Friday 8 April 2011

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Scholars given tips on Fulbright scholarships

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:22 AM PDT

PATNA: United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) senior programme manager Sudarsan Das on Wednesday encouraged the local scholars to apply for Fulbright scholarships for carrying out studies, research, teaching and professional development in the US.

Addressing the students at NIT Patna here, he said that outstanding students, academics, teachers, policy planners, administrators and professionals in all disciplines can apply for these fellowships. USIEF expects to offer approximately 110 Fulbright-Nehru fellowships for Indians in 2012, he said.

Giving details of the Fulbright-Nehru programme in India, he said that the Indo-US agreement on educational exchange signed by the then PM, Jawaharlal Nehru, and US ambassador Loy Henderson on February 2, 1950, in New Delhi, established USIEF in India to administer the Fulbright programme. On July 4, 2008, the government of India and US government signed a new agreement to strengthen educational exchanges between the two countries. Since 1950, USIEF has awarded approximately 8,700 Fulbright fellowships to Indians and Americans.

Earlier, Das was welcomed on the campus by NIT Patna director U C Ray and registrar Vidya Sagar. NIT Patna placement officer Sanjeev Sinha coordinated the event and proposed the vote of thanks.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Scholars-given-tips-on-Fulbright-scholarships/articleshow/7886788.cms

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Bihar to map ancient Buddhist routes in state

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:16 AM PDT

PATNA: The Bihar government will soon begin mapping the lost and forgotten Buddhist pilgrimage routes in the state with an aim to revive its old glory and promote tourism.

The newly formed Bihar Virasat Vikas Samiti (BVVS) an NGO working as a separate body under the guidance of department of culture and a deemed university Nava Nalanda Mahavihara (NNM) have jointly designed a multi-pronged project to develop these unknown sites.

Experts would be involved to develop these unknown sites spread across the districts of Nalanda, Vaishali, Bhagalpur, Saran and East Champaran. French archaeologist Yves Guichand during his recent Bihar visit took aerial photographs of some of these sites in Nalanda.

“The community that has preserved the heritage stands to benefit from it while devising methods to preserve it. Tourism and more specifically, religious pilgrimage, offer a unique opportunity to local people to showcase the culture and heritage and, in the process, generate new avenues of livelihood,” says amateur archaeologist Deepak Anand, who has been actively engaged in this project during the last few years .

“The pilgrimage routes through villages will give pride to the culture and offer them monetary support to take care of the inheritance and generate awareness,” Anand told TOI. This relationship between people and their surroundings would set an example of Buddha’s teachings in the land of its origin.

The vast heritage that is inlaid in most of the villages in Bihar was once part of the pilgrimage for Buddhist all over the world; millions of followers traced these routes for over 1800 long years that saw an unexpected decline around the 14th century AD.

The BVVS and NNM have designed a strategy to develop these sites for the interest of the local community and their heritage. The first phase of the plan would comprise a tour route spanning Bodh Gaya, Pragbodhi, Gurpa, Jethian, Nalanda, Rajgir, Parwati and Checher. The strategy put in place includes a community participation plan focussing on the interdependency of community and heritage termed “Engaged Buddhism”.

The process of revitalization of the heritage has many aspects like, field study, exploration, documentation of the sites, protection, preservation, excavation, promotion and showcasing.

The travelogues of two Chinese travellers Fahein and Xuanzang were instrumental in rediscovery of important sites associated with the life of Buddha and the events that followed until his Mahaparinirvana.

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Maharashtra beats Bihar in crime rates

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 06:14 AM PDT

MUMBAI: Opposition parties criticized the state on Wednesday over the increasing crime rate in the state.

Quoting figures from the state Economic Survey (ES) report, leader of the Opposition in the legislative council, Pandurang Phundkar, claimed that Maharashtra was ahead of Bihar when it came to thefts, robberies, dacoities and crimes against women and children.

Phundkar said that as per CID reports, crime rate in the state rose by 18% in the last five years. “Crimes against women went up by 30% and economic offences by 5% in the corresponding period,” he said. “In 2010, crimes against women rose by 8.3% over the last year. Cases of sexual harassment increased by 10%, immoral trafficking by 11%, harassment by in-laws by 8.6%, and rape by 6.9%.”

Cyber crime also rose by almost one and a half times since 2008, he said. Sena member Ramdas Kadam raised the issue of increase in cases of infanticide.

Home minister R R Patil will furnish a reply on the discussion on Thursday.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Maharashtra-ahead-of-Bihar-in-crime-rate/articleshow/7890457.cms

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Bihar sets the target of 100 per cent literacy by next census

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 04:12 AM PDT

Patna, Apr 6 (PTI) The Bihar government has set upon an ambitious target of 100 per cent literary in the state by the next decadal census due in 2021, a top HRD official said today.At a meeting of the Bihar Literary Mission Authority (BLMA) attended by state HRD Minister P K Shahi and other officials, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that their mission should be to ensure that the state attains cent percent literary by the next decadal census in 2021, principal secretary (HRD) Anjani Kumar Singh said.It should further be ensured that the state be rated among the top five most literate states in the country by 2021, he said.It was also decided at the meeting that the HRD minister should be the chairman of the BLMA and the Panchayati Raj Minister its joint chairman from now onwards instead of the chief minister due to the latter’s hectic schedule.The state government will set up an integrated Human Resources Development Committee which would be headed by the chief minister himself, Singh said.The HRD Minister also spoke on the occasion and asked his department’s officials as well as those of the BLMA to work on a war-footing towards making Bihar a fully literate state and said that the area MLAs and MLCs should also be associated with the nodal body towards literacy.

 

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Nitish emphasizes on Human Resources Development

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 12:11 AM PDT

Patna, Apr 5 (PTI) Observing that there may be different dimensions of development for different people, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that his government wanted to provide good education and medical infrastructure to the people for bringing about the best possible human resources development.Speaking at a book release function here today, he said the state government was committed to set up the required infrastructure for human resources development under its vision of development and provide an atmosphere and opportunities to enable the people, particularly the youths, to hone their skills and reap rewards in their professional lives, Kumar said.The Chief Minister exuded confidence that the Bihari people were talented and were equipped with skills to achieve worldly success and make a name for themselves.”Bihar and its people have already shown the right attitude by embracing their ‘Bihari’ identity and pledged to work together to attain development”, Kumar said.”It is a matter of time that Bihar will join the developed states and contribute as much to help the country become a superpower”, the Chief Minister said.Kumar also pledged to live and work by personal example and said that he will conduct himself in such a way that he lives up to the expectation of people and not not do anything that will ever embarass the Bihari people.”I may not deliver as much as desired by the people, but at the same time would not do anything that will bring shame or embarassment to the people,” he said.

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Bihar Human Resources Ministry sets up Centralised monitoring cum data center

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 08:08 PM PDT

Patna, Apr 6 (PTI) Bihar HRD minister P K Sahi today launched the Centralised Monitoring cum Data Centre (CMD) of his department here today. The centre has been set up with the application of updated high capacity and efficient servers. Speaking on the occasion, Sahi said the Centre would monitor all the schemes and programmes of the HRD and would have direct links between the state headquarters to district headquarters and education offices across the state. There would be a toll-free number which would make available all the informations required by the students towards redressal of their grievances and progress of schemes, he said, adding the call centre would also soon be linked with the blocks. Sahi expressed firm resolve of his government to implement the Right to Education Act in Bihar.

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