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Jalandhar from 10 to 14 January 2011, at Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai from 15 to 19 February 2011, at RIE, Mysore from 4 to 8
April 2011, at NIT, Surathkal from 28 February to 4 March 2011 and RIE,
Bhopal from 21 to 25 February 2011.
� The Chacha Nehru scholarship for artistic and innovative excellence was
conducted in collaboration with National Bal Bhawan to identify the talent
from Classes IX to XII students for providing scholarship in the areas of
creative performance, creative arts, creative scientific innovations and creative
writing. Fifty children were given Bal Shree honour by President of India.
150 scholarships were provided to the students who participated in the
national level camp organised by National Bal Bhawan.
� The MHRD accorded approval to the proposal of 8th AISES and the survey
has been launched with reference date as 30 September 2009 Under this
project the completed activities are: School Directories at blocks, towns and
wards in Class one towns were updated, State Level Training of District Survey
Officers and Statistical Assistants in the states of Gujarat, Orissa, Manipur,
Nagaland National Capital Territory of Delhi, and Union Territory of Daman
and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli have been organised by NCERT.
Majority of the states /UTs have already completed the exercise of data
collection. The programme for the MIS coordinators and Data Entry Operators
for the Flash Sheets was organised in online mode from 4 to 6 January 2011.
� As part of NCERT’s Golden Jubilee year a National Seminar on
Universalisation of Secondary Education: Issues, Challenges and Policy
Perspectives in Rural Context was held from 30 to 31 March 2011. The seminar
provided a platform to educational planners, administrators, researchers and
policy makers to share experiences on secondary education in rural areas.
� The English and Urdu version of the part-I of the textbooks on Computers
and Communication Technology Class XI and Part-II of the English version
of the textbook for Class XI have been prepared.
� A training programme in the area of educational planning, management and
evaluation for the DIET faculty, who were working in the Planning and
Management Branch of the DIETs, was conducted for the Southern states/
UTs of India at School of Pedagogical Sciences, Kannur University, Kannur,
Kerala, from 6 to 10 December 2010.
� A Joint Curriculum Workshop of ICSA, Iran and NCERT, India on National
Curriculum of India and Iran was organised at NIE, New Delhi from 2 to 4
February 2011.
� A meeting of professional library staff of NIE, New Delhi and its Constituent
libraries was held at RIE, Ajmer on 5-6 October 2010 to share the ideas,
expertise, innovations, new techniques and methods used in the different
constituents of NCERT.
� The NCERT continued with the publication of school textbooks, workbooks,
supplementary readers, teacher guides, laboratory manuals, source books
on assessment, exemplar problems in Mathematics, research reports/
monographs and educational journals viz., Journal of Indian Education,
School Science, The Primary Teacher, Prathmik Shikshak, Bharatiya Adhunik
Shiksha, Indian Educational Review and Journal of Value Education.
Annual Report 2010-11
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