed Gratitude For Hearing Their Problems In Home Ministry
Students express their gratitude to Home Minister for his deeper heartfelt concern to their problems
On hearing the problems of non-disbursement of scholarships to students from Jammu and Kashmir in some institutions at Jaipur through media on September 03, 2016, the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at his own initiative had spoken to the Education Minister of Rajasthan and obtained the phone numbers of some of the students.
On talking to them, he learnt that the students had some difficulties in getting their scholarship under the Prime Minister Special Scholarship Scheme.
The Union Home Minister had asked the Education Minister of Rajasthan to sort out the operational difficulty by Monday (5th September, 2016), and had invited the students to meet him in Delhi,
A delegation of over 30 students representing all the three regions Jammu+Kashmir+Ladakh met and had discussions with the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, here on 8th September
These students studying in Rajasthan, Haryana and other states presented their issues.
The students after meeting the Union Home Minister and HRD Minister and Chairman, AICTE were fully satisfied with approach adopted by the Central Government. They profusely expressed their sincere gratitude to the initiative taken by the Home Minister, concern of all to their problem and extra ordinary approach for solving them.
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A group of students from Jammu and Kashmir studying in other states, interacting with media at the residence of the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on September 08, 2016.
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