Bhubaneswar: Nearly a month after school education department stumbled upon 1,678 errors in textbooks for classes 1 to VIII, the crime branch on Tuesday took into custody Manoj Kumar Padhy (57), former director of Teacher Education & State Council of Educational Research and Training (TE & SCERT), the first such arrest in the case that…
Bhubaneswar: The crime branch on Monday formally took over investigation into the alleged irregularities in the preparation, approval, processing and publication of school textbooks for classes I to VIII.Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi had on Saturday ordered a crime branch investigation into the lapses that led to a large number of errors in the school…
Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi Bhubaneswar: Days after chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi told TOI that the massive textbook errors could be the result of a “conspiracy” and warned that those responsible would be made to bear the cost of reprinting them if a probe showed culpability, the CM on Saturday ordered a crime branch…
Bhubaneswar: The state govt has approved upgrade of 67 primary schools to upper primary ones to improve access to education and strengthen learning infrastructure in underserved areas, school and mass education minister Nityananda Gond informed on Saturday.The minister attributed the decision to enhancing standard of education in Odisha and ensuring better educational facilities for students,…
Bhubaneswar: CM Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday directed district collectors to ensure identification and allocation of land for 2,200 Godabarish Mishra Model Primary Schools by March 2027, while announcing a strict monitoring mechanism involving weekly reports from districts and monthly reviews by him to fast-track the flagship education project.Chairing a high-level review meeting at Lok…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha School Education Programme Authority (OSEPA) has initiated the distribution of school bags for students from Sishu Vatika to Class 3 studying in govt schools across the state. OSEPA state project director Ananya Das asked district education officers-cum-district project coordinators under Samagra Shiksha to coordinate the receipt and distribution of the bags.Odisha Small Industries…
Bhubaneswar: Officials of the school and mass education department on Tuesday began an investigation into allegations of irregularities in teacher transfers carried out under the administrative control of the district education officer (DEO) in Angul district.Following allegations that as many as 120 govt school teachers were transferred through illegal means, senior departmental officials visited the…
The three-member committee also discussed how such a large number of errors appeared in the textbooks Bhubaneswar: A three-member high-level committee, led by development commissioner Deoranjan Kumar Singh, which is probing errors in school textbooks, held a meeting here on Friday in presence of school and mass education department secretary N Thirumala Naik.Sources said the…
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday ordered a detailed inquiry into the large number of grammatical and factual errors detected recently in the newly introduced Odia textbooks for Classes I to VIII in govt schools and directed officials to take immediate corrective measures.Chairing a high-level meeting, the chief minister ordered the constitution of…
CM Majhi during an event to celebrate his govt’s 2 years in office, in Bhubaneswar on Friday Bhubaneswar: On the occasion of his govt’s second anniversary, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Friday announced free education in all govt institutions from KG to postgraduation level.“To make education truly free and universal, I announce that education…
