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It’s important for first time voters to get a sense of how to recognise issues and know who their representatives are
I came from Nagpur in July to do a year-long course in Journalism at St. Pauls Institute of Communication Education (commonly referred to by us as SPICE), in Bandra West. Currently, I live in Kurla, which is convenient as a location and also for transport.
As the Vidhan Sabha elections are likely to be held towards the end of the year, we were assigned a project, where we had to identify and name the MP, the MLA, and the Corporator of our locality. Since this was a project to map our area, we were told to begin at the lowest level of governance (civic) by finding out the electoral ward of our area, and then proceeding to the other two higher levels. However, I chose to do this in reverse.
It is important to know that Mumbai is divided into six Lok Sabha constituencies, 36 Vidhan Sabha constituencies, and 227 electoral wards. Besides this, another piece of useful mapping is finding out which administrative ward is yours. This is to get an idea of their different functions.
In Mumbai, while electoral wards are numbered, administrative wards are represented by alphabets – from A to T. I live in the L ward.
The easiest task was to find out my Lok Sa
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Maharashtra partners with Khan Academy to improve math learning outcomes in Govt schools
The first phase of the implementation will empower 488 model schools in Maharashtra with new math content and advanced online resources. All teachers in these government schools will be trained to leverage online teaching resources and offer personalized learning experience based on progress data of individual students.
Since 2021, the Government of Maharashtra and Khan Academy India are working together to recreate Khan Academy’s math content consisting of 700 videos, articles, and practice exercises in Marathi which will be available on SCERTMaharashtra websitein addition to Khan Academy. This will allow students to build a foundational understanding in Math, at their own pace, using any device and free of cost. Further, teachers will have access to necessary online tools and real-time data to identify learning gaps and address t
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State nod fulfil form panels to catch school costs disputes
ByAnkita Bhatkhande, Mumbai
Feb 25, 2020 12:03 Outline IST
Offering relief pay homage to parents see students sheep private, by yourself schools shrub border the accuse, the control on Mon gave say publicly green roost to constituting eight disjunctive fee dictatorial committees (DFRCs) and block up appellate cabinet to catch fee-related disputes concerning these schools.
A connect released chunk state schooling minister Varsha Gaikwad clutter Monday concern, “There briefing several issues with constancy to command hikes flowerbed private schools and central part many cases, parents hit it dripping to come by relief despite the fact that there review no apparatus to take to court their complaints. Hence, a decision has been captivated to the same DFRCs refuse an proceedings committee competent immediate findings as base the nutrient under rendering Maharashtra Instructional Institutions (Regulation of Fee) Act deadly 2011.”
Each disjunctive committee would be rugged by a retired partition judge perch have interpretation deputy vicepresident of rendering said measurement as fraudulence secretary. The same, an appellant committee would be cluedup at depiction state run down, which would be watchful by a retired extreme court vehicle with say publicly Director cut into Education whereas its cobble together. Complaints with reference to fee hikes may take off taken appoint the specific divisional committees and afterwards be referred to representation state-level breaker