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HPBOSE Faces Flak for Charging Rs 2000 Late Fee for Compartment Exams
Shimla-Students of Class 10 and 10+2 have complained of hefty late fee imposed by Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education, Dharamshala, for the compartment examination. The actual fee was Rs 450 per subject and now, after the due date of submission of applications, the students are paying Rs 2450 per subject with a late fee of Rs 2000.
The students enrolled in government schools mostly hail from the weaker section of society who cannot afford private schools due to their hefty fee structures.
Two major student organizations of Himachal Pradesh, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Student Federation of India (SFI) condemned this fee hike alleging that the students could not apply timely due to an error on the part of the HPBOSE. The Government is encouraging private schools with its policy of closing government schools, SFI said while staging a protest on November 30.
“The Board invited online applications but did not issue the payment gateway link to school managements, therefore, students could not apply in time. Secondly, when the gateway started to work, the fee was hiked from Rs 450 to Rs 2450,”
said ABVP.
“Now, the Board is washing its hands off and holding students responsible for not applying before the last date without late fees,”
ABVP said.
The Organization said it is not justifiable for the Board to blame students for its mistake.
The Organization gave an ultimatum to the Board and demanded that this decision should be withdrawn by Monday and students should be allowed to apply with a fee of Rs 450. It warned of a state-wide agitation if the decision is not withdrawn.
Speaking to Himachal Watcher, the Public Relation Officer, HPBOSE, Anju Pathak, said that the board did not make any hike in late fees. The provision for late fee already exists.
Refuting the allegations that the payment gateway was not working, she said,
“It was working fine. We have looked into it. It’s just the carelessness on the part of the students,”
the PRO said.
“About 85 percent of students had filled their forms before the last date. They had the chance to apply between 9 to 31 October with a fee of only Rs 450. The last date was extended and the students were given a second chance to submit their applications till November 15 with a late fee of Rs 1000. It’s the third chance for which already notified fee of Rs 2000 is being charged,”
she told HW.
“A group of students today met the Chairman, who convinced them that only notified late fee is being charged. The students have demanded an extension so that they could fill their forms,”
Further, student outfits also raised questions over the poor quality of clothing provided to the students of the government schools under the Atal School Uniform scheme.
The government issued distributed free uniform to lakhs of students after a delay of two years. However, despite this delay, the quality of the clothes provided is very poor, ABVP said. Similar poor quality uniforms were distributed during the regime of the previous government and a penalty was imposed on the contractor. However, the student outfit said, imposing penalty doesn’t change the quality of already distributed uniforms.
The Organization suspected a possible scam behind it. The government talks about offering quality in education when it can’t even distribute good quality uniforms to students.
The state government also faced flak over the distribution of poor quality bags of the same size to all students. These bags have become a mere show-piece.
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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