{"id":85361,"date":"2019-10-15T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2019-10-15T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:21:04","slug":"vigyan-jyoti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vigyan-jyoti\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigyan Jyoti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Government is planning a programme called Vigyan Jyoti to help girl students inculcate interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The programme is to be launched in the backdrop of low percentage of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM).<\/li><li>The data shows that females comprised 24% of the total pass-out students in STEM subjects in engineering, 22% at the postgraduate level, 28% at M Phil and 35% at the PhD level.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Vigyan Jyoti:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The programme aims to tap 100 girl students in 550 districts from 2020-2025.<\/li><li>The programme comes under the aegis of the Department of Science &amp; Technology(DST).<\/li><li>The programme will cover girl students from grade 9 to 12.It will choose students based on their percentile.<\/li><li>The programme will help girl students inculcate interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM).<\/li><li>The programme also has financial dimension.The girls will be given a modest financial incentive to cover their additional expenses like travel to camps.<\/li><li>It will also include holding science camps for the girl students in nearby IITs, NITs and national laboratories.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Government is planning a programme called Vigyan Jyoti to help girl students inculcate interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Facts: Background: The programme is to be launched in the backdrop of low percentage of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM). The data shows that females comprised 24% of the total pass-out students&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vigyan-jyoti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vigyan Jyoti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2694],"class_list":["post-85361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-vigyan-jyoti","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704855400},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}