Aishwariya Lakshmi

The Basic Siksha Adhikari (BSA), Aishwariya Lakshmi said “no negligence will be tolerated once the school reopens in July” at a meeting with the principals of government primary and upper primary schools held at IIMT College Knowledge Park on Friday.

The District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) will conduct a month-long special inspection of state-run and aided primary and upper primary schools across Noida from July 5.

At least 220 girl students at government schools in Gautam Budh Nagar received bicycles on Wednesday. The distribution programme was conducted by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Dadri, in collaboration with the district administration as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Center’s Girl Empowerment campaign.

District magistrate (DM) Manish Kumar Verma directed the district task force on Monday to visit five schools every month and inspect infrastructural developments.

Over 40 teachers were found absent and 3 schools were found closed during an inspection held across 36 council schools in Gautam Buddha Nagar district on Wednesday. As per officials, the inspection was carried out to scrutinise the condition of school infrastructures and learning outcomes.

Students are being denied admission to private primary schools under the RTE Act in several blocks across Gautam Buddha Nagar. As per officials, nearly 250 complaints have been submitted to the Basic Shiksha Adhikari office.

The headmaster of a government school who was recently indicted in a probe for burnishing his credentials for the job with a fake marksheet faces not only a police case but a stiff penalty, with the education department ordering the recovery of the entire salary paid to him during his tenure of nearly 26 years.

It has been three years since Lalita, now 15, has been to school. Instead, she is taking stitching lessons at an NGO near her house hoping to bag a job in a garment factory.