Tag: Manish Sisodia

New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said the government will start five “Schools of Excellence” next year in order to provide better quality education. “These schools will impart education in English language. The admission process for nursery to Class V and, Class IX and XI will be conducted under the neighbourhood […]

New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday chaired a meeting of the Assessment Unit of the Examination Branch of the Directorate of Education and said the wing may take the shape of a centre of academic reforms for the country. “The Assessment Unit is envisioned as a Research & Development team of the […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Bill allowing 15,000 ‘guest’ school teachers to be made permanent. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the Bill will be passed during the special session to be held on October 4. Of the total 17,000 guest teachers in Delhi government schools, 15,000 will be benefited. However, […]

New Delhi: The Delhi government will open centres to teach students who have failed twice or more in Class X, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said here on Tuesday. Addressing the media, Sisodia said this would make sure that these students would not be out of school and have a future. The Deputy Chief Minister said […]

New Delhi: Government schools in Delhi have the lowest pass percentage among all categories of schools affiliated to the CBSE, even as Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia lauded the state-run institutes for an improved performance in the board’s Class 10 exam from that in pre-boards. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)declared the Class 10 […]

Delhi chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal is likely to appoint his trusted colleague Manish Sisodia as the deputy CM, sources said Thursday, adding that cabinet ministers in AAP's Delhi government are almost decided

A day after the AAP's landslide victory in the Delhi assembly elections, party chief Arvind Kejriwal and senior leader Manish Sisodia today met President Pranab Mukherjee, who gifted them two books -- the Constitution and his own book "Thoughts and Reflections"

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday accused the BJP of indulging in horse-trading and said that it offered Rs 10 crore each to at least seven of its MLAs for joining the saffron party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Speaking to the media, AAP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia […]

New Delhi: “Give us Delhi Police and law-and-order responsibility for two days and we will hang Nirbhaya convicts,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Thursday, hitting back at the BJP for holding the AAP government responsible for the “delay” in the hanging. Sisodia’s retort came hours after Union minister Prakash Javadekar blamed the AAP […]

New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ today asked all States to start evaluation of Board examination papers. Responding to a question of conducting the remaining CBSE exams, Pokhriyal told parents in an interaction on Monday that the pending exams will be conducted at the first possible opportunity. Also Read: CBSE To […]

New Delhi: High drama was witnessed outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Tuesday after his deputy Manish Sisodia went there and accused the Delhi Police of putting the former under house arrest. Police denied Kejriwal was under any kind of restraint. Sisodia along with hundreds of party workers assembled near the CM’s residence […]

New Delhi: The Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, announced on Monday that the legal age to consume alcohol in the national capital will be soon reduced from 25 to 21 in Delhi, the same as in Noida and Gurugram. After the suggestions of the group of ministers on the new excise policy was […]