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Distributes 31 All Terrain Bikes among students

          GANDERBAL, AUGUST 24:- Secretary School Education Mr. Farooq Ahmad Shah held an interactive session with students of Ganderbal District, here today. MLA Ganderbal, Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar, Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, Dr. Piyush Singla, Director School Education (Kashmir) Dr G N Itoo, Director RMSA, SSP Ganderbal Fayaz Ahmad Lone,  ADDC Ganderbal, N.A Baba, Chief Education officer, Deputy Chief Education Officer, Principals of Higher Secondary Schools, ZEOs, Head Masters, other staff members of Education department and students attended the session.
During the interaction, the Secretary School Education answered scores of questions from students of various schools of district Ganderbal who attended the programme.
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.
          Mr. Shah impressed upon teaching staff of Educational institution and ZEOs to improve results by achieving above 60% marks in annual examination. To achieve the targets, he reviewed threadbare educational activities and advised students to work hard and to co-ordinate with their teachers to achieve better results.

          As many as 31 All Terrain Bikes (ATBs) were distributed among meritorious male students from District Ganderbal.


SRINAGAR, AUGUST 19: Secretary School Education, Farooq Ahmad Shah today directed officials to complete the registration process of untrained teachers by 15 September 2017.
Farooq Shah said this while chairing a meeting to discuss the training of untrained teachers in BEd/ Diploma in Elementary Education in both Government as well as in private schools.
During the meeting, the Secretary said that the diploma in Elementary Education Program is a specifically designed package for in-service untrained teachers aimed to improve quality education through teachers training. He said that it is mandatory to have Diploma in Education for undergraduate teachers and B.Ed for Graduate teachers after new guidelines issued by HRD Ministry.
The program has been developed by the Academic Department, NIOS on the initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India. Pertinently, MHRD has put a new deadline to complete the training of untrained teachers before April 2019.
Moreover, the Secretary asked the untrained teachers to register themselves on the website of National Institute for Open Schooling before the deadline and pay nominal registration fee to avail the training.
Secretary School Education said that training of teachers won't affect the class work of students as training program can be availed through  online as well as offline mode besides SSA has nominated nodal officers to facilitate the training.
During the Meeting, Secretary also directed CEO's and ZEO's to ensure sanitation drives in schools and promote student volunteerism. He also urged that exchange of activities, talent and expertise between private and govt. schools should take place.
The Meeting was attended by the Director School Education Kashmir G.N.Itoo, Director School Education Jammu, Director RMSA, Director SSA, Principal S.I.E's of Jammu, Kashmir, Director Distance Education Kashmir University, Regional Directors of MANUU, IGNOU and Members of Private School Association and other concerned officers.


Reviews functioning of educational institutions
Stresses on augmenting facilities in schools

SRINGAR, AUGUST 9: Secretary, School Education, Farooq Ahmad Shah today chaired a review meeting of education sector with all DCs and CEOs of the J&K State through video conferencing.
Director School Education, Kashmir, Director SSA, JDP were also present in the meeting.
Progress with regard to augmentation of toilet, drinking water and sports facilities in the schools besides status of fencing of schools was reviewed during the meeting.
Secretary, School Education urged DCs to review the functioning of education sector in their respective districts on weekly basis and also conduct inspections in schools on regular basis.  All the DCs and CEOs were requested to prepare proposals under convergence scheme to remove any deficiency with regard to availability of basic facilities in all educational institutions.

Secretary, School Education informed that the practicals in science subjects shall be restored immediately as per past practice and vacancies of teaching staff, particularly in far flung areas will be filled up very shortly. He stressed on 100% completion of syllabus by the teachers and to ensure that attendance of students remains over 90% in order for the students to qualify to sit in the examination.