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Hello Jammu News at 8:07:00 PM 0

Pioneering initiatives under implementation to transform education sector: Farooq Shah


JAMMU, NOVEMBER 20- Minister for Education Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari has welcomed state’s 2nd rank in education sector in India Today’s annual ‘State of the States’ ranking.
The state was judged on various parameters including average student to class room ratio, transition rate from primary to upper primary, number of girls enrolled in primary, pupil teacher ratio, dropout rate, number of schools and colleges per lakh population. 
The Minister welcoming the ranking given to the state said that this result has been achieved due to focused attention by the government to education sector both in qualitative and in quantitative terms.
The annual exercise takes into account objective data sourced from government and other authentic sources to gauge the performance of Indian states across various parameters in key sectors.
Secretary, School Education Farooq A Shah while commenting on the achievement said that this ranking marks a significant improvement for the state but a lot needs to be done still to ensure best possible education at all levels for the state youth.
Listing various initiatives under implementation in the education sector, the Secretary said that concept of clusterization was introduced in under which clusters of all the schools were made in the catchment area of a Higher Secondary School and this Cluster was made as an Academic and Planning unit. This idea helped to foster healthy competition between clusters for resource mobilization and performance.
Speaking about another important initiative called ‘CM Super 50, a programme to provide free coaching and guidance for entrance exams including IIT/JEE/AIPMT/CET, the Secretary said that at least 60 students from these super-50 centres have come out with flying colours for IIT/JEE, NIT Srinagar and AMU medical Entrance Examinations.
Various other steps including winter tutorials, winter camps, strengthening Pre-primary sections of the schools across the division (ECCE Programme), minimum learning levels & android application, change in examination pattern, school herbal gardens, Xuanzang international internship in education, and GO- NGO co-ordination have also contributed a lot in improving this vital sector.
He further said that various partner organizations mainly PRATHAM, PACE academy, Simple Education Foundation (SEF), JKASW, UNICEF, Chinar International, TATA ClassEdge and others are also been working with the education department to bring positive and visible changes on ground and this process has proved to be a good exercise.

Meanwhile, Director School Education Kashmir Dr G N Itoo and Director School Education Jammu, Ravinder Singh have also welcomed the ranking.
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Hello Jammu News at 6:51:00 PM 0


SRINAGAR: SEPTEMBER 18: Secretary School Education, Farooq Ahmad Shah along with Director School Education Kashmir, Dr. GN Itoo today visited many Government and private institutions of District Srinagar to check the attendance and the academic functioning of the schools.
During the inspection of private school Presentation Convent School, the visiting authorities instructed the school management to ensure proper facilities including clean wash rooms are provided to the students.
Inspecting Higher Secondary School Jawahar Nagar and Middle School Jawahar Nagar, the concerned were directed to take strict action against the staff found absent from their duties without any authorization. The instruction heads were also asked to adhere to the guidelines issued by the department regarding punctuality of the staff and attendance of students.
The schools authorities were directed to register the attendance of staff on bio-metric machines, besides maintaining usual manual attendance registers.
Secretary, School Education also directed to ensure the syllabus is completed on time. It was reiterated that only those students shall be allowed to sit in the annual examination who have obtained requisite attendance of 90%, as the examination forms of students falling short of attendance shall not be entertained from the Board of School Education. The parents were appealed to ensure the presence of their wards in schools till preparation break starts.


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Hello Jammu News at 7:33:00 PM 0
400 ATBs distributed among meritorious students

          PULWAMA, SEPTEMBER 13: Secretary School Education, Farooq Ahmad Shah today convened a meeting of Education Department Pulwama to review the progress on various projects under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA).
         District Development Commissioner Pulwama, G. M. Dar, Director School Education Kashmir, Project Director, SSA, Director RMSA, CEO, ZEOs, Principals and Head Masters of all the educational institutes of the district and other concerned attended the meeting.
         CEO Pulwama informed the meeting about the functioning of the education sector in the district. He said that there are 70 high schools, 30 higher secondary schools, 4 colleges and 01 DIET centre. It was given out that out of 328 approved buildings for Primary Schools under SSA around 322 have been completed.
          Regarding middle schools out of 73 buildings, as many as 72 have been completed. Under RMSA out of total 18 approved buildings, 10 have been completed while 4 are under construction.
          The Secretary School Education said that government has prioritized education as prime focus with the launch of numerous reformative measures in this regard. “A discernible transformation is being witnessed in all parameters of education with a notable development in infrastructural edifice and related facilities in educational institutions of the state,” he said. He emphasized upon the need of involving all stakeholders including Village Level Education Committees, parents, teachers and officers of civil administration in further streamlining of this vital sector on which the onus of building a strong and developed nation lies.
          Farooq Shah also stressed on time bound completion of the vital projects and asked the officers to work with added zeal and in coordination to change the educational scenario of the State.
          Speaking on the occasion, Director School Education exhorted upon the concerned officers to ensure that all these centres of learning are equipped with enhanced basic facilities. He stressed upon the importance of regular and effective monitoring of functioning of the schools especially in rural and hilly areas for better outcome and asked the CEO and ZEOS to regularly monitor their functioning. 
         The DDC Pulwama said that the present dispensation is making concerted efforts to perk up the education system in the State. He stressed on the teaching community to redouble their efforts so as to help produce students who become assets for the State. He said the education sector is the most important and priority sector for developing and grooming the future generation of the State. He also asked the officers to ensure judicious and optimal use of the available resources in the said sector to provide the proper feasible academic atmosphere to the students.
          Later, Secretary School Education held an interactive session with students during RU-BA-RU event. The students put forward their questions regarding issues like shortage of teachers; need to introduce more subjects, improvement in infrastructure, and establishment of counselling cells.
          He impressed upon teaching staff of educational institutions and ZEOs to improve results in annual examination. He also announced that dedicated teachers will be awarded cash prize along with citations.
          He also distributed prizes among the students who had participated in science quiz competition organized by the Department.

          Earlier, Director School Education and DDC Pulwama flagged off a rally of students who were given All Terrain Bikes (ATBs for meritorious boys of lower economic strata on the pattern of Scooty Scheme for the girl students. Around 400 ATBs were distributed among the meritorious students.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:57:00 PM 0
GHSS Kothibagh celebrates 51st  International Literacy Day
   
       SRINAGAR SEPTEMBER 8: Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Kothibagh Srinagar today celebrated 51st  International Literacy Day (ILD) as Saakshar Bharat Mission (SBM) with special emphasis on "Adult Education in J&K" in collaboration with State Literacy Mission Authority (SLMA) SBM, J&K at Auditorium of the school.
            The Programme was formulated with the objective of achieving 80 percent literacy level at national level, by focusing on adult women literacy seeking to reduce the gap between male and female literacy to not more than 10 percentage points. It has four broader objective, namely imparting functional literacy and numeracy to non-literates, acquiring equivalency to formal educational system, imparting relevant skill development programme and promote a leaning society by providing opportunities for continuing education.    
            On the occasion, Secretary School Education, Farooq Ahmed Shah was the Chief Guest and said that the Government has taken all adequate steps to upgrade the education standard to increase literacy rate in the State. He said that the present literacy ratio in the State is 67 percent and our mission is to achieve 100 percent literacy in Jammu & Kashmir.
            He said that the our aim to further promote and strengthen adult education, especially of women by extending educational options to those adult who have been last the opportunity of access to formal education and crossed the standard age for receiving such education, now feel a need for learning of any type including, literacy, basic education  (equivalency to formal education, vocational education( skill Development), physical and emotional development, practical arts applied  science, sports and recreation.
            Secretary lauded the efforts of the Principal of the School and Organizer of the programme to organize such function for the upliftment of the society by providing quality education and asked to organized such more and more functions and seminars to promote education sector as per need of the present time. 
            Mr Farooq Shah also distributed the trophies and mementos among the students who have participated and bring excellent job in the sports sector including cricket, volleyball, badminton etc. He said that need of the hours to take serious efforts to achieve the goal to boost social and economic development in the State.      

            Director School Education, Kashmir Dr G N Itoo, Joint Director (SLMA) T Dolkar, State Coordinators, (SLMA) Syed Imran, Manmeet Bali, I/C SBM Srinagar, Nazir A Sofi, Principal, GGHSS, Kothibagh, Romina Qazi, Lectures, Teachers, a larger numbers of students and spectators were also present in the function.    
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Hello Jammu News at 7:04:00 PM 0

Launches campaign to boost tourism influx
SRINAGAR, JUNE 16: The Secretary Tourism and Floriculture Farooq Ahmad Shah today launched campaign to boost tourist influx, particularly MICE, Golf and religious tourism across the state.
Speaking on the occasion, the Secretary said that to increase tourist influx to the state Travel trade is in process to organize press interaction and specific meetings with the Travel trade of Delhi and Mumbai Maharashtra.
The secretary said that customized packages will be made for promoting MICE and Golf tourism and also the spiritual tourism of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that the Department is taking certain concrete measure to attract people of different faiths as the state has huge potential of Sufi circuits, temples, shrines, Gurdawaras and pilgrimage venues like Mata Vaishno Devi and Amarnath Yatra.
The Secretary also urged media fraternity to stop unnecessary projecting Jammu and Kashmir in negative way. He said that Golfing events will soon held in Srinagar and Pahalgam.
The meeting was also attended by Manager Marketing SKICC and officials of J&K Tourism Department and JKTDC.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:14:00 PM 0

JAMMU, MAY 20: Secretary Tourism and Floriculture, Farooq A Shah, Saturday convened a meeting of Tourism and Development authorities of Bhaderwah, Patnitop and Rajouri to review the status of ongoing works in the areas under the sectors.
          The Secretary also reviewed the progress of work on the Tawi Golf Course and the Tourist Reception Centre at Dera Baba Bandha in Reasi besides renovation of Bhimgarh Fort in Reasi.
Emphasizing the significance of Jammu division for tourism in the State, the Secretary instructed the official to ensure all its regions are kept clean without fail. He also called on the officers to provide all sorts of facilitation services to tourists visiting Jammu, Bhaderwah, Rajouri, Patnitop and other places in the region.
Speaking on the occasion, the Secretary reiterated the government’s commitment to the late Mufti’s vision of making the State amongst the best tourism destination in the world.

During the meeting, the Principal of the Food Craft Institute, Jammu, who was also present in the meeting, was asked to start fresh skill development courses in different trades for grooming the youth in job-oriented fields.
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