Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed that school syllabus should be changed as per the requirement of competitive exams and encroachments from schools' land should be removed. Chouhan reviewed School Education Department's activities here on Saturday. School Education Minister Paras Jain and Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa were also present on the occasion.
Chouhan has directed to pay special attention to the quality of teaching in Government schools, which should be improved in every respect. Better communication should be made with teachers and their problems should be solved on priority basis. Contents for inculcating civic sense in children and improving their lives should be included in syllabus. Counselling should be held for rationalisation of teachers' posts. Arrangement for virtual classes of Maths and English should be made in rural areas. Action plan should be chalked out to construct lab and library in every high and higher secondary school.
The Chief Minister said that action should be ensured within time-limit for seeking cooperation from industrial houses about schools' development under social responsibility. A programme should be held next month to give away laptops to students who have secured over 85 per cent marks in exam of Board of Secondary Education. Teachers' vacancies should be filled up with transparency and bonus marks should be given to guest faculty in recruitment process.
At the meeting it was informed that School Education Department is continuing the process of filling up of over 39 thousand vacancies of teachers. Camps for redressing teachers' problems will be held by the department. Teachers' rationalisation will be done next month. Proposal has also been made to open a high school in a radius of five km.
At the meeting, the Chief Minister reviewed School Chalen Ham Abhiyan. He said that this campaign should be monitored at every stage and should be turned into a mass movement. It was informed that facility of missed calls to associate motivators with the campaign would start from May 26. Through it volunteers can join the campaign at every level.
The campaign to get children from 6 to 14 years of age admitted in schools will be run from June 16 and July 16. A separate website of the campaign is also being developed. Principal Secretary School Education Sanjay Singh, Principal Secretary to CM Manoj Shrivastava and departmental officers were present on the occasion.