Nursery admissions in Delhi start today, registration ends March 4
Respite for parents who have been waiting for notification for over 2 mnts
New Delhi, Feb. 17: The process for nursery admissions in schools across the national capital will begin from Thursday and the application window will close on March 4.
The Directorate of Education (DoE) last week notified the admission schedule, bringing respite for anxious parents who have been waiting for the notification for over two months.
As per the notified schedule, the first list of selected children will be displayed on March 20, followed by second list on March 25 and subsequent list for admission, if any, on March 27. The entire admission process will conclude on March 31.
Usually, nursery admissions in around 1,700 schools in the national capital begin in the last week of November. The DoE releases guidelines and schools are asked to furnish required information, following which the application process is rolled out in December. However, there has been no development on it in 2020.
The Delhi government officials had in December said that a proposal to scrap nursery admissions is being considered as the schools have been closed for nine months due to Covid-19 and will remain closed till a vaccine is available. A whole year of online learning for small children seems unviable, they had said. But school principals had opposed this idea.
“Since schools are closed in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and physical class room learning is not going on for entry level classes at present, schools have been directed that no fee except prescribed registration fee, admission fee, caution fee (if school already charges) and tuition fee, shall be charged at the time of admission by the schools and thereafter only tuition fee shall be charged from the students till further orders.
“No deviation from the notified schedule shall be permitted. Each school shall display the admission schedule on its notice board and website. Further each school shall ensure that application forms for admission are made available to all applicants till the last date of submission of admission's application form,” a senior DoE official said.
Schools can only charge a non-refundable amount of `25 from the parents as admission registration fee and the purchase of prospectus of the school by the parents has been kept optional.
AS PER the notified schedule, the first list of selected children will be displayed on March 20, followed by second list on March 25
New Delhi, Feb. 17: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a comprehensive economic cooperation and partnership agreement (CECPA) with Mauritius and a Rs 12,195-crore productionlinked incentive (PLI) scheme for telecom gear manufacturing.
The CECPA, a kind of a free trade pact, to be signed between India and Mauritius at a later date is aimed at liberalising norms to boost two-way commerce.
The agreement, cleared by the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would cover 310 export items for India, including foodstuff & beverages, agricultural products, textile & textile articles, base metals, electricals & electronic items, plastics & chemicals, and wood & its articles.
Mauritius would benefit from preferential market access into India for 615 products, including frozen fish, speciality sugar, biscuits, fresh fruit, juices, mineral water, beer, alcoholic drinks, soaps, bags, medical & surgical equipment and apparel, according to a government statement.
In such an agreement, two trading partners cut or eliminate duties on a host of products besides liberalising norms to promote services trade.
The pact would cover trade in goods, rules of origin, trade in services, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, dispute settlement, movement of natural persons, telecom, financial services, customs procedures and cooperation in other areas.
The bilateral trade between the countries dipped to $690 million in 201920 from $1.2 billion in 201819. While India's exports in 2019-20 aggregated at $662 million, imports stood at $27.89 million.
The over Rs 12,000-crore production-linked incentive scheme is expected to encourage production of telecom equipment worth Rs 2.44 lakh crore and create direct and indirect employment for about 40,000 people, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said after the Cabinet meeting. The PLI scheme for telecom will be operational from April 1, 2021.
"In the coming five years we hope to have incremental production of Rs 2,44,200 crore, export worth Rs 1,95,360 crore, direct and indirect employment to 40,000 people and tax revenue of approximately Rs 17,000 crore to the country," Prasad said.
According to an official statement, the scheme is expected to bring investment of over Rs 3,000 crore and generate huge direct and indirect employment and taxes both.
Separately, the Union food processing industries ministry said it has cleared 20 projects worth Rs 363.4 crore under two central government schemes. The government will provide a grant-in-aid of Rs 102.91 crore for these projects, which together are expected to generate 12,000 jobs and benefit 42,800 farmers, it said in a statement.
The projects have been cleared under the Scheme for Creation of Infra-structure for Agro-Processing Cluster (APC) and the scheme for Creation/ Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities (CEFPPC) under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY) approved in May 2017.