Nine AMU schools to get Rs 84 crore for upgrade

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to allocate Rs 84 crore to the varsity to help these schools meet KV parameters.

Updated on: Jan 2, 2012, 23:23:45 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Nine schools affiliated to the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will be brought on par with Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV). The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to allocate Rs 84 crore to the varsity to help these schools meet KV parameters.

A majority of the 15,000 students in these schools, including the one run by the AMU Students Union, are Muslims.

The decision came at a time when the UPA government has announced several schemes for the welfare of minorities in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. The government had announced 4.5 % reservation for minorities in 27% seats reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in jobs and admissions.

Upon a directive from the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry, the UGC will also provide money to the varsity administration to take over ABK High School, started by the students union in 1946. The school has more than 3,000 students and 94 teachers.

However, the UGC has decided the school will be taken over only if the present management structure can be razed and the school staff upgrade their skills to fulfill KV norms. “Time will be given to the existing staff to upgrade their skills,” UGC chairperson Ved Prakash told HT.

The UGC will increase the teachers’ salaries once they upgrade their skills.

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Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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