Department of School Education and Literacy, Government of Jharkhand, Secretary- in- charge Umashankar Singh has issued directions to create an Education Review Center under Jharkhand Education Project Council. The official issued these directions during the meeting of the State Steering Committee for National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCFSE) held at Jharkhand Council of Educational Research and Training.
Singh further emphasised on the creation of manpower for this and directed to complete the work as soon as possible. Through the Education Review Center, various indicators of schools and education of the State will be monitored and in case the work is not satisfactory as per the indicators, a weekly report will be prepared for action. After reviewing the weekly report, an action report will also be prepared.
During the meeting, Singh gave the target to State Education Project Director Aditya Ranjan and other state level officials to complete the process of appointments, formation of IT cell or documentation of best practices in one and a half to three months. Singh further ordered to give priority to the work of curriculum design and research in JCERT and also directed to conduct the work of graphics, designing, printing etc. from JEPC.
The Education Secretary said that JCERT should work only by focusing on research and curriculum. From book printing to its designing and graphics, 4 teams will be formed under Jharkhand Education Project Council, which will complete the work of book quality, content in it, graphic designing and photography.
Singh also directed to build a big auditorium with a capacity of 500 people in the Jharkhand Educational Research and Training Council campus and said that at present only Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has a big hall and in such a situation teachers from all over the State come to JCERT as guests for training as the hall built at present does not have sufficient capacity. The official further directed to send a proposal for the hall and auditorium and also instructed to prepare an SOP for the annual magazine Pankh of JEPC.
Singh also emphasised on the documentation of the best practices happening under the education department and ordered to start work on it soon.
Singh also included the 'School Report Card' issued for self-evaluation under Project Impact in the grading process of schools. The school which performs better in the school report card of 1500 marks will get a Gold Grade Certificate. Grading of schools will be done on two bases- first gold and second silver. Gold category schools will be provided additional facilities on priority basis and additional incentives for excellent efforts in education.
Jharkhand Education Project Council teams will continuously conduct field monitoring to review the work being done in schools under "Prayas-cum-Project IMPACT-NEP". The first report card of 35000 schools of the State will be issued between August 15 and August 30. Thereafter, the process of school grading will be started by examining the evaluation by the schools. Summative assessment of 80 Mukhyamantri Utkrishta Vidyalayas or 325 Block level Adarsh Vidyalayas of the State will also be done by JAC twice a year.
