{"id":80475,"date":"2019-10-02T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=80475"},"modified":"2019-10-02T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:09:00","slug":"govt-may-re-examine-feasibility-of-running-polytechnics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/govt-may-re-examine-feasibility-of-running-polytechnics\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt may re-examine feasibility of running polytechnics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 1:<\/strong> Education Secretary Madhu Rani Teotia said that feasibility of running several government polytechnic institutes in the state requires re-examination due to &#8220;low student enrolment.&#8221;<br \/>\nTeotia said the annual student enrolment in seven polytechnic institutes during 2019-20 was only 40.67 percent of the total approved intake capacity of 890, adding that the central government has sanctioned 14 polytechnics in the state.<br \/>\nThe education secretary highlighted these points during an interactive meeting with the principals and principals-in-charge of all the government polytechnic institutes here on Tuesday.<br \/>\nShe said that technical education is a very important part of the higher education system and needs special thrust for its proper growth.<br \/>\n&#8220;The polytechnic institutes have a vital role to play in the growth of technical education in the state,&#8221; Teotia said.<br \/>\nShe emphasized on the need of sensitizing the students about the government polytechnic institutes in the state and the courses they offer.<br \/>\n&#8220;The government may consider granting study leave to eligible faculty members to enhance their knowledge and qualification,&#8221; education secretary said, while informing that the recruitment rules for all the sanctioned posts, including the posts of principal, should be finalized at the earliest.<br \/>\nShe also said that some urgent requirements of the polytechnic institutes would be met from the Chief Minister Samast Shiksha Yojana.<br \/>\nEarlier, Technical Education Deputy Director S Bengia highlighted the present scenario of polytechnic education in the state.<br \/>\nDirector of Higher and Technical Education Dr Tayek Talom, Deputy Director A Jonkey, FAO AK Saha, SLO Dr AK Misra, Deputy SPD (RUSA) Minto Ete, and the principal and principals-in-charge of Rajiv Gandhi Government Polytechnic, Government Polytechnic Dirang, Government Polytechnic Laying, Government Polytechnic Pasighat, Government Polytechnic, Roing and Government Polytechnic Namsai attended the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Oct 1: Education Secretary Madhu Rani Teotia said that feasibility of running several government polytechnic institutes in the state requires re-examination due to &#8220;low student enrolment.&#8221; Teotia said the annual student enrolment in seven polytechnic institutes during 2019-20 was only 40.67 percent of the total approved intake capacity of 890, adding that the central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}