Ahmedabad: The Gujarat education department has reserved 43,896 seats in private schools for Class 1 admissions under the Right to Education Act 2009 for the academic year 2024-25. The registration period starts on March 14, with the deadline on March 26. This is a decrease from the 82,853 seats reserved last year, attributed to an age criteria adjustment requiring students to be 6 years old instead of 5. Application scrutiny begins on March 28, with a correction window from April 1 to Apr...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court on Monday issued a notice to the state government regarding petitions challenging its decision to enforce a mandatory six-year age rule for admission to Class 1 from the upcoming academic year. A group of 55 parents from Vadodara reached HC seeking either a postponement of the rule's implementation or an extension of the age limit until December 31, 2023. The petitioners claim that their children fall short of the age limit by one day to six months on June ...Read More

Gandhinagar: The state education minister, Kuber Dindor, announced the introduction of balvatikas for three different age groups in schools from the next academic year, beginning on June 1. The three age groups are 3-4, 4-5, and 5-year-olds who have not yet completed six years as of June 1. The balvatikas for the first two age groups will be set up in aanganwadis, while the third will be in primary schools. The state government's decision is intended to ensure that students who do not meet...Read More

Amdavad: The Gujarat high court has once again emphasized the need for the state government to introduce measures for penalizing schools that do not teach the Gujarati language in primary classes. The court has suggested enacting a law similar to what other states have done for compulsory teaching of local languages in schools. The court made these comments during a hearing of a PIL filed by Matrubhasha Abhiyan, which demands strict implementation of a 2018 circular making it mandatory to tea...Read More

Gandhinagar: More than 5.72 lakh children get admission in Class 1 during the three-day-long Shala Praveshotsav, an annual drive to enrol students in government-run schools in Gujarat, State Education minister Jitu Vaghani Informed on Tuesday. Bhupendra Patel, CM of the state of Gujarat, launched the 17th edition of Shala Praveshotsav at a primary school in Vadgam of the Banaskantha district on June 23. "Over 5.72 lakh children have been enrolled in Class 1 across the state, including 2.80...Read More

Gandhinagar: Total of 32013 government schools of the state will celebrate Praveshotsav from 23rd to 25th June 2022. It will be the 17th series of Shala Praveshotsav this year. The IAS, IPS, IFS, senior officials, class-1 officers, incumbents, MLAs, MPs and state government ministers will join the Praveshotsav, like every year. This year, 84 IAS, 24 IPS, 15 IFS and 356 class-1 officers will join. CM Bhupendra Patel will inaugurate the state-wide praveshotsav from Memadpura primary school...Read More