17-06-21 Daily-Himachal Pradesh-HPPSC Current Affairs

After witnessing public outrage over frequent increase in fees and other charges by private schools in Himachal Pradesh, the has finalised the draft for bringing in a legislation to regulate the fee structure in these schools. After Delhi, Himachal will be the second state in North to introduce such a legislation.

A high-level committee, headed by the Education Minister, has already submitted its report to the government, which will now be presented before the state Cabinet for its approval so that a necessary law is enacted in the monsoon session of the state Assembly next month.

The draft of Himachal Pradesh Private Schools (Regulation of Fee and Other Related Matters) Bill, 2021, has already been uploaded on the website of the state Education Department for seeking suggestions and objections from public.

According to the draft Bill, the private schools shall determine their fee structure based on their operational expenses, augmentation of facilities, expansion of Infrastructure and facilities provided to students in order to generate reasonable surplus to be utilised for the development of education.

The draft Bill proposes that private schools shall upload the statements of fees on their websites 60 days prior to the commencement of each academic year

No school shall enhance the fee by more than six per cent in an academic session. Besides, students shall be at Liberty to purchase books, bags and uniform etc from the open market.

The Centre on Monday told theSupreme Courtthat its notification of May 28 delegating powers to collectors of some of districts to grant to members of the minority community from Afghanistan,Pakistanand Bangladesh was not related to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and that such exercise had been done earlier too since 2006.

By the notification, the Centre has delegated power to grant citizenship in such cases to the collectors of 13 more districts Morbi, Rajkot, Patan and Vadodara in Gujarat; Jalore, Udaipur, Pali, Barmer and Sirohi in Rajasthan; Durg and Balodabazar in Chhattisgarh; Faridabad in Haryana; and Jalandhar inPunjaband to the Home secretaries ofHaryanaand Punjab. Now, district collectors of 29 districts and home secretaries of 9 states can exercise such powers.

A Chinese spacecraft “Shenzhou XII” with three crew members docked with China’s new space station module Tianhe 1. This follows the launch of the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft, which delivered critical supplies to the space station.

Highlights:

About six hours after taking off from the Jiuquan launch centre in the Gobi Desert, the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft connected with the Tianhe space station module.

The three-man crew will spend three months on the Tianhe module, which will orbit the Earth at 340km to 380km altitude.

This is the first of two manned space missions scheduled for this year, as part of a intense launch schedule aimed at completing the Chinese space station by 2022.

The three astronauts are the first to live in the main living module, where they will conduct experiments, test equipment, perform maintenance, and prepare the station for the arrival of two laboratory modules next year.

The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the risk that children working in informal processing face as a result of discarded electronic devices, or E-Waste, in its report Children and Digital Dumpsites. It is the world’s first WHO report on electronic waste and child health.

Approximately 12.9 million Women work in the informal waste sector, exposing them to toxic e-waste (such as nickel, lead, and mercury) and putting themselves and their unborn children at risk.

Children are especially vulnerable to the toxic chemicals found in e waste because of their smaller size, less developed organs, and rapid rate of Growth and development.