The education officers were directed to ensure that students studying in Classes I-VIII should receive their text books under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) soon in the state. Uttarakhand Education Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani instructed while chairing a review meeting with education officers on Thursday.
Naithani directed them to lay emphasis on providing quality education in the government primary schools across the state. According to him, children’s enrollment will increase in the government schools if you impart quality education in their schools.
He also directed them to give options to the teachers for teaching English in primary school. Computer education will be imparted in 500 government schools under centrally sponsored scheme Information and Communication Technology (ICT). You also prepare brochure on execution of government sponsored schemes in the state. According to him, he had requested the central Government for increasing annual budget under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan on 61th meet of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) held on April 4 this year.
He would again request the central government in a meeting slated to be held in Delhi on April 23. He directed them to ensure that transfer policy-2013 should be released soon. The education department would soon organise a workshop for those teachers who were recently awarded by the department. Mathematics and science subjects will be introduced in such higher secondary schools where these subjects were not being taught.