Priyanka Sahoo

Tawde told The Sunday Express: “We are trying to understand where the gaps are. Sometimes, there aren’t enough teachers, sometimes there isn’t a proper infrastructure. "

Reliance Infra (RInfra) has decided to sell its integrated power operations in Mumbai — generation, transmission and distribution of power in the city and suburbs — to Adani Transmission Limited (ATL).

In line with the direction of Governor and Chancellor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, the state higher and technical education department has set up three committees to conduct academic audits of all 778 affiliated colleges of the university.

The device is currently made at a cost of Rs 5,500 but researchers feel that when the device is produced at a commercial scale, the cost could come down to Rs1,500.

While traditionally retired IAS officers have held the positions at the MERC, 1985-batch IAS officer Mukesh Khullar decided to continue to be on the state government’s payroll till his retirement in February 2019.

But applicants need to give undertaking that validity certificate will be submitted within three months.

This is the first time applicants have been asked to furnish caste validity certificates at the time of application. Earlier, applicants provided an affidavit stating that they would furnish their caste validity certificates to the institute within six months of admission.

While the discom is set to provide power between 7 am and 12 am, the undertaking is also set to buy 250 MW from Tata Power for supply between 9 am and 7pm. The undertaking records a base load of 300 MW throughout the day.

RETURNING TO studies after a gap of 20 years was no mean task for 36-year-old Sushma Ombale, a homemaker and mother of two. And yet, she scored 61 per cent in her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam, more than her 15-year-old son.

After two years of poor performance, students in the Mumbai division of the Maharashtra state board appear to have done marginally better in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam this year.

While 125 students across Maharashtra scored a perfect 100 percent, in Mumbai division only four had scored 100 percent marks. 33 schools have got zero pass percentage.

A CROWDFUNDING campaign was launched on Wednesday by protesting students at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, to aid OBC students, who are unable to pay the fees for the upcoming semester.

The commission is hearing a complaint filed by protesting students over the institute’s decision to withdraw financial aid to the incoming batch of students, who are eligible for the scholarship.

One of the deliverables of the school, that came into being in September last year, was policy-level intervention and giving back to the society, said Neeraj Hatekar, a professor from the school.

While Bohari was earlier the principal judge at the Nagpur family court, Khullar was the Additional Chief Secretary, Personnel, in the state government. They will be sworn in on Wednesday. Khullar will continue to be on the state government’s payroll till his retirement in February 2019.

In 2016, 3 premier art institutions in Mumbai — Sir JJ Schools of Architecture, Applied & Fine Arts — were permitted to apply for autonomy. Rajiv Mishra, director of Directorate of Art and principal of the school of architecture, tells the Indian Express about the state of affairs

The school has earlier helped the University of Mumbai air-condition its Cowasji Jehangir Convocation Hall at the Fort campus.

In Mumbai, as many as 1.44 lakh students were admitted to commerce and allied courses, as per data from the University of Mumbai.

A fire on Thursday night in an interconnecting transformer of the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL) gutted the cables of two of the three units transmitting power to the city.