Updated Mar 08, 2021 | 09:05 IST
An interaction is scheduled for Education Minister with girls students today at 11 am. The interaction aims at releasing comics of CBSE on the occasion of International Women s Day. Link for the session below. Education Minister to interact on International Women s Day   |  Photo Credit: Representative Image
The Education Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, will be interacting with girl school students today on March 8, 2021. Education Minister will release comics of Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE on the occasion of International Women s Day.
The interaction is scheduled today from 11:00 am to 11:30 am. The live interaction on the occasion of International Women s Day can be watched on the Education Minister s Twitter and Facebook pages.
The announcement was made by Union Minister of Education Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal on Thursday, 28 January, during an interaction with heads of schools, where he talked about ways of implementing the National Education Policy 2020.
Earlier on 31 December 2020, Dr Pokhriyal had announced that CBSE board exams for Classes 10 and 12 will be held from 4 May to 10 June 2021.
In July 2020, Dr Pokhriyal had announced that the syllabus for class 10 and 12 board exams to be conducted in 20212 had been reduced by 30 percent “by retaining the core concepts.”
(The Quint is available on Telegram. For handpicked stories every day, subscribe to us on Telegram)
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 18: “National level Entrance-cum-Scholarship Test CUCET 2021″ announced by Chandigarh University is a novel attempt to search for budding talent from every corner of India and motivate them to pursue their dream career by offering them an academic scholarship to overcome the financial barriers”.
This was stated by Union Minister for Education Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal during the launch ceremony of National Level Entrance-cum-Scholarship Test of Chandigarh University “CUCET 2021”.
The National Entrance-cum-Scholarship Test would offer academic scholarships worth Rs 33 crores to the students in more than 135 Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate programs offered by the University, where the meritorious student on the basis of CUCET-2021 scores can avail scholarships upto 100 per cent in the academic fees.