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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan to provide free IT education in northeast

Agartala: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an institution for promotion of education and culture, will provide free information technology (IT) education to the youth of northeast India . "The Bhavan would set up Gandhi Institution of Information Technology (GIIT) centres at Guwahati , Jorhat in Assam , Shillong , Agartala, Kohima, and Gangtok," said K.V. Gopalkrishnan, regional director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. These institutes are being set up under the Prime Minister's special fund to provide three months free IT education to local youth in the region. The Bhavan has already set up 30 GIITs in various parts of the country. The 70-year-old Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has 112 institutes in India, eight overseas centres in the UK, US, Canada, Portugal, South Africa, Kuwait, Mexico and Australia and 280 constituent institutions, besides a number of affiliated colleges. IANS Source: http://indiaedunews.net/Tripura/Bharatiya_Vidya_Bhavan_to_provide_free_IT_education_in_northeast_6154/
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11th Five Year Plan is India's education plan - PM

New Delhi: Felicitating the teachers who were awarded the National Teachers' Award here on Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that education was a priority for the government and the 11th Five Year Plan is the education plan of the country. "Investment in the education sector, especially in the areas of school education, has increased manifold in the last four years. The 11th Five Year Plan can be described as an education plan for our country," Singh said on Thursday, on the eve of the Teachers Day. Highlighting the government's various initiatives to make education accessible to all, he said that several new scholarship schemes are being implemented for educational development of children belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and religious minorities as well as the girl child. Admitting that the number of children out of schools is still high, Singh said: "As a result of various interventions, the number of out-of...
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