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Hello Jammu News at 7:33:00 PM 0


SRINAGAR, MAY 21: Governor N.N. Vohra inaugurated the Policy Consultative Workshop for Academic Leaders of J&K at Raj Bhavan here today. This Workshop, part of the “National Students Start-Up Policy”, was organized to promote and integrate the efforts being made by various institutions and at various levels in the State to support the Start-Up movements.
Ministry of Human Resource and Development had recently reached out to the office of the Governors of all States to extend innovation and Start-Up support to young students acrossall thee Universities. As a part of this initiative, a delegation led by Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe Chairman AICTE had met Governor Vohra on 12th  April 2018 at Raj Bhavan Jammu.  It was in this context that Governor hosted today’s Workshop involving all Universities and key stake holders of the National Start-Up ecosystem. J&K is the first State where the Governor has taken this initiative.
Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman All India Council for Technical  Education (AICTE), Prof. Sanjay Inamdar, Chairman, AICTE Start-up Policy Implementation Committee, Dr.  Unnat Pandit, Head, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Dr. H.K. Mittal, Member Secretary, National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) and a senior representative of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion , Union Ministry of Commerce and Industries, gave presentations  on the Start-Up scenario in the country and  a road-map to develop innovation and entrepreneurship culture across the Universities and educational institutions in J&K. Sh. Parvez Ahmed, Chairman, J&K Bank Ltd. who also participated, presented his suggestions on the role of financial institutions in promoting Start-Ups in the State.
 Vice-Chancellors and representatives of 15 institutions including the State Higher Education Department, University of Kashmir, University of Jammu, SKUAST-K, Central University of Kashmir, Central University of Jammu, Cluster University of Jammu, Cluster University of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI), Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, SKUAST-J, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, Department of Industry and Commerce, and J&K Bank participated in this Policy Design Workshop.
Addressing the Workshop Governor highlighted the importance of institutions of higher learning to institutionalising the Start-Up movement in order to harness the creative potential of youth. Governor observed that in order to translate our knowledge and expertise into viable commercial enterprises it is imperative that serious planned steps are taken to develop an innovation based Start-Up ecosystem which will also encourage students to find solutions to contemporary social challenges.
Stressing the importance of moving swiftly for mobilising an environment of entrepreneurship, he advised the Universities to collaborate with each other and pool their resources to create the infrastructure needed to realize the entrepreneurial potential of our youth. 
Governor noted that JKEDI had already commenced the process for formulating the Start-Up Policy for the State. He urged the State Government to develop an  innovation/student Start-Ups Hub which can be linked to all the University hubs. It was suggested that the Higher Education Department could develop a holistic Student Innovation and Start-Up Policy in line with the AICTE Start-Up Policy and each University in J&K should develop their own contextual framework to implement this Policy across their affiliated institutes. In addition, each College affiliated with a University should set up an innovation and Start-Up cell. Annually, the best student innovation and start-Ups could be showcased and awarded in a special function (Festival of Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship) hosted by Raj Bhavan with the Education Department to celebrate excellence and achievement of each University.
In his concluding remarks Governor observed that the Universities and institutes of education assume importance and relevance only when they get meaningfully involved in resolving local and regional problems. By tackling such challenges young students can become job providers with consequent socio-economic benefits all around.
 Governor advised the heads of the educational and other participating institutions to devise a  mechanism  with quantifiable and measurable outcomes for promoting entrepreneurship development. He observed that J&K abounds in opportunities for the promotion of a start-Up ecosystem. He particularly mentioned the high potential existing in the Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry and the Poultry sectors in which the State is presently a net importer.
 Governor urged the Vice Chancellor of Central University, Kashmir, the current Chairman of the J&K Vice Chancellor’s Forum to urgently invite all stakeholders including the JKEDI, to give actionable shape to the road map which had been proposed in today’s Workshop.
 Prof. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE, appreciated the initiative taken by Governor Vohra  and shared that this unique leadership effort can bring about a transformative impact in J&K in the foreseeable future. He assured all possible support for the student innovation and entrepreneurship movement in the State taken under the guidance of Governor J&K. Each participating institution committed to various action points which they would pursue to create a culture of student innovation and entrepreneurship in the State.
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Hello Jammu News at 8:32:00 PM 0
  KARGIL, MAY 02: Chairman and Chief Executive Councilor (CEC) Kargil Kacho Ahmad Ali Khan urged upon students to come forward and take full benefit of the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS).
 The CEC stated this while addressing students at an awareness programme on Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) organized by the Department of Higher Education and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in collaboration with Government Degree College Kargil at Auditorium Hall Kargil here today.
On the occasion resource persons including Director AICTE New Delhi Dr. Manpreet Singh, Member National Monitoring Committee for Minorities Education MHRD Irfan Ali Peerzada and State Nodal Officer PMSSS Ajit Angral enlightened the students about various aspects of PMSSS and career prospects associated with the scheme. 
The speakers explained how students can register online and get their documents verified and what precautionary measures have to be taken during registration, verification and counselling.
The CEC while hailing the initiative of Government Degree College Kargil for conducting the awareness session to disseminate information amongst the students expressed hope that it would play a pivotal role in enabling students to nourish their dreams to rise high and build a good future. 
He also expressed thankfulness to the resource persons to have come to the district to sensitize and encourage the students through the awareness programme.
Meanwhile, Chairperson Foundation for Holistic Development Madhuri Sahasbudhe delivered a motivational lecture while as Advisor Gujarat Technological University Prof N.K Goel, In Charge Principal Government Degree College Kargil Nassir Hussain Shabani and Coordinator PMSSS Kargil Dr Javed Naqi also spoke on the occasion.
Chief Education Officer Kargil Muhammad Mussa, Assistant Professors from Government Degree College Kargil, Principals of various Higher Secondary Schools, college staff and around 400 students attended the awareness programme.  
Pertinently under PMSSS students of the state are offered scholarships for pursuing undergraduate courses in Medical, Engineering and general streams outside the state for which amount of scholarship is paid by the AICTE.
Students who are the domicile residents of Jammu & Kashmir and have passed  10+2 examination from J&K Board or CBSE located in J&K and willing to study outside the State, having the family income of Rs. six lakh or below per annum are eligible to avail benefit under the scheme.
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Hello Jammu News at 1:18:00 PM 0


Kolkata, Apr 20: St Xavier's University, Kolkata, has received approval from AICTE to begin MBA course from the coming academic year 2018-19, according to Father J Felix Raj, SJ, Vice-Chancellor, St Xavier's University.
The Xavier Business School, under the university, has been given the permission by the AICTE to run two sections with 60 students each, from August 7 this year, he said addressing the media here on Thursday.
"It will be two-year full-time residential course, offering specializations in Marketing, Finance, Human Resources and Systems & Operations," Fr Felix Raj said.
He said eligible students who have passed XAT, GMAT, CAT, can apply for the course.
The VC said that the process of admission has already started and the university will hold group discussion at various centres outside Kolkata as well, depending on the quantum of applications received from each location.
St Xavier's University was established in 2017 as part of the vision 2020 plan of the St Xavier's College, Kolkata, a 158-year-old institution.
Fr Felix Raj said that the university began last year with two undergraduate courses and four postgraduate courses with 400 students.
"This year we are beginning 5 undergraduate courses and 6 postgraduate courses, including MBA," he said. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 8:11:00 PM 0



JAMMU, APRIL 13: Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), accompanied by Sh. Dipan Kr. Sahu, Consultant Student Start-up Policy Implementation Unit, met Governor N.N. Vohra at the Raj Bhavan.
Prof. Sahasrabudhe briefed Governor about the ongoing activities of the AICTE to bring about significant qualitative improvement in the technical education being imparted in the State and about the AICTE’s Student Start-up Policy which has been designed to guide AICTE approved institutions to promote student driven innovations and start-ups. He requested Governor, who is Chancellor of the State Universities, to help in institutionalising and integrating the efforts of the state Start-up Mission to harness creative potential of youth across academia.
Governor observed that Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra (SMVDU) has already established a Technology Business Incubation Centre (TBIC) for encouraging the spirit of entrepreneurship among the people of the State and has successfully incubated 12 Startups through the TBIC. The University has also organised the “Innovation Challenge” and is engaged in organising Hackathon-2018 in May, 2018.
Governor lauded Prof. Sahasrabudhe’s initiative in supporting efforts to identify the innovative and entrepreneurial potential of students and transforming them into start-up entrepreneurs. Governor assured Prof. Sahasrabudhe that he would very soon convene a meeting of all VCs and heads of Higher Education Institutions in the State to discuss and prepare a roadmap for this purpose.

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Hello Jammu News at 6:57:00 PM 0


5000 scholarships available for professional, general, medical, dental courses for 2018-19
NEW DELHI, APRIL 10: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has started the process for registration of students from Jammu and Kashmir for Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS).
The online registration under PMSSS for the academic session 2018-19 for students from J&K who have qualified 10+2 examination is open from 10th April 2018 while for Lateral Entry Admission (2nd year) for students with Diploma in Engineering registration will be open from 17th April 2018. The last date for registration for students who have qualified 10+2 examination is 9th May 2018 while for Lateral Entry Admissions, the last date for registration is 16th May 2018.
Students having domicile of J&K who have passed Class 12th examination from J&K State Board of School Education or CBSE affiliated schools within J&K are only eligible for registration under PMSSS. The family income of the student should be upto Rs 8 lakh per annum.
The students can register online on the link: www.aicte-jk-scholarship-gov.in. The students who qualify NEET and JEE are also required to register online to become eligible for the scholarship.
According to Secretary School Education, Mr Farooq A Shah, 5000 scholarships are available to JK students under PMSSS for the academic session 2018-19 including 2070 for general courses, 2830 for professional courses and 100 for medical and dental courses.
Under PMSSS scholarship upto Rs 30000 per annum per students is available for general courses, upto Rs 1.25 lakh per annum per student for engineering courses and upto Rs 3 lakh per annum per student for medical/dental courses. Besides, every student is entitled upto Rs 1 lakh per annum as maintenance charges. The students taking admission, by virtue of their own merit, in institutions like IITs, NITs, Medical Colleges, Dental Colleges and Central Universities outside J&K are also eligible for scholarship under PMSSS.
While the tuition fee of the students admitted under PMSSS is being directly transferred by AICTE to the concerned colleges, the maintenance charges, including hostel fee, books and stationary and other incidentals are being transferred into the account of the concerned student under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
Around 16500 students from J&K have availed the scholarships under PMSSS since the inception of the scheme in 2012-13.
Most of the students from J&K have previously secured admission in some of the reputed colleges across the country. These include Delhi College of Engineering, Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, St Stephens College Delhi, University Institute of Engineering and Technology Rohtak, Lady Shri Ram College for Women New Delhi, Birla Institute of Technology Jharkhand, Rajiv Gandhi Government Engineering College Himachal Pradesh (HP), Netaji Subash Institute of Technology, Delhi and DAV College Haryana.
Pertinently, the state’s Education Department and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have fine-tuned the admission procedure under PMSSS to ensure admission of students only in the recognized and reputed colleges of the country.
The role of the touts in the form of some dubious NGOs, who earlier misused the scheme and fleeced the gullible students, has been completely eliminated, and the scheme has been refurbished to make it beneficial for the students from J&K.
Pertinently, J&K’s Minister for Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari had recently called on Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Mr Prakash Javadekar seeking inclusion of more courses under PMSSS and waiving off upper income limit and also covering matriculates with diplomas and Post-Graduation Courses under PMSSS.

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Hello Jammu News at 12:02:00 PM 0


New Delhi, Apr 7: The survey by Stanford University has presented a very inspiring picture about the skill levels and gains of social disadvantaged students as compared to advantaged students.
The survey, a joint initiative of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Stanford University to assess and improve the skills of engineering students in India, would help the Government to consider targeted policies that reduce disparities and contribute to a more equitable, prosperous society.
The survey report was shared by senior economist Tara Beteille, Education, World Bank.
The assessment, divided into three phases and started from February 2017, developed and used tests that are cross-culturally valid, equitable, and free from bias.
Approximately 5,000 students (1st, 2nd and 4th year), 600 faculty and 30 department heads were involved in the pilot survey which include the data from February to June 2017. 
Clinical pilots were conducted with students in order to check for language ambiguity, formatting, relevance, difficulty etc. Based on the results of the expert evaluations and the small-scale pilot study, the instruments were prepared for the Phase 2 survey which included eight elite institutes and 42 non-elite institutes.
The Baseline Survey test (Phase-II), which was held between 23 Oct 2017 – 11 Nov 2017, included major two parts --Academic tests (Mathematics and Physics) and Higher order thinking tests (Critical thinking, Quantitative Literacy, Creativity and Test of Relational Reasoning.
In this survey, approximately 18,000 students (1st and 3rd year), 3500 faculty and 100 department heads were involved from AICTE approved Institutions. And in 118 TEQIP funded institutes approximately 27,453 students (1st and 3rd year), 4,300 faculty and 200 department heads were selected.
The outcome of the survey showed a different picture of India’s system of affirmative action (“reservations”) which is one of the most comprehensive in the world.
Disadvantaged students make significantly more gains than advantaged students in math, physics, and quantitative literacy from year 1 to year 3. In non-elite institutes, they start to catch up in math, physics and quantitative literacy by year 3.
However, these Disadvantaged students unsurprisingly start out (in year 1) substantially behind in all subjects.
Meanwhile, the survey also included different student sub-groups consisting of Female, SC/ST/OBC, Economically Disadvantaged, and Rural are considered for comparison in Elite and Non-elite institutions to help the Government to consider targeted policies that reduce disparities and contribute to a more equitable, prosperous society.
The assessment indicated that females are under-represented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields in Elite institution but are well-represented in non-elite institutes.
Women students make considerable gains in college in elite and non-elite.
While, in Non-elite Institutions (nationally), Female students start out (in year one ) behind male students in quantitative literacy and very small students in amount in physics. However, female and male student differences are essentially the same in year 1 as year 3 (female students are still behind in physics, and a little behind in higher order thinking skills).
The Rural versus Urban Student differences depicted that in year one, rural students start out behind (in all skills) urban students in both the National and TEQIP samples.
While rural students remain behind urban students in Year 3, they sometimes make more gains than urban students (depending on the exam and institution type) and never fail to make at least equal gains.
The survey done in Economically Disadvantaged (Low Ses-Socio Economic Status) students group in elite institutions revealed that they unsurprisingly start out (in year 1) substantially behind in all subjects but make significantly more gains than High SES students in physics from year 1 to year 3 in both nationally and in TEQIP colleges. Students in TEQIP colleges also make significant gains in maths and quantitative literacy.
The purpose of the Program is to assess and improve the skills of engineering students in India. The MoU with Stanford University was signed on February 6, 2017. The program was intended to benefit Colleges and Students by improving the understanding of how much students are learning as well as how different institutional characteristics, faculty characteristics, teaching practices, and peer/student behaviours contribute to student learning. 
The survey team developed an assessment framework to measure and compare skill levels and gains across technical programs. They developed and used tests that are cross-culturally valid, equitable, and free from bias. Also used tests developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). ETS develops tests through a rigorous process and is known to meet the highest standards for quality and fairness in the testing industry.
The Phase 3 timeline is from April 2018 to September 2019. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 7:14:00 PM 0

SRINAGAR, JULY 21: After the second round of counseling which concluded here on Tuesday, 3193 seats have been filled in various technical and general courses under the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) for J&K students.
The counseling was simultaneously held at the designated Centres including Amar Singh College, Srinagar, Government College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu and Government Eliezer Joldan Memorial College, Leh.
According to a notification issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), while all the seats have been filled under un-reserved quota, 237 seats have remained unfilled in reserved categories. The unfilled seats include 224 in technical courses including engineering, hotel management, pharmacy, nursing and architecture and 13 seats in general courses.
The filled seats include 2606 in engineering, 487 in general courses and 100 in medical and dental courses.
Education Minister, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari said he will take up the issue of converting unfilled reserved category seats into un-reserved seats with AICTE so that no seat under PMSSS goes unfilled this year as well and maximum number of students are able to benefit from the flagship scheme. He hailed the AICTE authorities for ensuring effective and hassle-free  implementation of the pioneering scholarship scheme for J&K students which has already benefitted thousands of youth facilitating them to go for higher studies in the institutions of repute outside the State.

Under PMSSS scholarship to J&K students upto Rs 30000 per annum per student is available for general courses, upto Rs 1.25 lakh per annum per student for engineering courses and upto Rs 3 lakh per annum per student for medical/dental courses. Besides, every student is entitled upto Rs 1 lakh per annum as maintenance charges.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:35:00 PM 0

SRINAGAR, MAY 26: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is going to organize Grievance redressal camp for the students of Jammu and Kashmir at its office in the national capital.
The camp will be held at AICTE Nelson Mandela Marg in New Delhi to address the issues faced by students of J and K studying in different educational institutions across the country under Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme.

 The AICTE has asked the students from J and K having any specific grievances concerning the release of scholarship under the scheme to attend the camp on June 3 at 11 AM onwards. 
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