Andhra Pradesh Affairs
Education reforms in AP to help improve skills of students: Botsa
Education Minister Botsa Satyanarayana has said the aims to upgrade the skills of students to make them globally competitive. This would be done by introducing a series of reforms like the introduction of English as a medium of instruction and CBSE syllabus in government schools.
The minister appreciated the role of officials in developing a new curriculum linking higher education with Skill development. This was not being practised anywhere in the country. Some 1.40 lakh students are undergoing training with Microsoft.
National and International Affairs
Over half of these blocks are in 6 statesUttar Pradesh (68 blocks), Bihar (61), Madhya Pradesh (42), Jharkhand (34), Odisha (29) and West Bengal (29).
However, states can add more blocks to the programme later.
Kerala Chief Minister(CM)Pinarayi Vijayanhas inaugurated thePalm leaf Manuscript Museumwith modern audio-visual technology at the renovated Central Archives, Fort area in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Museum, promoted asWorlds First Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museumwas set up by the Archives Department in association with the Kerala Museum of History and Heritage at a cost of Rs 3 crore.
The museum is a repository of curious nuggets of administrative, socio-cultural and economic facets of the Travancore kingdom which lasted for 650 years till the end of the 19th century. It had been the Central Vernacular Records Office since 1887 before becoming a museum.
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