The document released from various cities of the poll-bound state and coined slogan ‘Nav UP, Nav Vikas’ for the development of the state. It mentioned about empowerment of women, SC/ST and other backward class (OBC) through various schemes of the government.

It is notable that 13 states have got the chance to participate in the parade of tableaux on 26th January. These states include Assam, Rajsthan, Goa, Karnataka, W. Bengal, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Punjab, Chhatisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Maharashtra.

States strive hard to get their tableau in the parade every year. Even, many states call for competitive bidding for the purpose so that they could showcase their culture, heritage, progress of their states. But Delhi is probably lacking zeal for the purpose.
However, the city government may stay cool as many other states too are not participating in the event. But children of Delhi will not disappoint the spectators as 350 children Delhi will present their programme on Rajpath on the occasion.

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Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, currently under GGSIP University will be develop as the proposed university. The Cabinet, headed by the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, has given its approval to the draft of the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University Bill – 2012. The bill will be introduced in the Legislative Assembly.

The proposed university will not be an affiliating university like Indraprastha University. The upgradation will provide the opportunity for accelerated growth of women in technical education, technology incubation and product innovation. As per proposal, it is expected that the student strength will increase to almost two times the current strength in next few years.

According to the Chief Minister the new university will help in creation of academic and research environment, imparting global standard technical education to the girls of Delhi.

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Strong opposition has been made by the BCI’s Chairman Ashok K. Parija today in this regard and said that the HRD Ministry is trying to put a regulator of few people on the BCI’s legal study committee, responsible for professional acumen in legal studies and general legal education in the country. The committee is headed by a retired justice of Supreme Court and comprises of sitting Chief Justice of a High Court, UGC Chairman, Law Secretary, top legal professional and five members of BCI. But the proposed new body, comprises of only seven members, including four part time and one chairman, will not only look into affairs related to legal education but also hundreds of universities and educational institutions and various courses. This is not acceptable to BCI, said Parija.

He also alleged that government had been trying to hit federal structure of the country through the bill as the power of recruitment of Vice Chancellors of the universities would be the purview of the new body according to the bill. It is notable that the bill has been introduce aiming to bring all sectors of higher education under one umbrella abolishing bodies like UGC, AICTE and other regulators.

The BCI has given a call for protest day on 20th January. According to Parija lawyers throughout the country will abstain from the courts in protest of bill and inclusion of the legal studies. It is notable that a representation of BCI called on Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid yesterday. Thereafter the BCI has moved ahead with the protest plan.

However, Prime Minister said that the representation of female is growing in the field of science and technology. Citing various schemes for female he said that they are encouraged to join the field of science and technology. Union Minister for Science and Technology Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh too said that his ministry is working in this regard.
Several awards were given away on the occasion by the Prime Minister. These include Ashutosh Mukherjee award to R.Chidambaram, C V Raman award to S Kailash, Homi Jahangir Bhabha Memorial Award to Baldev Raj and others.

Over 1500 scientists and experts from the various fields of science and technology throughout the country and abroad are participating in 99th Science Congress at Bhubaneshawar. These include several Noble Laureates and 500 foreign delegates.

Participating in function in New Delhi, organized by India Center Foundation, Noda talked about universal human values between India and Japan and said that there are several field of co-operation between both countries. He said that there are several plans in for India. He said that over 800 Japanese companies had already made investment in India and working on different projects. According to him many others are planning to come here.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister of Haryana and Arjun Munda, Chief Minister of Jharkhand gave details about the facilities and presence of Japanese companies in the state and said that the state is better destination for the investment. Union Rail Minister Dinesh Trivedi too presented his view on the occasion.

The bill had been placed several times but could not be approved by the Parliament due to different reasons. Pressure of youth power, several civil societies, noted social worker Anna Hazare and other groups mounted on the government as well as other political parties and discussion took place on the issue for several times inside and outside the Parliament and it compelled the government and ruling and opposition parties to take decision in this regard.

The bill has yet to take final shape as it needs approval of the Rajya Sabha and President of India. The bill will provide a mechanism to fight against corruption from top to bottom level through the ombudsman and its other wings. It includes Prime Minister to group ‘C’ level staffs in its purview.

Government report indicates that over 17% students at various IIMs in the country for 2011-12 Post Graduate Management Progammes are female while IITs have just 14% female students. Though the reports about National Institute of Technology (NIT) is slightly better as overall presence of female students is about 18% but overall girls presence is better in the management courses.

According to the data, 2997 candidates got admission in various PGP programmes at different IIMs during 2011-12. Number of female candidates was 516. On the other hand out of 51611 students of IITs only 7595 students are female. There are 9756 students are girls while out of total 53708 students for 2010-11 sessions.

According to the experts, medical profession is still luring female candidates the most but management is another important field where they are focussing now. According to Ashish Kumar, a management consultant, Human Resource Mangement is the most favourite area for them in this regard.

There is another interesting fact is that a good number of management students are belongs to engineering stream. This is true for both male and female candidates. Some people look into online
MBA programs when they want to learn more about management.