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Time of India
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Driving licences to be delivered at applicants' doorstep: Govt
Bhopal: Driving licences in Madhya Pradesh will now be dispatched directly to the homes of applicants, transport minister Udai Pratap Singh told the state assembly on Wednesday. Responding to a debate on the MP Motor Vehicle Taxation (Amendment) Act, Singh said the transport dept was focused not just on tax collection but also on improving public services. "Most jobs done at RTOs have an online facility now thereby saving people from making rounds of RTO and only when a photo of a person has to be clicked, he has to go to the RTO office," the minister said. "Be it applying for a licence or a permit or paying a penalty, everything can be done online and the department now proposes to dispatch smart licence cards to the home address of the applicants," he said. Earlier, BJP MLA Vhgwandas Sabnani requested the minister to give smart card-like licences to people so that it was easily preserved and also send the licences to the home address of the applicant as the passport offices do.
Time of India
30-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Minister replies in Sanskrit, wins applause in House
Bhopal: School education minister Udai Pratap Singh drew applause in the assembly on Wednesday when he delivered part of his reply in Sanskrit, responding to a call attention motion read out in the classical language by BJP MLA Abhishek Pandey. Pandey, raising the issue of promoting Sanskrit education in MP, began by announcing he would read his motion in Sanskrit. "Since my call attention motion concerns Sanskrit, I will like to read out the notice in Sanskrit," he said. As the members looked askance at each other, Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar said: "He will read it out in Sanskrit but the written text with you is in Hindi and the minister will reply in Hindi, too." But, Singh took the House by surprise when he started replying as he, too, spoke in Sanskrit at length before turning to Hindi. "If I knew you were going to read out the notice in Sanskrit, I would have come better prepared and replied to the whole thing in Sanskrit," he said. The minister, sharing Pandey's demand for better Sanskrit education facilities, however, said the BJP govt would always be committed to promote Sanskrit language, the language of gods and nobody should have any doubt about it. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like BITS Excellence, now online BITS Pilani Digital Apply Now Undo He also gave figures of Sanskrit schools, students and teachers therein, stipend given to students of Sanskrit schools, Patanjali Sanskrit Peeth founded by the state govt for promotion of Sanskrit education, and said the number of Sanskrit schools which were 34 in numbers in 2015 have now gone up to 271, reflecting the concern of the state government to promote Sanskrit education.
Time of India
29-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Cong accuses pvt schools of exploiting parents, students
Bhopal: Congress leader and former LoP in the state assembly Ajay Singh on Tuesday accused private schools in the state of "looting" parents by wilfully raising fees and forcing them to buy books and school uniforms from specific shops. He further charged that the callousness of the state govt towards enforcing rules created to safeguard the interests of students and their parents is evident. He said if someone has a complaint against a school management, they don't know where to go and lodge their complaint. The minister for school education, Udai Pratap Singh, however, said a committee led by the district collector is in place in all districts across the state to keep a check on any malpractices by the schools. Raising the issue through a call attention motion, Ajay Singh said that private schools charge exorbitant fees from students, force them to buy books and uniforms from specific shops of their choice, and avoid prescribing NCERT books, which are cheaper and better in content. He also raised the issue of the excessive burden of school bags on the shoulders of small kids and said if you go to any school, a class one student will be found carrying a bag weighing 4-5 kg, though the law prescribes that it shouldn't be more than 1.6 kg. When the minister referred to steps taken to curb malpractices by what Ajay Singh described as the "education mafia", and said every school with a fee in excess of Rs 25,000 annually has to upload the fee charged from students on its website. A committee headed by the district collector keeps a watch to ensure that students and their parents were not exploited in any manner, Ajay Singh gave an example from Bhopal itself. He highlighted how both the names and mobile numbers of officials designated by the district collector to receive complaints from parents were incorrect. He said there were no names and phone numbers on the websites of schools where complaints could be lodged. Parents are left wondering where they should go and lodge a complaint if they have any grievances against a school management. The minister, however, maintained that action, including hefty penalties, was imposed on private schools for wrongdoing at several places across the state. In some cases, extra fees collected from students were recovered from the schools and returned to parents.
