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While many local businesses are drowning and most are struggling to survive, India seeks an unprecedented growth in the education app development sector. With Indore being the start-up hub, this growth spur is cited in the city.  As reported by industry experts, maximum growth is recorded by Information Technology (IT) first generation businesses and start-ups in Indore.  Speaking to IT start-up heads known for working in field, the growth rate in domestic market of education application is noted about 100 percent and about 30 percent globally was reported. The global Smart Education and Learning Market size is anticipated to reach USD 665.12 billion by the end of 2026, owing to the growing advancement in learning platforms. Fortune Business Insight in their report titled ‘Smart Education and Learning Market’.  Since announcing free live classes on its Think and Learn app, BYJU’s has seen a 200% increase in the number of new students using its product, according to Mrinal...

Enrolments for Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) classes 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th has begun. The process of registrations will be easier and more convenient this year. With the outspread of coronavirus, as it is suggested to stay home and maintain social distancing, going to MP online kiosk is not suggested. Hence, this year MPBSE is preparing mobile application for enrolments. By logging into the mobile applications, students can directly complete the enrolment process.  As shared by divisional officer Deven Sonwani, the last date for enrolling for academic session 2020-21 will be August 12, 2020. Schools are being informed about the last date to ensure timely completion of the process.  “It is essential for all the schools to note that the responsibility of filling correct information about the enrolling students will be entirely on school from this year onwards,” Sonwani said.  Enrolments forms on its official website mpbse.nic.in. Applicants who are ...

Those students who could not clear the board examination in their first attempt have another chance to clear the pending exams and save their year. In view of giving students enough time to prepare, Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) announced supplementary dates for class 12th.  Class 12th supplementary examination for all the subjects will be held on 14 September.  The supplementary examination of the students of class 10th will start from September 15. The time table for the examinations has been declared.  Supplementary students in Madhya Pradesh In the class 12th board examination, 97,960 regular students and 23,577 private students had received supplementary.  In class 10th board examination, the passing percentage was 62.84 percent. The test result fell by 1.52 per cent over the previous year. As shared in the statistics, 1,08,448 regular and 29,083 private students received supplementary and will be attending the examination.   Second at...

The National Education Policy was framed in 1986 and modified in 1992. Now, considering the significant changes that have taken place in our country, society, economy, and the world at large since then, the Union Cabinet approved the New Education Policy (NEP).  Starting from the changing the name of the Ministry of Human Resource Development to the Ministry of Education, many other changes, especially the decentralisation of the education system, have been announced in the policy.  With the lens of their experience and knowledge, renowned educationists from Indore review and share their take on the New Education Policy 2020. Old wine in New Bottle, beware of corruption “As such we are calling it the new education policy, but in my opinion it is old wine in a new bottle. We had the same 5+3+3+4 Curricular and Pedagogical Structure about 25 years back. So, it is not a new innovation, it is just bringing back what was the old system. The structure of 5+3+3+4 is normal.  We ...

More than 50 parents of Delhi Public School (DPS) filed individual complaints against the school's harassment and refusal to refund or adjust the annual fee already paid for the academic session 2020-21 to District Education Officer on Thursday. Complaints were raised against both DPS Indore and DPS Rau. Most of the complaints raised the issue of school fee and urged DEO to redefine fee and other essential guidelines for online classes. As per latest orders of Madhya Pradesh High Court, schools are only allowed to collect tuition fee and further, no students can be expelled for unpaid fee. DPS not refunding and adjusting annual fee was cited as contempt of court's order. Further, citing removal of students from online class groups if it means expelling students, parents quoted it as contempt of court. One of the parents while quoting problems of parents Dr Sandeep Khadwe wrote, “I have admitted my daughter to DPS to educate through Classroom education, for which I appreciate th...

Dawoodi Bohra community celebrated the festival of Eid al-Adha at their homes refraining from gathering and usual celebrations on Thursday. The celebrations were confined into homes due to outspread of coronavirus. According to the instructions of the religious leader of the society Syedna Ali Qadar Muftaddal Saifuddin Maula, all the Bohra community members celebrated the Eid in the house by offering prayers of Eid in their homes. No gathering was organised in mosque like every year. Following all the instructions and law of the administration, no other social gatherings were organised as well. Anjumane Saifi media in-charge Mazhar Hussain Sethji Vala and Anjumne Burhani Daudi Bohra Jamaat New Saifinagar media in-charge Burhannudin Shakurwala, Jamaat Secretary Mulla Talib Gheewala told that prior instructions about celebrations to be confined in homes were shared with all the community members. The community offered special prayer of Eid after the prayer of Fazar in the morning of Eid ...

Prestige media literacy club of Prestige Institute of Management and Research is organising an International webinar on the importance of media literacy in the age of information on 30 th July, 6.30 pm. Aim of this webinar is to sensitize citizens and parents to be media literate so that they can play the role of active citizen and responsible parents. Media literate responsible parents can better decode media messages; they can have a check on their kid’s media diet consumption especially of digital media diet and can also save them from being victim of fake news and false propaganda. Media literate citizens can understand very well what is propaganda and how false propaganda is propagated, what is fake narratives and how to get rid of it. Keynote speaker is Mr. Frank W Baker who is  media literacy education consultant in USA. Mr. Baker has been very active in promoting media literacy for more than twenty years. His four books from renowned publications have been published focusin...

The passing percentage of government schools yet again was recorded over private schools in Indore and even state. The overall passing percentage of government school students was 71.43 percent.  The overall passing percentage of non-government/private school students was 64.93 percent. Where private schools charge hefty fees and claim to provide better education, the results reflect their true status.  Despite lower passing percentage and bad results, private schools continue seek increase in number of seats and even this year, 48 schools have applied for affiliation from MP board.  The possible reason cited by educationists for rising number of admissions in private schools is not quality education. Rather, the trend of dummy schools, wherein many students are signing up for schools where they need not attend the schools.  Dummy schools are coaching centres that tie-up with regular schools to reduce the school workload on students, thus allowing them more time to f...

The tale of a man eater Tigress to caring mother In 2018, two human casualties were reported in Katni Forest Division within duration of one month. A female with two sub adults was spotted moving in the area.  On 15th April 2018, a big rescue operation was done by BTR (Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve) team and all three tigers were captured and shifted to Behara enclosure of Magdhi range.  The mother was shifted to Bathan enclosure of Tala range, as it was not suitable to release her back into the wild. She was later shifted to Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal.   The fate of two sub adults was still in question. Behaviour of two sub adult female siblings was studied and finally as per recommendations, it was decided to shift the one sub adult female to Satpura Tiger Reserve and another to Sanjay Tiger Reserve (Sanjay TR) from BTR.  On November 3, 2018, the sub adult tigress named T21 was translocated from BTR to Sanjay TR. She was kept in Kanjara enclosure. She was pro...

From the Tiger Census: Steep growth after a shortfall in MP MP had recorded about 300 tigers in 2006. Further, the downfall to 257 in 2010 struck the state’s title. It was in 2010, that the title of Tiger State was lost to Karnataka, where 300 tigers were recorded.  Further, in 2014, MP stood at 308 tigers and Karnataka continued to grow the numbers 406 stealing the title away for another survey. Finally, in 2018, MP regained its title of Tiger State by recording 526 tigers against Karnataka’s 524 tigers. “MP has also registered a substantial increase in their tiger population and along with Karnataka ranks highest in tiger numbers,” the census report said. On the low end, the poor and continuing decline in tiger status in the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha is a matter of concern. Tiger Growth over the Years State 2006 2010 2014 2018 Madhya Pradesh 300           257             308 ...

If you are among 13,011 students in Indore, who could not pass the class 12th Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Examination (MPBSE) examinations, then don’t be disheartened. They have another chance to clear the examination with Madhya Pradesh's Ruk Jana Nahi Scheme. This is only valid for Class 10 and 12 students. The scheme has been specifically introduced to promote those who have failed in the board exams. The board exams of students who have failed in class 10 and 12 will be held on August 17, 2020. Class 10 students can apply till July 28, while Class 12 students can apply till August 05. Students can apply at https://mpsos.mponline.gov.in/ MPBSE released the Class 12 exam result on Monday, July 27, 2020. The exams were held in the month of March. More than 8 lakh students appeared in the exam. The results have been delayed this year due to coronavirus outbreak. However, last year the results were released in May. In 2019, the pass percentage of MPBSE board is 72.37% this yea...

4 from Indore in State Merit List, passing percentage in State drops due to covid-19 Despite facing several financial and societal challenges, girls outshone boys in Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) class 12th board examinations. The passing percentage of girls  This year, the pass percentage has dipped significantly from the last year recorded at 68.81 per cent. Last year, the pass percentage was 72.37 per cent.  Girls outperformed boys, with a pass percentage of 73.40 per cent, while the pass percentage of boys is 64.66 per cent.  Four students from Indore made their place in State Merit Topper’s list. Three of them were from Commerce stream and one was a topper in Science – Biology stream, as shared by divisional officer Deven Sonwani.  Science – Biology topper from Indore in State Merit list is Delan Patel. He scored 484 marks out of 500 and secured fourth position in state. The three State Merit Toppers from Commerce stream are: Vishnukant Mis...

New rules under the Consumer Protection Act 2020 for e-commerce business are applicable now. Consumer and Food Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan will address a press conference on July 27 on the same. The new rules are applicable to goods sold online through the marketplace or inventory-led models registered in India or abroad but offering goods and services to Indian consumers. Under the new rules, filling for a consumer dispute has been made easier with various provisions. With details about the new consumer protection act and highlighting new provisions, Justice Shantanu Kemkar, president of State Commission, shares the details of the new rules applicable: New rules for E-commerce highlights According to the new rules, the e-commerce players will have to display the total price of goods and services offered for sale along with a break-up of other charges. “They are also required to mention the 'expiry date' of goods offered for sale and the 'country of origin' of goo...

Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education is all set to announce the result of class 12th on July 27 at 3 pm. Students who attempted the board examinations 2019-20 that were conducted pre and post lockdown in two session will finally get their result. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has delayed both exams and declaration of MP board results this year. Previously, MPBSE had to postpone Class 12 final exams due to the nationwide lockdown enforced to stop the spread of COVID-19. Class 12 final exams of MPBSE were finally conducted from June 9 to June 16. In anticipation of results, students are jittery and nervous. Many are planning to offer special prayers and keep a fast tomorrow, being Shravan Somvar to stay calm. Since half the examinations were conducted in June, i.e. first phase of unlock, many students are worried if they gave their best. However, as MPBSE class 10th result saw a slight improvement than last year. Overall, the passing percentage of MPBSE in class 10th released earlie...

Create Stories Webinar: Hormonal imbalance on rise in teens says Dr. Abhyudaya Verma Indore Hormonal imbalance is on the rise as the number of teens approaching doctors for help also doubles. This was shared by endocrinologist Dr Abhyudaya Verma in a webinar organised by Create Stories Social Welfare Society on Sunday.  Organiser Deepak Sharma said, "Most people are cranky and impatient due to lockdown and fearful of coronavirus but already undergoing a wave of hormonal changes, teens are suffering more and their suffering is overlooked." He added that the seminar was organised to help parents in understanding teen problems.  Dr Verma said, "The imbalance of hormones may result in symptoms such as dysmenorrhoea, irregular periods, sudden weight gain, acne, migraines, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety, fatigue, loss of sex drive, depression, and impact every aspect of a teenager's life."  He added that lockdown has given us a lot of good and bad experiences, when ta...

Remembering that life is just a cycle of changes, Hindu community observed Nag Panchami on Saturday. Observed during the holy month of Shravan, Nag Panchami is dedicated to the worship of Nag Devta or the snake god. Unlike every year when over 10,000 devotees travel from Indore and other districts to Ujjain for darshan of lord Nagchandreshwar, this year devotees stayed home and attended prayers online. It was for the first time when devotees offered prayers to lord Nagchandreshwar via online streaming on the 'Nag Panchami'. Priests had arranged the facility of online darshans in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. "The doors of this temple are opened once in a year. Usually, lakhs of people visit the temple from across the world. But, this year, due to coronavirus, it wasn't possible," said a temple priest. Pooja was performed throughout the day and a live darshan facility was available for 24 hours. Nag Panchami falls on the fifth day of bright half (Shukla Paksh) i...

National Testing Agency (NTA) has reopened the correction window for JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) 2020. The window will be open till July 31, 2020.  The second JEE Main exam for the year is scheduled from September 1 to September 6. UPSC has scheduled NDA exam on September 6.  This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, UPSC has decided to conduct both the NDA-NA exams in one session, in September, making it all the more important to aspirants. NTA had initially provided the applicants with the opportunity to mention in their applications whether they would be appearing for UPSC NDA exam in September. The edit window was open from July 4 to July 20. However, some applicants missed the deadline and NTA has opened the correction window again. The applicants are required to individually indicate in their application forms that they are appearing for both the examinations. To make corrections, candidates can visit the website, 'jeemain.nta.nic.in', and update the column "Whet...

Understand, don’t break our morale “We are front faces that you can see fighting corona. There is a very big team working on it. Corona is a big elephant and there are many views of it that we still cannot see. From the first patient till date, doctors, nurses, ward boys, cleaning staff, and police staff. Even cops stayed with us for 8 hours protecting us from attacks. I want to talk about people who are behind curtains. Nurses have worked for many shifts while wearing PPE kits as well. Being in PPE kit for hours is a bigger challenge for medical staff than treating patients. We have tried to save every life. Many people are scared to get out of house, but doctors and nurses are scared of going home. We urge people to support and motivate us and not break our morale.” Dr Salil Bhargava Giving world class treatment is a posiitve “I express gratitude to Moti Singh. It is because of Dhudh Sangh that I could work peacefully, as I knew both my kids are getting their milk and bread at home. ...

Central Board of Secondary Education released the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) list of qualified candidates in online mode on Friday. The result is in the form of the PDF and it comprises the detail of all those candidates who appeared for the CTET exam from 2014- 2016.  On the official website of CTET, CBSE has mentioned that the CTET exam did not take place in 2017. Successful candidates can download the pdf of CTET 2014, CTET 2015 and CTET 2016 results.  ? All the qualified candidates who clear the CTET exam, they are eligible to apply for the post of teachers in central schools like NVS, KVS and Army schools. However, they need to also clear the selection round of the school to which they have applied to.  CTET is conducted twice every year by the CBSE for all those candidates who are aspiring to make their career in the teaching profession. CTET 2020 has been postponed due to COVID 19 and the new date for the exam are yet to be announced.

Cycling is the new ‘C’ after Corona that’s trending in the city as Indoreans have understood that healthier lifestyle is no more an option, but a necessity for survival in corona times. With cycling becoming the necessary part of life, cycle sale has seen 40 percent growth since the lockdown.  Spurred by a fear of public transport, the demand for cycles has skyrocketed in the last two months. The number of cyclists in the city has doubled to be said at the very least, cycling groups in city have even charted 8 times increase in cyclists since Unlock. “We had to make new groups of 100 members, such is the hike in cyclists in the city since Unlock,” Chandresh Jhurani, founder of a cyclo freak group, said.   He added that cycling has become a convenient and obvious way to commute after lockdown. “We want to stay healthy and keep social distance, so cycling is definitely a better option overall as well for the city,” Jhurani said.  Citing the increase in riders, head of ...

Madhya Pradesh, with the highest tiger population, has the national as well as global responsibility to save the tiger and its habitat. To celebrate its highest tiger population on International Tiger Day on July 29, MP tiger foundation has organised Tiger Day Quiz 2020.  Due to covid-19, the annual quiz will be organised online and no offline activities are planned like every year. The quiz is open and free for all.  As shared by the coordinating forest officer, the purpose of this quiz is to spread awareness about Tigers & Wildlife in general, with focus on Madhya Pradesh; so, in case the participant does not know the answer to any question, it is suggested to read/enquire from multiple sources and mark the answer once you are sure about it. Participant must note that Strictly only one entry per participant is allowed.  Multiple entries, revealed during scrutiny of submissions for results, in any form or by any means will lead to disqualification of all your entries...

First appeal hearing for private school’s whose affiliation applications were rejected today i.e. Friday July 24, as informed by Joint Director of School Education Department (Indore) Manish Verma. The hearing will be heard via video conferencing to avoid social gathering and keep safe distance to control the spread of coronavirus.  This is perhaps for the first time that the appeal for school affiliation will be heard via video conferencing. The first appeal hearing is for schools which had applied for fresh affiliations for academic year 2020-21.  This year, 49 out of 50 schools that had applied for affiliation for academic year 2020-21 have been rejected under the first inspection by school education department. The affiliation applications were rejected citing non-compliance with Madhya Pradesh Recognition of Secondary and Higher Secondary School Rules, 2017. Verma said, “We had overall received 50 requests from Indore division that includes Indore, Alirajpur, Barwani, Bur...

Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover in the country with 216 plant species.  However, there are more than 32 recognised rare plant species of the state which are facing endangerment.  In order to revive the endangered species, forest department is now producing saplings of these species in nurseries.  The initial plan of expanding production by selling them is facing a battle due to lockdown and coronavirus outbreak.  State Forest Area In terms of forest canopy density classes, MP has 6676.02 square km under very dense forest (2.17% of the geographical area), 34,341.40 square km under moderately dense forest (11.14% of geographical area) and 36,465.07 square km (11.83% of geographical area of the state) under open forest, as per Forest Survey of India (FSI) report.    Rare Endangered Species of MP As per recent study and distributing in 45 plant species, 25 are vulnerable, 40 are endangered, 18 are critically endangered, and 11 are near threatened....

Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, Learning Management  System (LMS) has became an integral part of the eLearning course design and development process and the need of hour for effective teaching and learning processes in higher education, said Mayank Kewaliya, Workflow Analyst, TCS Mumbai, while addressing a two-day webinar  on ’“Leadership Development Program” organized by the Prestige  Institute  of Management and Research, Indore under the aegis of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC). While  laying emphasis on the importance of the learning management system (LMS), he demonstrated the relevance of the main components of LMS and its transition from classroom learning to eLearning. Dr. Selveraj Vadivelu, Associate Vice President, Sasken Technologies Limited, while addressing on the topic  ‘How to prepare industry-ready managers’,  shed light on the importance of employability skills and laid emphasis on making management students ready for the industri...

Representing about 10,000 parents from Indore, four representatives reached Bhopal and appealed to minister of state for school education Inder Singh Parmar to set an appropriate fee to be collected by schools for online classes.  The four parent representatives advocate Chanchal Gupta, Satish Sharma, Sachin Sharma and Deepak Sharma met with the minister discussing issues faced by parents. Representatives discussed the plea of parents, who are being pressured by schools to pay fee and threatening to give transfer certificate (TC) to the child if not paid by allotted due dates. Parents of different private schools have come together and have been running a campaign ‘Jago Palak Jago’ to protest against schools collecting fee for lockdown period and further, complete school fee while conducting online classes.  The representatives submitted a memo to Parmar after explaining parents’ problems.  “As you know, since the last week of March, the country has been undergoing a worl...

Recently, an injured leopard as rescued from Nayapura forest of Kampel. The leopard was seriously injured in this battle of supremacy, which was rescued by the Forest Department team and taken to the city zoo Indore. Though it was reported to have been injured in infighting, it seems doubtful as only leopard’s face and mouth was injured.  The injured leopard is being treated in Indore city zoo, but its condition is risky. On the positive note, the leopard is eating properly. However, he seems to have lost vision in both his eyes permanently.  City zoo in-charge Dr Uttam Yadav is still hoping to restore his eye sight. The leopard needs to be taken to the state veterinary hospital in Bhopal for MRI. Transporting the leopard seems like a tough job, so city zoo is currently writing a letter to Bhopal team requesting assistance.  Yadav shared that that the leopard underwent an operation. After which, it was expected that his eyesight will return. “However, the leopard still de...

Remember Geeta? The real-life Munni from movie ‘Bhajrangi Bhaijaan’ who returned to India after spending 15 years in Edhi foundation in Pakistan. While the movie had a happy ending with Munni reuniting with her parents, Geeta has not found her parents or a partner for life till date.  Living in an NGO Mook Badhir Sanghatan, Geeta was still unhappy and expressed her wish to move to another NGO named Anand Service Society. As per her wish, she was allowed to shift to the NGO. Employees of the Social Justice Department shifted her to the NGO in Vijay Nagar under the supervision of the society hostel. As shared by Geeta, she was in touch with Purohit family from Anand Service Society, who understood her and helped her in returning to Indore.  In 2015, the then-Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj brought Geeta to India. Geeta was brought to India so that her parents would be searched and transported there.  Since then, his parents were being sought from the government level. Indore...

A team from MP’s leading engineering college Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS), Indore participated and bagged third position in a Virtual Imagine Hackathon, Pune in July 2020. The team was awarded Rs 20,000 as recognition of their efforts.  The participating team has five members: Aatmik Jain, Prateek Narsinghani, and Rithik Sachdev from Computer Engineering Department, Akash Goyal, and Mehul Agarwal from the Information Technology Department of SGSITS.  As shared by the team, it was an invite-only hackathon and various distinguished institutes from all over the nation participated in the same.    “It was a two-week hackathon and all the teams were given a predefined problem statement that was aimed at solving various issues encountered by an organisation,” the team said. SGSITS team was asked to develop a social platform that would help the employees to get familiarised with the company culture and environment.  Further, the ...

A group of three pharmacists have developed a unique marked design of ‘Thin Layer Chromatographic (TLC) Plate’ to ease scientific experiments. The trio Dr Neelesh Malviya, Dr Sapna Malviya and Rajiv Saxena received patent for the technology from government of India for the unique design.  The design was developed at Smriti College of Pharmaceutical Education, Indore. “TLC technique is widely used by researchers, scientists, academicians, students of almost all the areas of science for the identification and separation of molecules of interest,” Malviya said. He explained that TLC is a chromatography technique used to separate non-volatile mixtures. How does TLC technique work? The experiment is conducted on a sheet of aluminium foil, plastic, or glass which is coated with a thin layer of adsorbent material. The material usually used is aluminium oxide, cellulose, or silica gel. On completion of the separation, each component appears as spots separated vertically. Each spot has a re...

A special webinar on Virtual Traveling was organized by Create Stories in which Awara Banjara Traveller and Storyteller Prakash Jha from Ahmedabad shared his insight. Organiser Deepak Sharma shared that Prakash Jha was a banker, who quit his job to explore 28 Indian states and 8 union territories. Prakash Jha said that every state and city has its own glory and glory. He said that in this era of pandemic, we cannot go around like this but we can go for virtual travelling.  How to go for Virtual Travel? For virtual traveling, you relive your previous travels. You start from preparing and recollect every moment of your travel.  Another way to go for a new virtual tour is through reading, listening and watching travel stories. When you read, listen or watch travel stories, you start traveling in virtually.  Listening to the stories of people who keep traveling regularly, they explain every incident whether good or bad and we can even learn from it. For example, if I talk tha...