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 | Govt to post minority welfare officers in districts | | published on : 08/10/2013 | | Category : Appointments | | PATNA: For the first time in the state, district minority welfare officers will be posted in all the 38 districts to look after the implementation of Centre and state sponsored minority welfare schemes. The officials have been selected through examination conducted by the BPSC, principal secretary, home and minority welfare department, Amir Subhani, told TOI on Monday.
"The new service was approved by the state government and their selection, appointment and training were held in record time. They will be posted in next three months," Subhani said and added that the officers will also be trained at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, where IAS officers are trained.
A total of 38 officers have been selected and 30 of them are undergoing training at Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development at Walmi, Phulwarisharif. Apart from classroom training, he said, they are also introduced to the social and cultural heritage as well as historic monuments of Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism and Christianity in Bihar. Meetings have so far been arranged for them at places like Catholic Church, Takht Sri Harmandir Ji Saheb and Dargah at Maner. They are also scheduled to visit Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya on October 22, Subhani said.
The purpose is to apprise the officers of the educational and economic development issues of minorities. Subhani said after the Sachar committee report, the Centre launched major schemes for the minority welfare and Bihar also introduced its own ambitious programmes for them. "In the absence of district level officers, the pace of executing such programmes was sometimes tardy. Therefore, the state government decided to create district minority welfare officer's post in each district," he said.
The Centre, which has increased the funds for various minority welfare programmes in Bihar, had recently expressed concern over the slow pace of work and non-utilization of funds in the minority-concentrated districts. The number of such districts has also been doubled recently. | | Related Keywords : | | welfare officers For filling vacant seats in this academic year | | Govt to post minority welfare officers in districts | | published on : 08/10/2013 | | Category : Appointments | | AHMEDABAD: For filling vacant seats in this academic year, the Gujarat high court has granted relaxation to self-financed institutes and students seeking admission in BE, B.Tech and B.Pharm as well as ME, M.Tech and M.Pharm by permitting them to bypass the common entrance tests.
Of 5,917 , a total of 1,674 ME and M Tech seats are vacant in self-financed engineering colleges and 3,297 seats out of 4,920 in masters in pharmacy institutes. These seats have remained vacant after the admission committee completed its admission rounds, and after admitting students who have cleared GATE, GPAT or Common Entrance Test.
Similarly, Parul Arogya Seva Mandal requested the court to allow the relief for undergraduates for admission in BE, B Tech and B Pharm courses without clearing JEE, NEET or GUJCET. In these engineering courses, out of 63,113 seats, there are 8,923 have remained vacant in SFIs. In pharmacy courses, the SFIs got 2,796 seats vacant of total 4,825 seats in SFIs.
Thus, with more lots of seats remaining vacant in engineering and pharmacy colleges, the SFI's association moved the HC seeking permission to admit students by not insisting on their having taken an entrance test. Instead, the colleges should be permitted to admit students merely on basis of the minimum qualifying marks, the petitioners had pleaded.
After hearing arguments by senior counsel D C Dave and advocate P A Jadeja, a bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala permitted the SFIs to admit students as per their demand for the remaining vacant seats. The court observed that no importance could be attached to entrance tests for the remaining seats as the AICTE has not prescribed any minimum standards for qualification for admission.
The court also observed that such elimination through entrance test is required when the number of seats is less than the number of applicants but here scenario is different. The judges, however, refused to strike down the rule the makes entrance tests compulsory for admission, when number of students is higher than number of seats.
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