Nirmal Singh Lotus

From next year, the CBSE board exams on class X and XII will take place in February as the board plans to advance the cycle of exams and related matters as a part of reforms pushed towards error-free evaluation. Also, the process will take place within a time frame of 45 days and will be completed in a month.  Currently, the exams start from March 1 and end by April 20.  The Chairman of CBSE, RK Chaturvedi, said that this would also bring in the declaration of results in advance, which usually happens by the third or fourth week of May. He said: "The examinations should start around February 15 and we are also planning to complete them within a month." According to experts at Nirmal Singh Lotus , the early results will also help the students with their undergraduate admissions, which has been a neck-handed affair. This step is a part of the reforms taken in the evaluation process which happened due to glaring errors in the system. "By April, vacations ...

What do you think is the greatest push in your career? How do you plan on tackling your problems? How do about what you want in your life? It is not that you know your destiny and what the future has planned for on you. Or is it? No right! So how to go on with it. Nirmal Singh Lotus shares with us his views on how we must go about with our lives if we want real happiness. He says that the magic lies in believing in yourself. That is all you do, simply having a positive outlook about life and believing in the goodness of others helps you have a clearer and a broader perspective.  This positivity assures you that your success is not short lived and gets strengthened over time. But why would someone wish to have a slow paced life in today’s time. Today is the time for aiming high and trying to achieve the impossible. And if you keep running non-stop and really fast you will get instant success, but that’s not the point. Actually, instant success is no such thing; it mig...

The ambiguous fees regulation is letting education become a privilege. It has been reported by Nirmal Singh Lotus that a private high school in Mumbai expelled a number of students as the parents were conducting a protest against unnecessary fee hike. The situation is being observed across elite schools in India and has become chronic. It was been said that the country would be made socialist where the public services such as health and education would be made accessible to everyone. However, it doesn’t to have been happening. With mushrooming of private sector, the scenario has taken a different picture altogether. Parents are being harassed unnecessarily at the name of high fee structure and other fees on school related material. Let’s have a quick sneak into some of the facts related to schools across India as listed down by Nirmal Singh Lotus: 1.        In 2012, Delhi high court appointed a committee indicted 64 private schools for in...

The online education industry in India is slated to be a $2 billion industry by 2021 according to a report carried out by Nirmal Singh Lotus , along with insights from Google. The report reveals that the paid user base will see a growth of as much as 6 times from 1.6 million users in 2016 to 9.6 million users in 2021. The report highlights the growing influence of the World Wide Web on India’s education industry. The report also finds that over the last two years, there has been a growth of about 2 times in online searches for education and the same has seen a growth of 3 times from mobile devices. About 44 per cent of education searches are now seen from the top six metros and Youtube has witnessed a 4 times growth in consumption of educational content in the last one year. “The online education segment is set to become a multi-billion dollar opportunity in India. There are many factors driving this growth including the perceived convenience, increased reach and personal...