Government has set an ambitious task to make 15 lakh persons literates by the end of March, 2018. Holding a review meeting of School Education and literacy Department on Wednesday Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma also directed DSEs and DEOs to reduce dropout rate in the State.
“None of the child enrolled into school should dropout in middle. Besides ensuring enrolment we should also conduct mapping of all the schools to check the dropout rate. All the illiterates should be identified and at least six lakh of them should be given literary education so that we can make 15 lakh persons literate by March next year,” said the Chief Secretary. She also stressed on admission of the girls of KGBV into polytechnic colleges who have passed class their 10th exam recently.
The CS was also particular about leftwing extremism affected areas where numbers of seats in colleges have been raised besides providing skill education to the students as per their choices. “Such girls getting lesser marks should be registered at ‘Hunar’ portal so that they can generate self-employment,” said the CS.
She also stressed over holding school management committee meeting on regular interval and for ensuring participation of any district level official into that so that the efforts of the Mukhia, BRP, CRP can be assessed and responsibility can be fixed. The CS at the same time directed the officials to expedite account opening and Aadhaar seeding drive of the school children.
It was informed in the meeting that till date Mukhias have issued zero dropout certificates to total 1200 panchayats of which 559 panchayats have been verified and the concerned DCs have issued the final certificate as well. Secretary of the Department Aradhana Patnaik and several other officials were present in the meeting.
Meanwhile, holding a review meeting of the Jharkhand State livelihood Promotion Society here on Wednesday, Verma, stressed on resource mapping for self-employment at village and panchayat levels. She asked to choose at least three enterprises for connecting Sakhi Mandals with livelihood. Verma also asked to prepare a plan for opening canteens in government offices and blocks and districts.
The committee informed that for the purpose of setting up canteens in blocks, sub divisions and district offices 184 Sakhi Mandals have been selected till date. As many as 35 catering units were being run through Sakhi Mandals. The CS also asked to help Sakhi Mandals for milk production and distribution.