Orders
de-clubbing of educational institutions for better results
JAMMU, MAY 21: Minister for
School Education, Hajj and Auqaf and Tribal Affairs, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali,
today ordered de-clubbing of government educational institutions that had
earlier been clubbed due to less enrolment.
“Education, being
an effective instrument for creating a progressed and prosperous society, is
receiving special focus of the present dispensation and all the schools are
being equipped with modern infrastructure and highly qualified staff to make
these institutions centres of excellence”, the Minister maintained.
The Education
Minister said this while chairing a review meeting of education sector of
Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts.
Minister for
Health and Medical Education Devinder Kumar Manyal, Minister of State for
Education, Shakti Raj Parihar, Legislators Priya Sethi, Devender Singh Rana,
Choudhary Sukhnandan Kumar, Rajesh Gupta, Rajeev Sharma, Jeevan Lal, Dr Krishan
Lal, Kuldeep Raj, Charanjit Singh Khalsa, Vikram Randhawa were also present in
the meeting.
The meeting
reviewed functioning of constituency wise institutions, student enrollment,
literacy rate, staff availability including teachers, principals, lecturers,
ZEOs, Headmasters and others, overall result for the year 2017-18, financial
and physical status of ongoing construction works, proposed capital expenditure
budget for the current session, approved works under TAMEIR plan, mid day meal
scheme, model schools, proposal for up-gradation of schools, Financial and
physical progress of construction works under Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya
Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and others.
The Minister was
informed that a total of 91415 students are enrolled in government schools in
Jammu districts with zero percent dropout rate as per UDISE 2017-18. The total
literacy rate of Jammu district is 83.45 %.
The Minister
directed the Director School Education to expedite the recruitment process for
the post of Class 4th in a time bound manner.
Taking strong
cognizance of poor performance of some of the schools, the Minister instructed
the Director to take action against the erring officers and teachers who have
registered zero percent result. He also asked for ascertaining the reasons
behind poor academic performance of students so that requisite measures are
initiated to improve the results.
The Minister said
that elementary education is of immense importance for laying a strong
foundation for students' future which is being taken care of by the present
government. “Qualitative improvement in the education system in government
schools and filling up of infrastructural gap is the top priority of the
government”, he asserted.
The Minister said
that the government and people have high expectations from the teaching community
as they are the real architects of future. He asked the teaching fraternity to
engage children in objective learning through latest teaching-learning methods
to improve quality of primary education in the government schools.
The Minister
stressed upon the need of effective working of Village Education Committees as
these play significant role in micro-planning and prepare the school
development plan including requirement of buildings, toilets and drinking water
facilities,” he said.
All the legislators
highlighted various issues of their respective constituencies which inter alia
include formulation of long term policy to improve the overall quality of
education in the state to further perk up the literacy rate, rationalization of
staff to maintain the student- teacher ratio, infrastructural up-gradation,
sanitation, incentivizing rural postings, appointment of subject specific
teachers, capacity building programmes for teachers, posting of Zonal Education
Officers (ZEOs) and Chief Education Officers (CEOs). The government has
approved engagement of 20,000 watch-and-wards in schools for security and
safety of students and educational infrastructure as well” he asserted.
The Minister
asked for making Urdu language, being official dialect in the state, as
compulsory subject in government as well as private institutions upto primary
level. He called for exempting teachers from all non-academic duties in the
larger interest of the student community.
The
Minister directed the concerned officers to provide desks to Government Higher
School Ghagwal and fill the vacant post of ZEO at Khour. He also directed to
expedite the process of construction of Auditorium at Akhnoor.
The Minister
directed the concerned authorities to vacate all the unsafe school buildings so
as to avoid any untoward incident on this account.
The Minister
exhorted upon the teaching fraternity to uphold the dignity and sanctity of
this noble profession by discharging their duties with utmost sincerity and
devotion as the onus of shaping the nation’s future lies on them.
The Minister
welcomed the suggestions of the Legislators and assured them that the same
would be incorporated to streamline the functioning of the department.
The Minister
urged upon the legislators to keep a strict monitoring over the functioning of
schools in their respective areas to ensure that these institutions of
education served their best. He also asked them to pay frequent visits to these
schools so that they could project the needs and requirement there like infrastructure,
staff, teachers and others.
Minister
of State for School Education Shakti Raj Parihar, said that education
department have a great role in shaping the future of students who are builders
of a strong Nation. With the introduction of various reformative
initiatives in education, the sector has shown notable improvement in its
functioning.
Among others,
Secretary School Education Farooq Ahmad Shah, Deputy Commissioner Kathua, Rohit
Khajuria, Additional Secretary, Joint Director Planning, State Project
Directors SSA and RMSA, Director School Education, ADC Samba, ADDC Jammu,
Personal Officer Directorate School Education Jammu, Chief Education Officers,
Zonal Education Officers, Principals of DIET and other senior
officers of the department attended the meeting.
