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� Sensitisation programmes for the principals and school administrators on
heritage craft and graphic design were organised in collaboration with CBSE
at Delhi, Guwahati, Bhopal and Chennai.
� A research study, commissioned by MHRD, was conducted on teaching of
English in government schools at the primary level in India.
� The supplementary reader in Urdu core course (as B-Course) for Classes XI
and XII have been developed. Textbooks and supplementary materials in
content areas as well as position papers developed as a follow-up to NCF-
2005 have been translated into Urdu. Teachers’ manual in Urdu for primary,
upper primary and teachers’ manual in Sanskrit for upper primary stage
have been developed.
� A textbook on Language Education has been prepared for pre-services teacher
education course.
� Twenty month Diploma Course in English and English Language Teaching
for the students from Afghanistan was completed.
� A national seminar on the concept of second language, its perception and
practices in language teaching in India was organised at University of
Burdwan, West Bengal.
� A programme was conducted for strengthening science education at secondary
stage of schooling in states/UTs under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan.
� A document Vision and Multi-layer Strategic Guidelines for the improvement
of Quality of Secondary Education was prepared.
� The second batch of one-year International Diploma Course in Guidance
and Counselling through Distance/Online Mode in collaboration with
Commonwealth of Learning (CoL), Canada began in January 2010.
� Two training course for teachers on peace education have been organised for
in-service teachers at SCERT, Guwahati for NE states and at SCERT, Pune
for western region of India respectively.
� An exemplar material testing Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) at
secondary stage has been developed.
� Capacity building programmes were conducted for SCERT and SIE faculty
in conducting achievement surveys and for state education boards in
educational evaluation.
� National conference of Chairperson of Boards of School Education was
organised on 2-3 August 2010 at NIE, New Delhi with a view to study the
status of implementation of the recommendations of NCF-2005 on
Examination Reforms.
� 1019 NTSE scholarships were provided to Class VIII students out of which
775 were given to students of general category, 162 to students of SC category
and 82 to students of ST category. 28 scholarships are distributed to the
physically challenged students across General, SC and ST category students.
� Ten nurturance programmes for the NTS awardees were conducted at RIE,
Bhubaneswar from 31 January to 4 February 2011, at Birla Institute of
Technology, Ranchi from 1 to 5 February 2011, at RIE, Ajmer from 27 to 31
January 2011 and 1 to 5 February 2011, at National Institute of Technology,
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