To ensure zero dropouts in schools, 100% enrollment and also to connect out of school children to schools, representatives of voluntary partner organizations operating in the State will now provide support to the School Education and Literacy Department on a non-financial basis. In this regard, the State Education Project Council organised a special joint training workshop for the representatives of 24 voluntary supporting organisations and district division in-charges on Tuesday.
Addressing the representatives present in this workshop, State Education Project Director Aditya Ranjan said that along with the School Education and Literacy Department, voluntary supporting organisations also have an important contribution in ensuring a better education system and institutions should cooperate in making the quality of education excellent in schools and connect children to the mainstream of education.
Ranjan further directed that in order to achieve the target of 100 percent enrollment, 100 percent transition and zero dropouts in schools, the institutions should target at least 10 schools every month. The representatives have also been directed to monitor the school score card of whichever school they visit.
Ranjan also said that everyone's role in the voluntary supporting organisations is unique, and every institution is performing excellently in some field or the other. Ranjan directed the State Program Officer and State Program personnel to provide three days of special training to the representatives of the selected voluntary supporting organisations in the first week of October, so that they can complete the tasks with ease and efficiency. The representatives of these institutions will be responsible for the successful implementation of the said projects in 900 schools of the State.
Like last year, this year also a special training program called 'Setu Guide' will be organised for the selected out of school children. Detailed guidelines regarding the implementation of the Setu Guide program have been sent to all the District Education Officers and District Education Superintendents. Under this program, Setu Guide centers will be established where volunteers will be selected through the School Management Committees of the schools associated with the Setu Guide centers and the voluntary organizations identified to work voluntarily from the State Office.
Under this program, first of all, out of school children will be enrolled in the nearest government school. Out of school children will be determined on the basis of Shishu Panji survey. Setu Guide Centers will be established in the schools in those catchment areas where there are out of school children and these centers will be tagged with the respective schools. If there are five or less out of school or dropout children in the catchment area of a school, then a special training class will be conducted for them by a teacher of the same school every day in the last bell or PT period.
