Assembly passes Rs 8,890 cr budget for Education
School Education Minister Paras Jain informed the State Assembly on Wednesday that 39,000 contractual teachers would be recruited this year in the State. The House passed the budgetary demands of Rs 8,890 crore 75 lakh and 93 thousand of the School Education Department by voice vote after the reply of the Minister.
Jain while replying to the budgetary demands of his department further said that the State has demanded one thousand new schools in the State from the Central Government. School gift scheme would be launched for the development of schools, efforts are on to restart board examinations of fifth and eighth class, free books would be distributed to over 1.30 crore students from class one to twelfth and by July end GIS mapping of all the schools would be done, he added.
Jain further said that during the last six years 1,592 middle schools have been elevated to high school 840 high schools were elevated to higher secondary schools. To ensure teachers presence in the schools toll free call centre and mobile phone based technology would be launched this year. Online posting of principals, lecturers and teachers would be done after their promotions. Computerization of the commissioner public education office would be done in order to do transparency in the working. Arrangements have also been made for monitoring of online registration and resolution of complaints and problems of teachers and officers. Promotion of teachers and officers are made early, he added.
He said that under the free and compulsory children education right Act over 70 thousand children were provided admissions in the private schools of the State. Under online consolidated scholarship scheme till now after mapping of 1.35 crore students scholarship of over Rs 294 crore has been provided to 54 lakh students. The amount of scholarship is directly deposited in the accounts of the beneficiary students, he added.
The School Education Minister said that plans are that in future syllabus, uniform and bicycle would be provided to the students besides other schemes would be run through the consolidated education portal in the State.