This raid was conducted following complaints of irregularities in admissions to seats reserved for NRI students, CBI officials said.

“During the last few days, we had received a couple of complaints regarding students taking admissions in various engineering streams at the PEC under NRI quota by procuring forged documents. Therefore, we conducted a surprise raid at the PEC campus today,” Mahesh Aggarwal, deputy inspector general of the CBI, Chandigarh, told IANS Wednesday.

“During the raid, we have found gross irregularities in the documents submitted by some students. We have booked 11 engineering students and several others and started our investigation,” he added.

CBI sources said that the agency had received complaints that irregularities had been committed by the college authorities in admissions to NRI seats.

“We have seized some documents for further scrutiny. We will see whether any PEC official is involved in this racket,” said Aggarwal.

The PEC is a leading engineering institution in the region and is run by the Chandigarh administration.

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“Why are other government schools not as good? One-fourth the teachers in 10+2 rural schools remain absent. Admissions take place in good numbers but children who leave studies midway are sizeable,” Gandhi said at a function here, launching 31 new JNV buildings across the country via video conferencing.

She said all children had equal right to education and that other government schools should also meet the challenge of providing quality education to all children.

Lauding JNVs, which are residential schools from Class 6-12, she said they had been largely successful in attaining their objectives of providing quality education to talented children from predominantly rural areas.

Gandhi said education in JNVs should meet the requirements of the changing times.

Pointing out that children belonging to weaker sections were often not able to complete their education, she said scholarship schemes of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government should reach them.

Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that the first two JNVs were started in 1985-86 and the government had planned to open a JNV in each district of the country.

He said that 78 percent of children in JNVs were from rural areas and 74 percent were from families where the father’s annual income was below Rs.48,000. He said 40 percent of students were from families where mothers were illiterate.

“Children from these schools have reached heights. The schools have recognised talent in villages,” he said.

Sibal added that the government planned to open JNVs dedicated to sports, culture and vocational education as well.

Manoj Singh, commissioner of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, said that nearly 4,500 children from JNVs get selected into engineering and medical courses and civil services every year.

He said 147 JNV students were selected in IITs and 3,286 in engineering colleges in 2009-10.

The JNVs that were inaugurated Wednesday are spread across various states, including Mizoram, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Haryana.

The National Policy on Education, 1986, envisaged setting up of navodaya vidyalayas with an aim to provide excellence in education coupled with equity and social justice.

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Yang Wei, individual gymnastics gold medalist in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Gao Ling, gold medalist in badminton, are set to lose out on their academic career after the college in which they were enrolled listed them and other 305 students as “would be dismissed” for their failure to finish study within four years, the Shanghai Daily reported.

Yang, who had enrolled in the School of Administration and Management of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Hubei province five years ago, said he didn’t know about the dismissal and will try to get in touch with his school to find out.

Gao, who entered the school a year earlier than Yang, said she was currently working on her master’s degree paper and would contact her tutor as soon as possible.

The authorities said students who feel the action was unjustified could communicate with them in writing.

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The services of these teachers will be regularised with effect from April 1, 2011, a state government spokesman said.

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A school for the poor in Bihar, inspired by Rancho’s iconic school in Bollywood blockbuster “3 Idiots”, has been opened by a scientist to teach complex science theories through games and interactive workshops.

The school will be run by around 10 staff members, including retired teachers — Baidyanath Choudhary and Satya Narayan Singh — and CDRI’s deputy director Naibedya Chattopadhyay as patrons. While Sunil Kumar is the principal, Priyank Kumar, Kundan Sah and Sunil Sharma are teachers. The regular teachers will be paid a consolidated salary of Rs.1,000 per month.

Sudhir Kumar, a scientist working in the biotechnology laboratory of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Pune, has set up a school in his native village of Mirzapur Chand in Bihar’s Begusarai district, about 110 km from Patna.

“Besides formal education up to Class 6, explanation of complex theories of science through fun and interactive workshops conducted by a panel of scientists will be part of the school’s curriculum,” Sudhir Kumar, an assistant professor at IIIT-Pune, told IANS.

The school, which opened Sunday, has a staggered fee structure — free of cost for the poor and different slabs for children with different economic backgrounds.

The governing body of the school will verify the family income of each student and will decide the fee accordingly. Richer parents will be charged more so that education of poor children can be subsidised.

“Education will be free for children belonging to families having no farm land or those of labourers, while kids of well-off parents such as landowners, businessmen, transport contractors, builders, government and private employees having regular income will be charged a monthly fee ranging from Rs. 50 to Rs. 100,” said Sunil Kumar, the principal of the school.

The school will be financially supported by a panel of scientists, including Naibedya Chattopadhyay, deputy director, Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow; Manavi Chatterjee, senior research fellow, Pharmacology Division, CDRI; and Tanaya De, former research fellow, Endocrinology Division, CDRI.

Besides them, international researchers who are extending support to the effort include Shawon Lahiri, Laussane University, Switzerland; Anchal Gussain, Chicago University; Rajiv Kumar Jain, Tartu University, Estonia; Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Seoul University, South Korea; and Elo Madissoon, a research fellow in Karolinska Institute. They will also conduct regular workshops in the school.

“Lectures would be organised with the help of guest faculty who are experts in different walks of life. Students can also interact with their teachers through video-conferencing,” said Kumar.

“The idea of having a school where poor children are encouraged to study science came to my mind many years back. Being a scientist, it is my responsibility to simplify the scientific theory so that they can be utilised by a layman and thus can be more useful for society,” said Kumar.

Initially, the school will enrol 50-100 students in the first batch. The number will increase later as per the infrastructure and availability of teachers.

“After Class 6, our focus will be to get the students admitted to high-end schools such as Sainik School, Tilaiya, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalay and Netarhat Vidyalay and avail scholarship schemes offered by the government for high school students,” he said, adding: “We are also planning to start classes up to 12th standard in this school”.

The classrooms would be equipped with projector screens, computers, internet and all the modern facilities and the children will be encouraged to participate in different activities such as art, music, dance and theatre, he said.

“Before the regular session begins in January next year, classes will be conducted specially for dropouts from September so that they can be registered with open schools,” said Satya Narayan Singh, one of the patrons of the school.

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“We have a foolproof plan for the entry of foreign universities. Any foreign varsity entering India will have to create a $12-million corpus fund and profits will not be allowed to be expatriated to shareholders,” Kapil told reporters here on the margins of a function.

Allaying concerns over the Foreign Educational Institutions (regulation of entry and operation, maintenance of quality and prevention of commercialisation) Bill, Sibal said they would have to re-invest 75 percent of profit in the school or university and the rest would become a part of the corpus fund.

“The bill is in line with the 2020 vision of top management guru C.K. Prahalad to create an educated talent pool with access to higher education for about 200 million people,” Sibal said.

Though foreign universities will have the right to form their own fee structure and admission rules, they will have to function within the purview of the Indian regulatory system, as envisaged in the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009.

“If we realise this vision through universalisation of education, attaining double digit growth and economic prosperity will be possible,” Sibal pointed out.

Sibal was in this tech hub to deliver the Vithal Chandavarkar memorial lecture at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

Chandavarkar was an industrialist, who served as Mayor of Bombay (now Mumbai) and also as vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai.

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The students were injured in a scuffle with police, which used batons against the protesters and arrested many of them, a police official said.

Although the police made elaborate security arrangements in view of the boycott call given by the Osmania University Joint Action Committee (OUJAC) and other pro-Telangana groups, the protesters outnumbered them.

Activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and OUJAC uprooted the security barricades and broke into the college. The police failed to prevent them.

Four MPs of the ruling Congress party and leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) also joined the protesting students.

Despite the boycott and Telangana shutdown called by student groups and pro-Telangana parties and leaders, the APPSC went ahead with the the Group I Prelim exam amid tight security.

Police deployment was marked at 445 centres where the exam began at 10.30 a.m.

Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from different parts of Telangana as the shutdown evoked partial response.

The strike affected services of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corp (APSRTC) in Karimnagar and Warangal districts. The impact was partial in the remaining eight districts including Hyderabad.

Legislators and leaders of the TRS and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were taken into custody in different parts of Telangana.

The pro-Telangana groups were demanding that the exam be postponed till the share of the region in the Group I postings is made clear. They were demanding 42 percent share for the region.

More than 1.6 lakh candidates are writing the exam for recruitment to 198 posts.

“It’s difficult to give voice to any animation film. When we dub for our films, we have to perform as good as you have done on screen, but to do an animation film, where you don’t have the scene, don’t have other characters, don’t know how the scene is actually going to be – keeping all those things in mind you have to give voice to the character,” Manoj said.

The actor said it was difficult to “live up to the expectations” of lending one’s voice to a character like Ram. He had to go through strenuous rehearsals to get the perfect tone required for the film directed by Chetan Desai.

“I had to go through a lot of rehearsals to get into the character. I struggled with each and every word, sentence and the graph of voice to retain the softness and mildness of Ram, yet be aggressive. It was a very difficult task,” Manoj said.

He finished dubbing for “Ramayana” just before playing a character inspired by Mahabharata’s Duryodhan in his recent hit “Raajneeti”.

“Before ‘Raajneeti’, I dubbed for ‘Ramayana…’. It’s a great opportunity for an actor to do such contrasting characters back to back,” he said.

According to Manoj, 3D animation is a great medium to popularise Hindu epics at a time when all children want to watch is “Harry Potter”.

“The kind of time we are living in, people tend to read Harry Potter and watch it. They don’t know the characters of Ramayana and Mahabharata, which are far more superior. They have a larger than life quality in them and this is where the 3D animation is going to do full justice to Ramayana,” the actor said.

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14 015504 PRASANNA KUMAR B K
15 178323 DHAKANE VIKAS NAVANATH
16 002898 ABHISHEK SINGH
17 007428 SATYA BRATA
18 131323 SHRIHARSHA SHETTI
19 007867 RATNESH KUMAR SINGH
20 003279 TAMBAVEKAR CHANDRASHEKHAR ANIL
21 002756 RASHMI SHARMA
22 011053 ESHA PANDEY
23 092794 M SRINIVASU
24 219657 S JAYAKUMAR
25 101985 SAURABH SINGH
26 003385 SHAMBHU KUMAR
27 011952 ANUPAM SAHAY
28 172501 VARISH CHANDRA SHUKLA
29 047012 RITESH KUMAR SINGH
30 019931 VADODARIA KARANJIT PARSOTAM
31 007874 NIMISHA JHA
32 282719 KORGAONKAR CHINMAY NANDKUMAR
33 005077 PRAVEEN KUMAR TRIPATHI
34 008490 B CHANDRA MOHIYAR
35 086887 GHAG SUPRIYA SURENDRANATH
36 034061 MADHUR AGRAWAL
37 007754 APOORVA BHARADWAJ
38 216011 SANJAY KUMAR
39 002563 RAMESH HOLEYACHI
40 016126 GARGI MALIK
41 101472 PAWAN KUMAR
42 086374 SUKHSOHIT
43 005269 D PRAVEEN
44 218804 UMESH PRATAP SINGH
45 006582 SUBRAT PAL
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47 004845 RAJAT MITTAL
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49 297976 PRAVEEN VERMA
50 021081 MUGDHA RANADE
51 031408 PRANJALYA PARTH LATHE
52 214694 SIKANDRA SINGH
53 040010 SUNIL KUMAR PANDEY
54 093002 VISHNU KANT TIWARI
55 139482 PRASHANT MASTIHOLI
56 083144 ARUN GUPTA
57 112412 RAJEEV KUMAR AMBASTA
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59 008246 RAHUL
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71 234821 SHANTHA KUMAR S
72 006098 DINESH KUMAR MISTRY
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75 014444 B VIJAY DATTA
76 056743 PANKAJ KUMAR
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86 006359 NEHA NIGAM
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Source: PIB

The Vice-President’s post bagged by ABVP’s Priya Dabas with 8679 votes while Neetu Dabas of ABVP has been elected for Secretary’s post with 9197 votes. NSUI’s Akshay Kumar has been elected for Jt. Secretary post with 6831 votes.

The polling for DUSU was held on 3rd September. About 37 percent students exercised their vote during the elections and over 933 EVMs were used for the voting. 111 centres and 12 control rooms were established for polls.