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Union, W.B. Education Ministers spar over NEP, funds

Union, W.B. Education Ministers spar over NEP, funds

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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan addressing a teachers’ conference in Kolkata on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ANI Criticising the Mamata Banerjee government on several fronts relating to education, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that West Bengal lost Central funds worth ₹10,000 crore by not implementing the National Education Policy (NEP) in the State. “Despite repeated requests, the NEP was not implemented in West Bengal by the State government. The policy talks about education in the mother tongue, and in West Bengal, that would have been Bengali. The State government does not want to allow education in Bengali,” Mr. Pradhan said while addressing a teachers’ conference organised by the Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata on Saturday. The Union Minister said that had the NEP been implemented, additional funds would have been given to the State under the Samagra Shiksha Mission. Mr. Pradhan also accused the Mamata Banerjee government of siphoning off funds from the midday meal scheme. Mr. Pradhan cited various statistics to argue that the education system …

SFI enforces strike on university campuses in West Bengal

SFI enforces strike on university campuses in West Bengal

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Members of CPI(M) students wing SFI surround the car of West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu during a protest, demanding immediate student union elections, at Jadavpur University in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: ANI Activists of the CPI(M)’s student wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI) gathered on university campuses across West Bengal on Monday morning (March 3, 2025) to enforce a strike demanding the resignation of Education Minister Bratya Basu. Two students were injured when a car in the convoy of Mr. Basu grazed past them during a melee in Jadavpur University (JU) on March 1, 2025 as Leftists students tried to prevent the Minister from leaving the campus, demanding a discussion on the conduct of student union polls. Mr. Basu sustained injuries as the windshield of his car was damaged by the protesters. Campuses of Jadavpur and Presidency universities in Kolkata wore a deserted look on Monday morning (March 3, 2025) as common students, faculty members and other staffers stayed away while (SFI) members gathered on the campuses to enforce the day-long strike that began …

Uneasy calm prevails on Jadavpur University campus in West Bengal post unrest | Latest News India

Uneasy calm prevails on Jadavpur University campus in West Bengal post unrest | Latest News India

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An uneasy calm prevailed on Jadavpur University campus on Sunday morning after violent protests by Leftist students and heckling of West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on the previous day. Students’ Federation of India (SFI) members gather around West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s car at Jadavpur University campus, in Kolkata, Saturday, March 1, 2025.(PTI) The windscreen of the minister’s car was smashed by protesters and two of the agitators were injured, one of them seriously, when the tyre of one of the vehicles in his convoy grazed past them. A university official said a forensic team is expected to visit the campus on Sunday. The university’s officiating Vice Chancellor Bhaskar Gupta was allegedly verbally abused by a section of Leftist students when he visited one of the injured students, Indranuj Roy, at a nearby private medical college and hospital. The ruling Trinamool Congress‘s Shiksha Cell (academic wing) office on the campus, which was set ablaze by angry protesters after the minister’s convoy left the university, bore telltale signs of rampage as gutted festoons, chairs …

What message do you want us to send, says SC on Partha Chatterjee bail plea | Latest News India

What message do you want us to send, says SC on Partha Chatterjee bail plea | Latest News India

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved orders on the bail plea by former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee arrested in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers even as it countered Chatterjee’s arguments claiming that he was innocent and that crores of rupees in cash seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) did not belong to him. Partha Chatterjeewas arrested by ED in 2022 (PTI) “What message do you want us to give to the society… that corrupt people will get bail. On the face of it, it is evident that you are a corrupt person as crores of money have been recovered from your premises,” a bench of justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan said during the hearing on Wednesday. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared for Chatterjee, said the money was recovered from a company where he is not a director. The bench retorted, “Obviously you can’t be a director as you are a minister and it will be treated as an office …