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UP School Merger: Opposition, teachers, schools demand withdrawal of school closure orders citing increase in dropout rate, child labour, child marriage.
"Since schools are the ideal place to learn the values of democracy, the revised textbooks will specifically include content on the constitutional powers of Governors to educate students on this matter," Minister Sivankutty said.
"There has been a consistent rise in the number of students graduating from Class 12 with the science stream over the last 11 years, from 2013 to 2024," the ministry of education report said.
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.
