News in brief from across the state today (video)

Ahmedabad, 15 March, 2012

-Cotton ginners of Saurashtra have started an indefinite strike from today protesting against conditional notification issued by the centre on cotton export ban. The strike involves 600 ginners.

-Ahmedabad court to further hear the plea seeking clarification whether the SIT report is public document or not.

-Former IPS and team Anna member Kiran Bedi was in Nadiad today where she said that Gujarat Lokayukta Act should be as strong as the Lokayukta law in Uttarakhand.

-Results of Gujarat Congress’s youth wing polls are arrived. Manish Dodiya has been elected as new President , while Prakash Gurjar as new Vice President.

-Sindhi community in Gujarat will celebrate Sindhi new year festival ‘Chetichand’ on 24 March.

-Surat district Congress President and MLA of Bardoli Kunvarji Halpati is in discussion in the district these days for his alleged efforts to harass the school teachers who stopped his son from copying in Biology exam. According to a news report published locally, Kunvarji threatened a teacher of Ramkabir school in Bardoli for not allowing his son to copy in state education board exam. The report says that MLA Halpati over a phone call threatened the school teacher. Halpati’s son is 12th Science student and according to the report his son was not allowed to copy in Biology exam. Angry Halpati later started complaining against the exam supervisors after which the district education officer changed all 32 supervisors and brought the staff from various schools in the district.

-As per the report finalized after statewide Gunotsav exercise, only 2306 out of total 1.72 teachers and 791 out of total 34000 schools have scored above 8(out of 10).

While 791 (2.33%) schools have got more tha 8 marks, 14105 (41.58%) schools have got 6-8 marks. 15041(44.34%) schools have got 4-6 marks while 3229(9.52%) schools have got 2-4 marks. 756(2.23%) have got 0-2 marks. Gujarat has total 33922 primary schools.

In teachers category, 2306(1.33%) have got 8.5 or more marks while 56597(32.93%) have got 6.5-8.5 marks. Maximum 101992(58.98%) have got 4.5-6.5 marks while 9514(5.50%) have got 4-6.5 marks. 2507(1.45%) teachers have got only 0-2 marks. Gujarat has 172916 teachers in govt primary schools.

-68 youths including three doctors, 17 engineers, one MBA, one pilot, 7 B.pharm, one M.pharm, two teachers and three master degree holders took Tyagashram diksha at Sarangpur in Ahmedabad district under the spiritual leadership of Pramukhswami. Some of them are NRI Gujarati youths.