The campaign to improve quality of school education during the last six-seven years has started yielding results in Madhya Pradesh. Apart from increasing the number of schools and teachers, the State Government has also conducted School Chalen Ham Abhiyan to send children to schools effectively.
The State Government has also got teachers trained in Hyderabad to help them understand children's learning process in a better way. Emphasis is being laid on augmenting skills of teachers and trainers. They have been trained in institutions like IIM lucknow and lBSNAA Mussoorie to hone their skills.
Academic quality improvement schemes have been introduced in every district according to its specific requirements and topographic situation. Teachers of class I and II are being imparted special basic training.
Arrangements have also been made for need-based training of in-service teachers. Monographs of identified difficult concepts have been prepared on the basis of feedback. In-service training was imparted to 2 lakh 31 thousand teachers during 2013-14.
Keeping quality of education in focus, system of Pratibha Parv was evolved for corrected academic achievements and school arrangements.
Objective of Pratibha Parv being held for last some years is to correctly assess real status of improvement of education, improve children's educational skill, making administration and public representatives responsive towards teachers and teaching, honour teachers for excellent performance under Shikshit Gram Yojana and fix responsibility of negligent staff.
Besides, it also aims at taking corrective measures for children unable to achieve desired excellence, increase community participation in schooling etc.
For improving quality of education, activity-based programme has been conducted in 1605 primary schools and Active learning Method (AlM) in 14, 280 middle schools in the State.
Similarly, maths and science kits have been made available in 10,900 middle schools. From this year, arrangements have been made for constant and large-scale evaluation of activities under Right to Education Act.
Shala Darpan Yojana has been launched in two districts, Damoh and Umaria from last year for comprehensive evaluation of schools. This year, it will be introduced throughout the state with the cooperation of State Bank of India. It is noteworthy that School Chalen Hum Abhiyan is being implemented successfully this year also. In its first phase, village education registers were updated and in the second phase, enrolment campaign was conducted.
Now, the third and last phase is on which is focusing on quality of education. As per the wish of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, School Chalen Ham Abhiyan is being conducted as a mass movement. Besides, current year is also being observed as Quality Year.