In order to achieve the twin purpose of augmenting research facilities and inculcating the elements of our cultural heritage into young minds, the state government has made some qualitative changes in the education system during the last four-and-a-half years.
An official spokesman of the government claimed here on Sunday that several new experiments have been made to increase research facilities in the universities. These include setting up of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Research Chair in 15 state universities. Not only this, the Centre of Excellence has also been set up for the promotion of cultural heritage, traditions and folk art of Uttar Pradesh.
According to Higher Education department sources, the state government carried forward research in consonance with the modern and contemporary aspects, dimensions, processes of education. This helped students to be in sync with the current trends and also to determine the direction of future plans.
Also, the Bhaurao Deoras Research Chair, Atal Good Governance Chair and Mahatma Gandhi International Employment Chair were established in Lucknow University. Similarly, Chauri-Chaura Study Centre was set up in Deendayal Upadhyay University, Gorakhpur. Along with this, language centres have been established in districts to promote Indian languages. The government also announced a start-up policy to promote innovations.
The Yogi government not only opened new colleges, but also approved the introduction of new courses in the existing colleges. All the processes for getting affiliation from universities have been made completely online in the academic session 2021-22, an official spokesman claimed.
With this new arrangement, the posting of newly-appointed lecturers in government colleges and aided colleges has been made online. The transfer process of the teachers of the government colleges has also become online, he added.
The state government also met the requirement of teachers and made a large number of recruitments during the last four-and-a-half years. During this period, 1,25,987 primary teachers, 14,436 secondary, 4,988 higher education teachers and 365 teachers in the Technical Education department have been recruited.