To identify and work on the thrust areas having direct impact on the lives of the people, the Shimla district administration on Thursday initiated PEHAl, a vision document for implementing programmes under its canopy with key sectors, which includes Primary Education, (PRERNA), educating people on rights of forests, health and sanitation, anti drug campaign, livelihood and women empowerment
launching the scheme, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday said lauded the efforts of the district administration said that PRERNA, an important component of PEHAl, would go a long way in result enhancement, resource nurturing and assessment for imparting and improving the learning levels in primary schools.
The Chief Minster said that since primary education was a base on which all subsequent learning was done, the programme would help identifying gaps and making teachers responsible focusing on these gaps to make education interesting. “I am happy to learn that 100 primary schools across the Shimla district has been identified, for launching PRERNA to strengthen primary education,” said the Chief Minister. He said that student’s performance level could be assessed independently by identifying these gaps.
PEHAl was an attempt to integrate various stakeholders for overall development of the district, which includes line departments, Panchayats, Mahila and Yuvak Mandals so as to make it a peoples movement, said Deputy Commissioner, Rohan Thakur.
Educating people on forest rights, and the benefits thereof, are also under the area of operation of PEHAl, said Thakur, adding that a massive Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign to aware the people had been already launched.