Schools in eight NCR districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Meerut, Ghaziabad, and Gautam Buddh Nagar, have suspended physical classes due to worsening air quality under GRAP Stage-4 measures. Measures include construction bans and penalties for pollution violations.
Meanwhile, the school management has suspended the principal and two teachers in view of the controversy.
Though the VHP accused the teacher of hurting the sentiments of the Hindus, the prayer was later found to have been written by famous Urdu poet Allama Iqbal, who is also known to have written ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha, Hindustan Hamara.’
According to reports, the school management had confined the children in a room on Saturday because of non-payment of fees.
According to an order issued by the additional chief secretary home, Avanish Awasthi, the date of school closure has been extended from earlier January 30 to February 15.
The schools will continue to charge fees as per the 2019-20 session.
Taking cognisance of the matter, the CDO terminated the services of the cooks on the spot and suspended principal Garima Singh Rajput.
A 'realisation curriculum' will be introduced in over 150 schools in 15 districts in Uttar Pradesh from the next academic session of 2022-2023.
79,400 girls have completed their courses at 746 branches of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) in Uttar Pradesh.
The Uttar Pradesh government issued a mandate to re-open schools in the state with 50 per cent attendance on August 2.
UP government has increased the basic facilities for students in 1.39 lakh primary schools that now have smart classrooms, playgrounds, toilets, drinking water, and libraries.
Uttar Pradesh government on Friday ordered the closing of schools - both government and private - for students of classes 1 to 8 till April 11 in the wake of the Covid-19 situation in the state.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday directed all residential schools to reopen for Classes 9-12 from February 9.
The Uttar Pradesh Government has issued guidelines for the reopening of schools for classes 6-8 from February 10 and from March 1 for students of classes 1-5 amid COVID-19.
According to Sitapur Superintendent of Police (SP) R.P. Singh, the incident took place on Saturday afternoon and Aradhana Roy, an assistant teacher, was shot twice by her male colleague, Amit Kaushal.
With the aim to teach boys in Uttar Pradesh that they should respect a woman, the Yogi Adityanath government has gone in for a paradigm shift in the syllabus for basic and secondary education.
A three-year-old girl died after she fell into a vessel in which mid-day meal was being cooked for the school kids at Rampur Atari primary school in Lalganj area of Mirzapur. The incident took place on Sunday and the deceased has been identified as Anchal.
In August, a government school in Mirzapur was found to be serving flatbread with salt to schoolchildren as part of the midday meal. As a video of this got viral, a few education officials were transferred while the journalist who had broken the news was sent to jail.
In a bid to punish a nine-year-old for complaining against his teacher, a school in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district has certified the child "characterless" in his Transfer Certificate that could hamper his admission in any other school and destroy his future, a parent said.
The morning assembly sessions and extra-curricular activities at all government schools in Uttar Pradesh will henceforth be held in the open instead of inside classrooms and auditoriums. The idea behind this is to boost calcium and Vitamin D in students.
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