The District Project Office, Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission, Kanker had given a proposal under District Mineral Fund (DMF) for installation/ construction of special prefabricated school building structure for eight Primary and one Upper Primary Schools functioning at various locations of Antagarh, officials informed.
The proposal has been sanctioned and now it is intended to start the work as soon as possible and complete it before the start of new academic session, they informed.
At nine locations in Antagarh Block, under Chhattisgarh District Project Office, Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission is responsible for implementation of "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan" which is the comprehensive and integrated flagship programme of Government of India, to attain Universal Elementary Education (UEE) in partnership with the State Government, officials informed.
The Central Government has also granted approval under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) for up-gradation of 704 upper primary schools including 49 porta cabin upper primary schools into secondary schools in 16 left Wing Extremism (lWE) affected districts of Chhattisgarh, officials informed.
Based on the proposals received from State Government, residential facilities (36 boys hostels and 20 girls hostels) were sanctioned in 54 upgraded secondary schools in four Worst lWE affected districts of Chhattisgarh as a special case in the year 2017-18.
Students of other schools in the vicinity of these hostels can also be accommodated in these hostels.
The proposals for new schools etc under RMSA are submitted by the State Governments/UTs in their Annual Work Plan submitted to the Ministry and the viable proposals are approved in consultation with the State/UT concerned as per scheme norms and availability
With a view to improving quality of education delivery in insurgency-infested Bastar region, the Chhattisgarh Government last year also decided to introduce hi-tech tools for imparting education in Science, Mathematics and English in Government primary schools.
The Government would be using audio-visual equipment in the schools while also introducing a number of ‘self learning modules’, officials informed.
Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS), the nodal agency of Department of Electronics & Information Technology of Chhattisgarh Government has developed 'ShaalaKosh' software application for Department of School Education in the State, officials informed.
The objective of the project is to enable real-time continuous monitoring of more than 48000 government schools of the Chhattisgarh State and self-reporting of various aspects related to school education to improve the quality of education in government schools in the State.