A Mukhyamantri Shala Jyoti Yojana will be launched for electricity arrangements in the Government schools. The total number of 1.02 lakh schools in the State will be electrified in the next three years. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan gave these directives while reviewing activities of the School Education Department here on Monday. School Education Minister Paras Jain, Minister of State for School Education Deepak Joshi and Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa also attended the meeting.
The Chief Minister directed that provision of boundary wall construction should be made in new school buildings. Besides, schools not having boundary walls should also be constructed. The motivators appointed during School Chalen Ham Abhiyan should be kept active and those with outstanding performance should be felicitated. Every school should celebrate annual function and Bal Sabha every Saturday. Students should be provided scholarship within time-limit. From next sessions, students should be provided free of cost cycles instead of amount to purchase cycles.
Action plan should be chalked out for effective teaching in Sanskrit schools. Anti-tobacco campaign should be conducted in every school. Infrastructure should be improved and seats increased in Schools for Excellence. Ensure timely promotion and Kramonnati of teachers. Integrated School Scheme should be introduced as pilot project in every development block to increase the quality of education. He lauded the department for sending text-books to all schools within time-limit.
The meeting informed that one lakh motivators have joined School Chalen Ham Abhiyan. Teachers of primary and middle schools have been trained. Gyan Pitara website has been developed as Knowledge of Portal, which would be launched soon. The department has distributed scholarships to 83.50 lakh students this year. laptops have been provided to 1.72 lakh meritorious students. Two trades of vocational education have been introduced in 50 schools. Board of Secondary Education is making available all facilities online. The department has disposed of 97 per cent applications received under CM Helpline. Chairman of Board of Secondary Education Suranjana Ray, ACS SR Mohanthy, Commissioner Rajya Shiksha Kendra Deepti Gaud Mukherjee, Commissioner Public Instructions DD Agrawal and other departmental officers were also present on the
occasion.