Bikaner: The enrolment of girls in colleges has gone up by 27.5% in the last three years, said higher education minister Kiran Maheshwari at an event in MS College, Bikaner, a release from the department said. Maheshwari said that the state government has been working on it to increase the participation of girls in higher education. The minister also inaugurated works of Rs 1 crore done in the educational institutions in the district. Arjun Ram Meghwal, union minister of state for water resources, said that chief minister Vasundhara Raje has raised the honour of college teachers by changing their designations. Earlier this year, Raje announced the decision that college teachers, too, like their university counterparts, will be known as assistant professors, associate professors and professors.

Source: Hindustan Times November 28, 2017 15:33 UTC