Pune: More than a month after the academic year began, several students studying in municipal and zilla parishad schools across Maharashtra are attending classes without their new uniforms, exposing a recurring problem in procurement and distribution by local civic bodies.The delay, reported from several municipal corporations and ZPs, has once again highlighted poor planning despite…
The civic body has around 180 municipal school buildings within its jurisdiction, including those in merged areas Pune: The civic body will soon commence infrastructure works at 75 municipal schools identified under the Model Schools (Aadarsh Shala) project, for which zone-wise tenders were published recently.Initially, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had decided to invite a…
The education department’s focus is to bring students back to schools Pune: A digital attendance system has been introduced in civic schools to tackle student absenteeism, starting with one on Sinhagad Road on a pilot basis.The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials said that under the new system, students’ attendance would be recorded online, with parents…
A stretch of Shankarsheth Road which is part of the Palkhi Marg in disrepair Pune: Some parts of the Ashadhi wari palkhi routes damaged in the recent heavy showers were urgently repaired by the road department over the last two days when the rains took a break to prevent inconvenience to warkaris, said the Pune…
Severe waterlogging across the city left many stranded on Thursday Ghaziabad: The district administration has declared a holiday for all schools from classes 1 to 12 on Friday after IMD issued an orange alert for thunderstorms, heavy rain and hailstorm.The order, issued late on Thursday by the district inspector of schools (DIOS) on the directions…
The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday reprimanded the Maharashtra govt after the urban development department (UDD)cited the ongoing monsoon session of legislature as a reason for its inability to immediately file response in a long-pending case. Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday reprimanded the Maharashtra govt after the…
Pune: As many as 116 schools of the 285 run by Pune Municipal Corporation have no principals. Retirement and non-availability of teachers who have cleared the Supreme Court-mandated Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) to take on the responsibility have kept these posts vacant.Such schools amount to 40% of the total number, data given in a reply…
