An invention to fight COVID-19: The Crowd and Mask Monitoring System We wanted a simple advisory system to warn students of breaching social distancing norms at selected locations, Dr. PB Sujit, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IISER Bhopal, said
Joe C Mathew | February 22, 2021 | Updated 14:09 IST
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal have developed a low-cost Crowd and Mask Monitoring System, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The AI-enabled device will replicate manual policing to ensure COVID-19 prevention norms are being followed.
The institute plans to use this AI-powered system on its campus as it commences the process of bringing students back in phases. The students will be expected to maintain a minimum of three feet of social distancing.
Released 34 years after the previous policy on education, the National Education Policy, 2020 is framed in a context that is unrecognisable from that of the past policies. This article examines the discursive framework underlying the current policymaking process.
The National Education Policy, 2020 (henceforth NEP 2020) is framed in a policy parlance, qualitatively different from that characterising the previous two national policies of 1968 and 1986. The possibilities for educational thinking it unveils (as also conceals) and the policy concerns it includes or excludes, reveal a value laden state policymaking exercise. Its ideological–philosophical moorings were readied by preceding draft policy documents released by the Government of India since 2016. These draft texts include: Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (MHRD) Subramanian Committee’s National Policy on Education 2016 report, its companion document “Some Inputs for a draft National Education Policy 2016,”
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MYSURU: At a time when many children could not make the most of their free time during the lockdown induced by the pandemic, a 15-year-old girl from a remote village in Mysuru took it as an opportunity to try her hands at gourd art . She developed the skill to such an extent that she bagged an award in a national event which concluded recently.
Chandana A, a Class 9 student of the government high school in GB Saragur of HD Kote taluk, has made the state proud by winning second place in the national-level Kala Utsav, an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan. Her artwork helped her bag the award for the state under the category Indigenous Toys and Games .
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The National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, is offering a one year Urdu language diploma course for starters. The correspondence course offered through English or Hindi medium will be conducted by Madurai-based Gausiya Foundation.
Contact classes will be conducted during weekends and study materials provided free of cost.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development will provide the certificate after successful completion of the course.
Interested candidates can collect the application forms from Gausiya Foundation office at 1/A, Anna Nagar main road, near Aravind Eye Hospital.
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Ludhiana: A documentary on the farmers protest going on at Singhu Border was released this afternoon by photographer and industrialist Ranjodh Singh at Mata Tripta Ji Hall, Ramgarhia Girls College. “This photo-montage has hundreds of photos which capture the angst and agony of the farmers who are fighting for their rights. Each face has a story to tell. Farmers are the backbone of the country”, said Ranjodh Singh. The team behind the lens comprises Ranjodh Singh, Ashwinder Sethi, and Jaskaran Singh. Script was originally written in Punjabi by Ranjodh Singh and Prof Gurbhajan Gill.
Competition on heritage handicrafts
Khalsa College for Women Civil Lines Ludhiana, organised one day inter-college competition on heritage handicrafts in the college Main Hall. Around 25 students participated in the competition and exhibited their talent by making various handicrafts such as “gudia patole, chhikku, pranda, tokri, mitti de khidone etc”. The Principal, Dr Mukti Gill was the c