Today’s Dharitri has an article on people lining up to buy plus two forms in various colleges in Berhampur. Based on that article, following is a possibly incomplete list of options for pursuing plus two in Berhampur.
- Khallikote Junior College (govt.)
- Binayak Acharya govt. college
- Sashibhushan Rath govt. womens college
- Mahamayee womens college
- Roland Supriya junior college
- Jagannath college
- Gayatri plus two science residential college for Boys, Berhampur
- Gayatri womens’ college, Berhampur
- Vedavyasa college
- City College
- Model womens college
- S D womens college
- Cambridge college
- Gyanamandira (the plus 2 extension of Saraswati sishu mandira)
Update June 4 2007: Reader Gopal names additional plus two colleges in the area. Thanks. His list is as follows:
- Herambhalaya residential college
- Deccan College
- Gopalpur Science College
- University Science college
- Vidya Science Junior College
- Aryabhatta College
- +2 Science at De’ Paul School
- +2 Science at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Berhampur
- +2 Science at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Gopalpur
June 3rd, 2007
Following are ads of some coaching schools in Bhubaneswar that I came across.
- IBOOKS IIT medical coaching (web)
- Padhees tutorial
- Narayana coaching
- Naidu Coaching
- KIIT JEE coaching
May 31st, 2007
With the Class X result out there have many many ads for various plus 2; most of them for plus 2 sc. Following is a collection of the ads that I came across. An earlier list is at http://www.orissawatch.org/?p=182.
Continue Reading May 30th, 2007
Financial Express probes the efficacy of big spending of UPA in last three years in primary education in the hinterland of the country.Â
It says the Orissa state government has created an online database of all the 98 lakh children between the 1-14 years age group.
It continues on saying that the Orissa state government wants to use Sarva Sikhya Abhiyan to enroll all children between 6-14 years of age in schools but this attempt, many say, has failed. But nothing is hunky dory. To make matters worse, students enroll and drop out after obtaining scholarships, a problem which is acute in districts like Kalahandi. Moreover, attendance is as low as 30 to 50% in most schools and the school dropout rate is as high as 50%, according to various estimates.
The government must choose alternative way like establishing primary school in every village which has more than 250 populations in hinterland such as KBK (where many villages are located in deep forest).Â
May 30th, 2007
As mentioned in the PIB press release
2180 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) have been sanctioned upto March 2007, which includes 1000 new KGBVs in 2006-07. 88% of KGBVs have been operationalised. A major national evaluation conducted this year has shown that the scheme has received ‘high priority and political attention in all States and has been launched in record time with a clear commitment to reach out to out-of-school girls. The programme has been very well received by the community and has responded to diverse poverty situations including remote inaccessible locations’.
More details on this program is mentioned in another PIB release. In Orissa 49 such schools are being set up. Somehow Orissa seems to be lagging behind with respect to this scheme. Andhra Pradesh is leading in taking advantage of this scheme.
May 24th, 2007
From http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=28152
Raising public spending in Education; Commitment to universalise access to quality basic education; Revision of National Curriculum Framework for School Education; Strengthening Technical Education and Expansion of Higher Education are some of the highlights of the major initiatives of the Ministry of Human Resource Development during the last three years. These are:-
Continue Reading May 23rd, 2007
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas are CBSE board schools set up by the MHRD across India. As per their website their objective is:
* to provide good quality modern education to the talented children predominently from the rural areas, without regard to their family’s socio-economic condition.
* to ensure that all students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas attain a reasonable level of competence in three languages as envisaged in the Three Language Formula.
* to serve, in each district, as focal points for improvements in quality of school education in general through sharing of experiences and facilities.
In Orissa currently there are several such schools with the school in Cuttack as the nodal school.
Continue Reading May 22nd, 2007
During the last several years several new plus two science colleges have opened in Orissa; especially in the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack area. Here is an attempt to make a list for the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack area, as I am more familiar with it. (I will appreciate if the readers can point to the ones I am missing so that we can create a more comprehensive list.) I start with the plus two programs that have been there for some time.
Continue Reading May 19th, 2007
New Indian Express reports that with seven more Ekalabya Schools of Orissa starting +2 science with 60 seats each, now all 10 Ekalabya Schools of Orissa will have +2 Science. I hope all 600 of these students each year get at least into 5 yr integrated MSc, Engineering or Medicine (and avail of ST quotas when necessary). That would be tremendous. Following is an excerpt from the New Indian Express article:
Continue Reading May 6th, 2007
I wrote the following in 1996 as a tribute to my teachers in Bhubaneswar who shaped my career. Although at that time, I had lost touch with many of those teachers, since then I have reconnected with some of them and at times will write about them.
Continue Reading May 2nd, 2007
Sambada (in Oriya) reports on the planning going on to make secondary education universal. At the central level this is supposed to be a goal in the 11th plan. At the state level plans are afoot to open high schools in 900+ panchayats that do not have them.
April 21st, 2007
(Editor’s comment: Please read more about the noble RMTS effort and consider contributing to it.)
Dear Friends: Please read the mail below from Dr. Swadheen Pattanayak and rejoice. It has been long 4 years but it seems only the other day when the list of 30 students selected from 1st RMTS(2003) was forwarded by Swadheen, to me in December 2003. Himalaya was second of thirty in the list of merit.
Continue Reading March 24th, 2007
A press release mentions that the UPA government has opened 72 Ekalavya Vidyalayas in tribal areas across India. 10 of those are in Orissa. Each is constructed using an one time allocation of 250 lakhs towards school building, hostels, teachers’ quarters, library, laboratory etc. An annual grant of 30 lakhs is then given to run the school.
March 14th, 2007
The following is from the 2007-08 budget speech:
Means-Cum-Merit Scholarships
20. While the SSA has improved the enrolment ratio in schools to 96 per cent, the drop out ratio continues to be high. The critical year appears to be transition from class VIII to class IX. In order to arrest the drop out ratio and encourage students to continue their education beyond class VIII, I propose to introduce a National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme. Selection will be made through a national test from among students who have passed class VIII. Each student will be given Rs.6,000 per year for study in classes IX, X, XI and XII. I propose that 100,000 scholarships may be awarded every year. In order to fund this programme, I intend to create a corpus fund of Rs.750 crore this year, and add a like amount to the fund every year over the next three years. Accordingly, a sum of Rs.750 crore will be placed with the State Bank of India, and the yield from the fund will be used for awarding the scholarships.
I like the above provision, especially the number of scholarships and the “means” aspect of it. What exactly the “means” cut-off would be remains to be seen. If this scholarship allows poor motivated students to chose the school of their choice then it will be similar to the voucher system used in Michigan. One worry is that the poor students will use the scholarship money for their family expenses and not for their educational expenses. I would also suggest that the number of scholarships be increased by at least 10% every year and the corresponding amout added to the corpus every year. Besides, private donations to the corpus should be encouraged and as the corpus grows the number of scholarships should grow.
February 28th, 2007
Purna Mishra has created a 19 page document on the dismal status of technical education in Orissa. Commenting on that Dr. Sri Gopal Mohanty discusses below the dismal state of state funded education in Orissa. This is what he has to say:
Continue Reading February 8th, 2007
In separate news 9 more poytechnics will be established in various districts of Orissa during the 11th plan and 7 more Ekalabya vidyalas (residential schools in tribal regions) will be established with classes from VI-XII and XI-XII will be added to the exisiting three Ekalabya Vidyalayas.
Eight of the ITIs are reported to be established in the districts of Kalahandi, Koraput, Kandhamala, Nabarangpur, Boudh, Ganjam, Sambalpur and Balasore.
Continue Reading February 8th, 2007
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