September 5 is celebrated as Teachers Day in the whole State on the birth anniversary of former President and great educationist late Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.
Teachers will be felicitated on the occasion. A State-level programme on Teachers Day will be organised at the Golden Jubilee Auditorium of RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration in Bhopal at 12 pm. Governor Anandiben Patel will be the chief guest at the state-level teachers felicitation ceremony.
The Governor will felicitate teachers selected at the state-level this year during the programme. The teachers of the state awarded by the President last year will be felicitated during the programme.
School Education Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah will preside over the teachers’ felicitation ceremony.
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava, Minister of State for School Education Deepak Joshi and Minister of State for Tribal Welfare lalsingh Arya will be special guests.
Governor Anandiben Patel will release the poster of Mahatma Gandhi Nai Taleem Abhiyan and the Shikshan Pustak of Gandhi Ji Ki Nai Taleem issued by the Ministry for Human Resources Development on the 150th birth centenary of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi during the programme.
Meanwhile, the State government has on Tuesday claimed that constant efforts in the state to increase rate of enrollment in schools have yielded better results.
In order to achieve this objective, public participation has been enhanced under the School Chalein Hum Abhiyan, it added.
In the period of 2002 and 2016-17, the number of school dropout children between 6 to 14 years of age category has come down from 6.2 lakh to 0.58 lakh.
The school dropout rate (Primary) has declined to 4.9 from 15 during the year 2002 to 2016 -17. In the same manner, the school dropout rate in middle schools has become 6.7 from 24.7. Besides, the decline at secondary schools level school dropout rate has also registered, the dropout rate has come down to 14.5 from 32. The school switch over rate (Secondary) has increased from 53 to 84.1. Similarly, the school switch over rate (Higher Secondary) has grown to 61 from 41.