SKUAST-Jammu organized an awareness-cum-training programme on Vegetable /Seed production at Village Gajansoo, Block Marh in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Agri-Entrepreneur Development Association. The program was attended by 50 progressive vegetable growers from 16 different villages of Marh block.

The Government and the World Bank signed yesterday three loan agreements providing additional financing of US$98 million for the Road Sector Assistance Project; US$43 million for the North East Housing Reconstruction Program; and US$10 million for the Education Sector Development Project, the World Bank said.

the Department of Drinking Water Supply (ddws) on July 20 invited private standalone water purifying companies to showcase latest technologies and equipment. The government wants to install 30,000 water purifying systems in rural schools to provide children with safe drinking water. About 84,000 schools in rural India do not have access to water that is safe to drink. The water purifier

Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 10

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the country would go all out observing the International Literacy Day tomorrow, Orissa literally suffers from a literacy deficiency. The urban-rural divide is sharp with the latter hosting 39 percent illiterate population against 17 percent in the urban agglomerations.

The annual status of education report-2007 (ASER-07), in fact, puts it in the right perspective, against the backdrop of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in force since 2002.

Shimla, September 08 On the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of International Literacy Day, Governor Prabha Rau gave out a message to have a focused policy to educate adults under the Continuing Education Campaign. The CEC was the third phase of the Literacy Mission that was launched in the country in 1988, but it could not take off in Himachal except in Mandi district.

Mohali, September 07 Free land, Rs 2.5 crore for private school
The Punjab government has formulated a new scheme to improve the poor state of education in the state.

Under this scheme, the state government will provide free land and Rs 2.5 crore as capital investment to open a new school that would be run and managed by the private sector.

Punjab Chief Secretary Ramesh Inder Singh said this while addressing an exposition on rural education revolution organised by the Kalgidhar Trust of Baru Sahib in Mohali late on Saturday evening.

DH News Service, Mudigere:

Taluk Implementation Committee President and MLA Kumaraswwamy has informed that various developmental projects of Rs 356 lakh has been chalked out and has been approved by the Government under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.