Odisha govt plans ‘selfie with chief minister’ initiative at higher education institutes
Taking a cue from the University Grants Commission, which asked universities to set up selfie points where students could take their own photographs against the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photo, the Odisha government has come up with a similar selfie initiative on campuses of institutes of higher education.The photograph of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would feature in the background.
The Department of Higher Education has directed all principals and nodal officers to set up a selfie point on college premises and those points should be in prominent places. These selfie points would stay at those places till February next year.
The new selfie initiative has been taken up under Integrated Youth Development Programme (IYDP), which has been rebranded as Nua-O under which a flurry of sports tournaments and cultural competitions for students through December and January is being organised on campuses.
Funds have been transferred to colleges and universities, keeping the students’ strength in mind.
Political observers said the new selfie initiative was absolutely needless like the one being dictated by the Centre and the Naveen Patnaik government wants to generate a buzz using State funding. Selfie points have already come up on colleges and university campuses in the State. Colleges and universities have been asked to involve community and people’s representatives in the drive.
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