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West Bengal yet to receive any communication from Centre about common board: Education Minister Basu
The Ministry of Education has recommended seven states to adopt a common board for classes 10 and 12 after an analysis by the School Education Department found they accounted for 66 per cent of student failures last year.
"These schools will have AI-enabled libraries, smart classrooms equipped with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) tools, smartboards, and biometric attendance systems," the official said.
Educational centres in Jajpur and Bhadrak will remain closed even after summer vacation, due to widespread diarrhoea. The death toll in Jajpur has come up to 13 on June 18, 2025.
Schools are to remain closed in Ranchi following predictions of heavy rainfall. Four people were killed by the weather in Jharkhand, including three children.
Chhattisgarh said these measures have helped in balancing the workload of teachers and will also benefit students preparing for competitive exams like JEE, NEET.
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Activists say that UP government has sent school closure orders to district education officers of 75 districts in a ‘confidential’ manner and that teacher recruitment would have helped more.
The prime minister will visit Bhubaneswar to attend the BJP government's first anniversary and launch development projects worth Rs 19,000 crore.
The other nine finalist schools are from Brazil, the UK, Dubai, Pakistan, Italy, Costa Rica and Argentina. The World’s Best School Prizes, founded by T4 Education—a global platform of over 2,00,000 teachers from more than 100 countries.
This is part of Prayoga Institute of Education Research's Kriya initiative, which aims to transform science learning for over 11,000 students across 77 schools in Karnataka.
MoE recommends that Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Manipur, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal have a common board after poor PGI-D performance.
