Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Monday announced to distribute a PC tablet to every Government school teacher in the next financial year for boosting information communication technology (ICT) at school level and for ensuring real time monitoring of Government schools activities to further improve all school performances.
The gift for the teachers came while the Chief Minister launched the e-vidya vahini web project, an online monitoring system to keep track of government student’s educational records, record of accomplishments of teacher’s performance, including testimony of e-madhyan (Mid-Day Meal scheme) for future references.
All government schools of the State will be linked up with e-vidya vahini web portal soon. School authorities will now have to feed in all details in this master portal.
“State Government will give PC tabs to every government school teacher next year. The step will ensure expansion of communication technology across the State in imparting quality education to kids. `25 crore will be allocated for the purpose,” the CM said.
The Department of School Education and literacy, on the occasion, signed MoU with two NGOs to provide education to Government school kids at par with private institutions. Sampark Foundation, an NGO, earlier initiated ‘Sampark Smart Shala’ programme across all government primary schools in Chhattisgarh.
Focusing on four goals, this NGO will train over 60,000 teachers, distribute 26,000 mathematics and English kits among children, monitor the progress of 40 lakh children on a monthly basis through ‘Sampark Smart Shala App’ and will also create an education quality resource group for mathematic and English at block, district and State level to improve learning outcomes of children.
Similarly, learning links Foundation, another NGO, will identify learning gaps, provide career counseling to students besides, monitoring competency based student-learning levels through the academic year. The project will be implemented in 795 schools across Jharkhand. Through the Education Management Information System (EMIS), a record of students learning outcome will be maintained through a database as per the pact.
The CM also maintained that all DEOs, DSEs and school teachers must deliver their duties with utmost sincerity and with responsibility. He laid emphasis on conducting surprise inspections to schools at a regular interval and conducting free coaching classes for the meritorious candidates of Government schools studying in standard 9 and 10.
“The work culture here must be changed to bring the State at par with other developed States. State Government does not require incompetent and lethargic workforce. Only with equal participation of all, literacy rate of the State can be improved,” added Das.
Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, Amit Khare, Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Kumar, School Education and literacy Department Secretary, Aradhana Patnaik, Director Secondary Education, Manish Ranjan and JEPC Director Mukesh Kumar were present were present on the occasion.