{"id":3082,"date":"2018-10-25T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:43:58","slug":"bengal-government-turns-down-ugc-directive-asking-birth-anniversary-of-sardar-vallabhbhai-patel-to-be-celebrated-as-rashtriya-ekta-diwas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bengal-government-turns-down-ugc-directive-asking-birth-anniversary-of-sardar-vallabhbhai-patel-to-be-celebrated-as-rashtriya-ekta-diwas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal government turns down UGC directive asking birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to be celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has refused to observe <em>Rashtriya Ekta Diwas<\/em> on October 31, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in colleges and universities, alleging that the Central government is trying to politicise the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>This came in response to the recently issued circular by the University Grants Commission (UGC) asking all teachers and students to observe the <em>Rashtriya Ekta Diwas <\/em>in colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>State education minister Partha Chatterjee, has told a television channel that the UGC was trying to impose its decision on the state government without consulting them of any such plan earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has refused to observe Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on October 31, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}