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New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved a new Centrally-sponsored scheme called the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The scheme, submitted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), will leverage the potential of ICT, in providing high quality personalized and interactive knowledge modules over the internet for all the learners in higher education institutions in 'Any-time Any-where mode'. This is expected to be a major intervention in enhancing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education by 5 percentage points during the Eleventh Five year Plan period and in ensuring access and equity in Higher Education, as also recommended by the Oversight Committee and the National Knowledge Commission (NKC). The Mission has two major components viz., (a) content generation and (b) connectivity along with provision for access devices for institutions and learners. An official from the ...

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday gave its approval for strengthening and development of Agricultural Education at a total cost of Rs.2276.65 crores during the Eleventh Plan period. Of the total cost, Rs.1125 crores will be spent on developing and strengthening of Agricultural Universities , Rs.135 crores on niche area of excellence, Rs.250 crores on experiential learning and Rs.125 crores on libraries. The rest of the amount will be used in other areas including educational quality and reforms (Rs.3 crores); human resource development (Rs.216.70 crores); and modernization of Agricultural University farms (Rs.421.95 crores). Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Prithviraj Chavan said, "The Scheme aims to enhance the quality and relevance of agricultural education so that the human resource thus developed can contribute to sustainable development of agriculture and is also able to respond to national challenges and extern...

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave its approval to the revision in the guidelines of Scheme of Assistance for the setting up and upgradation of Institutes of Hotel Management & Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition (IHMs) and Food Craft Institutes (FCIs) across the country. The Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management (IITTM) and National Council of Hotel Management & Catering Technology (NCHMCT) will also be eligible for this assistance. An official release from the Cabinet said: The purpose underlying these efforts is to create institutional infrastructure that could foster and facilitate professional education and training specific to tourism, travel and hospitality industry. The institutional infrastructure, however, not only needs to be expanded constantly in order to meet the ever increasing demand of skilled personnel/professionals, but also needs to be strengthened and upgraded so that it retains/acquires internation...

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave its approval for a revised centrally sponsored scheme for construction and running of girls' hostels for students of secondary and higher secondary schools in each of the educationally backward block during the 11th Five Year Plan. The CCEA also gave its approval to incur and expenditure of Rs.2000 crores as Central share with a sharing pattern of 90:10 between the Centre and the states. The revised scheme provides for construction of 3500 hostels through State Governments in all the educationally backward blocks in the country in addition to recurring grant to meet the needs of inmates.It also approved a scheme named “Providing Quality Education in Madrassas (SPQEM)”, with an expenditure of Rs.325 crores, to encourage traditional institutions like Madrassas/Maktabs/Darululooms to introduce science, mathematics, social studies, language and English in their curriculum so that academic proficiency for classes I-...