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The Haryana chief minister (CM), Manohar Lal Khattar has directed the officers concerned to develop such a system under which a single educational institute should be set up for imparting education from K G to Postgraduate levels. He directed the officers to identify two such universities wherein such systems can be implemented initially.

The CM gave these directions while presiding over a review meeting with the State Educational Research and Training Council (SCERT), District Institute for Education and Training (DIET) and Block Institute of Teacher Education (BITE) held here today. Haryana Education Minister, Kanwar Pal was also present in the meeting.

The CM directed the officers to also chalk out a plan for the accreditation of private institutions and this should be continuously monitored so that they can meet the required standards.

Former Gujarat Chief Minister and Member of Parliament from Varanasi Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated the BJP on its stupendous performance in the Gujarat municipal elections.

In a series of tweets, he said, “Thank you Gujarat! Results of municipal elections across the state clearly show the unwavering faith people have towards politics of development and good governance. Grateful to the people of the state for trusting BJP yet again. Always an honour to serve Gujarat.

“I would like to appreciate the efforts of each and every Karyakarta of @BJP4Gujarat, who reached out to people and elaborated on our Party’s vision for the state. The Gujarat government’s pro-people policies have positively impacted the entire state.

Followed by a clash between the villagers and supporters of union minister Sanjeev Baliyan during his visit to village Soram on Monday, a complaint has been lodged by a villager at Shahpur police station of district Muzaffarnagar against them.

Reportedly, a few villagers were injured in the clash between the villagers and supporters of Sanjeev Baliyan. The enraged villagers reached Shahpur police station of Muzzaffarnagar district to lodge an FIR against the minister and his supporters.

Hundreds of villagers held a panchayat and gathered at the Shahpur police station. After several hours their complaint was accepted by the cops though the FIR is yet to be registered.

Girish Gautam, a four-term BJP MLA from Deotalab in Rewa district, filed his nomination for the post of speaker of the Madhya Pradesh assembly on February 21. With his election to the post, the BJP has attempted to address the issue of underrepresentation of the Vindhya region in the state government.

The BJP had done exceptionally well in the Vindhya region in the 2018 assembly election. It was the only area where the Congress had not won a majority of the seats. The BJP's performance there singlehandedly helped the party prevent the Congress from getting a simple majority in the assembly, which eventually became the prime reason for the Congress government's collapse in March 2020.

At the moment, three members in the 31-member Shivraj Singh Chouhan cabinet are from the Vindhya region. There was a lot of pressure within the BJP to give more posts in the cabinet to leaders from this region. There are other takeaways from the election of Gautam as speaker too. It is after almost 18 years that the post of speaker has returned to the Vindhya region. Sriniwas Tiwari, a towering Brahmin leader from Vindhya region, had served as speaker from 1993 to 2003, corresponding with Digvijaya Singh's tenure as chief minister.