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Himachal’s Virtual Classroom Program: Satellite connected learning in 280 school and 4 DIETs, claims CM
VTCs to provide equal opportunity of learning to rural & urban students ,Satellite connected learning to 280 schools and four DIETs, 7000 school teachers given training of ICT using internet and e-contents
SHIMLA- Valuable Edutainment Group, Mumbai, gave a presentation in Government Senior Secondary School, Phagli demonstrating digital education’s better utilization of virtual classrooms technology provided with best talented teachers from India through Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Technology
Technology best suits the State where schools are located in far flung and remote areas. This will help reduce the huge gap between the city students and the students of rural areas as it will offer an equal opportunity to all the students to reap the benefits of the virtual classrooms. The Virtual Training Centers (VTC) will certainly help the students in direct interactive session with top and talented teachers, while sitting in their classrooms.
Learning through this technology would certainly become more entertaining with use of smart boards and audio-visual contents and it will further clear the doubts of the students during live lectures.
The Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was also present and watched the presentation.
Himachal is one of the leading state in field of education with literacy percentage at 88 percent and I hope that virtual classrooms would help us to improve a lot providing ample opportunities to the students to learn,
said the CM.
He claimed that under the Virtual Classroom Programme, the State will provide satellite connected learning to 280 schools and four District Institutes of Education Training (DIET). There would be four schools in each legislative constituency in the State.
Under National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF), Information and Technology (IT) based education is being provided free of cost in 385 schools in Himachal covering approximately 15000 students, he claimed.
As per claims made by the Principal Secretary (Education), RD Dhiman, under Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), Scheme of Government of India, 628 schools of the State were selected in 2005-06 and during the second phase 1525 schools were added in the year 2015. At present 2138 schools were covered under the scheme and 50 schools have their own multimedia centers. He further claimed that 7000 school teachers were given training in the use of ICT using internet and e-contents.
Sanjay Chavan the Chief Technology Officer from Mumbai, also explained as to how VSAT was an uninterrupted technology during all weather conditions, which would help the students to enhance their learning experience. He said experts teachers from the key cities can be appointed to conduct live lectures and address the problems of the students in any subject they want. Valuable Group undertakes all the responsibility of training the teachers to operate the gadgets and other modern equipments in the studio and to make them proficient in delivering lectures besides training to teachers in schools to operate VTC equipments.
The students of GSSS, Phagli also asked live questions from an expert teacher sitting in Mumbai in the central studio besides they could see and listen to the answers given by expert teachers as were being asked by the children of Mumbai school on the screen.
File Photo/Himahchal Watcher: Representational
Solan: Naincy Sagar, an alumna of Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni has bagged a fellowship for pursuing PhD from France. Nancy has reached France and will be pursuing PhD in Forest Genetics from the University of Orléans under INRAE fellowship. INRAE is France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Naincy has completed her BSc Forestry from College of Horticulture and Forestry (COH&F), Neri in 2018 and MSc Forest Biology and Tree Improvement and Genetic Resources from UAS, Dharwad, under ICAR’s National Talent Scheme. Before leaving for France last week, Naincy was working as a Junior Research Fellow in a research project at COH&F, Neri.
She had applied for a PhD with a scholarship in Forest Genetics which was advertised by INRAE. Naincy was successful in the interview and was awarded a fellowship for three years for pursuing PhD at the University of Orléans. During the course of the PhD, she will receive a total scholarship of around Rs 70 lakh along with medical reimbursement. Naincy will be working on forest tree larch species in the Project titled ‘Vigour at what cost? ‘Trade-off’ of hybrid vigour in Larch-Phenological, morphological and physiological determinants of hybrid superiority in Larix X eurolepis’ with a team of 20 scientists of Joint Integrated Biology Research Unit having expertise in genetics, genomics and physiology for the enhancement of tree and forest diversity
Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Vice-Chancellor of the university spoke to Naincy via web conferencing and congratulated her. Dr. Kaushal, who has also done his doctorate from France, shared some tips and suggestions. He asked Naincy to explore this opportunity to learn about new cultures along with doing research that could help to enhance and conserve forest wealth in the future.
Naincy expressed gratitude towards her father Satya Prakash Sagar (Retd. SDO BSNL) and mother Monika Sagar, who is working as SDO in BSNL for their continuous support for higher studies. She also thanked Vice-Chancellor Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Dean Dr. Kamal Sharma and Dr. Dushyant Sharma, Project Investigator and all the university staff for their support and guidance. The university administration, Dean of COH&F Neri congratulated Naincy and wished her success.
Shimla-Dates for admissions to undergraduate courses for the session 2021-22 in colleges affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University has been extended, which has come as a relief to not only those students who were seeking fresh enrollments in the first year but also to the students of the second and third year.
The varsity informed that the decision was taken after considering requests received from various students regarding the same.
Now, willing students can apply for enrollment in both government and private colleges till 5 PM, October 25, 2021.
This extension of date would benefit students who recently passed supplementary exams or those students of the second and third-year who had missed admission due to delay in declaration of their previous results.
Solan– Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, has extended the last date for applying to various Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes in Horticulture, Forestry, Biotechnology, Agribusiness and Business Management. Applicants can submit their complete online application on the university’s admission portal till 18th October.
The normal seats of BSc (Hons) Horticulture, BSc (Hons) Forestry and B Tech Biotechnology will be filled on the basis of scorecard of ICAR-AIEEA (UG) 2021.
Admissions to MSc, MBA (Agribusiness) and PhD (for normal and self-financing seats) will also be conducted on the scorecard of ICAR AIEEA (PG) and AICE-JRF/SRF respectively. Students who have appeared in the ICAR-AIEEA 2021 for UG and PG, or AICE-JRF/SRF examination and are interested in seeking admission, such students must fill the university online application form before 18th October. Undergraduate aspirants who have not appeared in the ICAR test can however apply for the self-financing seats for B Sc and B Tech Biotechnology programmes run by the university by filling the online application on the university website.
The university has also advised the registered candidates to submit complete online application forms along with online payment acknowledgement slip before the due date. The schedule for online counselling will be announced by the University on the website after the declaration of the ICAR examination result. Application forms other than online mode will not be accepted.
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