It will not be mandatory anymore to pass all students of classes V and VIII in the state. Further, the budget session of the Vidhan Sabha will be held from March 3 to 6 at Gairsain.
These and other important decisions were taken in the cabinet meeting presided over by the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat here on Wednesday.
Of the 13 points on the agenda, the cabinet took decisions on 10 points. Decision on the remaining three points will be taken in the next cabinet meeting.
Informing the media about the decisions, cabinet minister and State Government spokesman Madan Kaushik said that the cabinet had approved amendment in Uttarakhand right of the children to free and compulsory education rules following which it will not be mandatory to pass all students of classes V and VII and send them to the next class. Those who do not score passing marks will be considered fail. However, the students who fail will be given another chance to reappear in an examination within two months.
If they fail to pass even in this examination, they will continue in the same class for one more year. Kaushik informed that the Central Government had amended the RTI Act last year and the states had also been asked to do the needful. Hence, the cabinet had approved amendment in the RTI Act section 16.
Now, the students who fail their final examination in classes V and VIII will be given additional lessons and given a chance to appear once again the exam in two months of the declaration of the results. The cabinet also approved simplification of allocating mining lots on private land.
The district magistrate has been authorised to grant permission for this. In addition to this, the cabinet also approved 78 posts in the Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) and hearing of finance and banking services cases under the Legal Services Authority.
Further, cabinet sub-committees will look into the issue of the university umbrella act and the deemed forest classification issue.
The cabinet also approved the decision to purchase 12 hectare land following closure of the HMT factory in Nainital. The State government will purchase the land for Rs 72 crore.