The Centre has asked the States to draw up action plans to overcome the shortage of manpower in dealing with leprosy, a highly stigmatised and debilitating disease. The plans are to be reflected in the project implementation plans (PIPs) for 2010-11.

Only nine States — Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal — have dedicated Leprosy Officers in place. The situation at the district-level is even worse, with 116 posts lying vacant as against the sanctioned 311 posts in 523 districts in 20 States.

After the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), over 5,500 candidates successfully took the first ever computer-based test for admission to the management programmes of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) Sunday, on the second day of the test.

The NMAT, as the deemed university calls its test, is being conducted at 51 centres in 19 cities by Pearson VUE.

Raipur : Even as the final word on the controversy involving the deemed universities is yet to be pronounced, the Chhattisgarh government has cancelled Letters of Intent issued to 17 institutions after they failed to fulfil the conditions laid down for setting up of private universities. Only two private universities remain in the state, which had earlier opened the floodgates for such institutions.

New Delhi: Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), India’s premier management school’s Narsee Monjee Aptitude Test (NMAT), the management admissions aptitude test, will soon be computer-based, thus making a transition to a new age digital method, by this month.

For the first-ever computer based NMAT, NMIMS has partnered with Pearson VUE to conduct the exam in 19 cities in India and 11 countries outside India between January 30 and February 8, 2010.

CHANDIGARH: The story of Anne Frank - a lesson in the curriculum of Class X English - was narrated to the students of government schools situated
at Hallomajra and Raipur Khurd by UT home-cum-education secretary Ram Niwas on Tuesday. He paid surprise visits there to take stock of their infrastructural requirements and the prevailing hygienic conditions.

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RAIPUR: A student of the Government Engineering College (GEC) here has been arrested for ragging his junior.

A police officer said Praveen had asked the girl to hug him and do it daily.

Praveen Mishra, a seventh semester student of Mechanical Engineering, was held on Monday from his college in Shej Bahar area on the outskirts of Raipur after a fifth semester computer science engineering student reported ragging.

"The student has a history of misbehaving with juniors. He was arrested for ragging the girl student and has been put in jail," said police station in charge.

Raipur, Sep 1 The Chhattisgarh government has decided to give free PET and PMT coaching to meritorious students belonging to scheduled castes and tribes in the state, official sources said today.

The coaching would be given to these SC/ST students in a national level institute and about 100 students will be selected for the current session, they said.

The selected wards will comprise 17 boys and 8 girls (SC) apart from 52 boys and 23 girls from the ST category, official sources said.

The existing IIMs will have to guide the new ones even as the issue of faculty crunch has raised its ugly head again

With the Manmohan Singh government approving seven new Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), the faculty and management of the existing ones appear to be under stress.

Ludhiana : The sixth batch — comprising 30 girl students — of the one-year certificate course in Hospitality Kitchen Management (CHKM) passed out today. They were given certificates by Jassi Khangura, MLA from Kila Raipur constituency and Managing Director, Hotel Majestic Park Plaza, at a simple function organised in the hotel here today.