{"id":90472,"date":"2020-03-02T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14031"},"modified":"2020-03-02T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:17:20","slug":"initiatives-for-gender-advancement-and-equality-in-academic-and-research-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/initiatives-for-gender-advancement-and-equality-in-academic-and-research-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiatives for Gender Advancement and Equality in Academic and Research Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The President has announced a few initiatives for gender advancement and equality in academic and research institutions on the National Science Day celebrations.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Vigyan Jyoti Scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Nodal ministry:<\/strong>Ministry of Science &amp; Technology(DST).<\/li><li><strong>Coverage:<\/strong>The programme covers girl students from grade 9 to 12.<\/li><li><strong>Aim:<\/strong>To create a level-playing field for the meritorious girls in high school to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) in their higher education and become self reliant.<\/li><li>It also offers exposure for girl students coming from rural backgrounds to help understand how to plan their journey from school to college and thereafter from research to a job of their choice in the field of science.<\/li><li>It also has a financial dimension as girls will be given a modest financial incentive to cover their additional expenses like travel to camps.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About GATI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>GATI Stands for Gender Advancement for Transforming Institutions (GATI).<\/li><li><strong>Aim:<\/strong>To<strong> <\/strong>develop a comprehensive Charter and a framework for assessing Gender Equality in STEM.<\/li><li>It will assess the progress made by participating institutions in gender advancement based on well-defined parameters.<\/li><li>Further,an online portal will also be created to provide information on government schemes, scholarships, fellowships among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The President has announced a few initiatives for gender advancement and equality in academic and research institutions on the National Science Day celebrations. Facts: About Vigyan Jyoti Scheme: Nodal ministry:Ministry of Science &amp; Technology(DST). Coverage:The programme covers girl students from grade 9 to 12. Aim:To create a level-playing field for the meritorious girls in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/initiatives-for-gender-advancement-and-equality-in-academic-and-research-institutions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Initiatives for Gender Advancement and Equality in Academic and Research Institutions<\/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":[1731],"tags":[7637,3504,2694],"class_list":["post-90472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-gati","tag-stem","tag-vigyan-jyoti","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702308030},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90472","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=90472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}