A meeting of State-level steering committee on ‘Rashtriya Aaviskar Abhiyan’ (RAA) for school education was conducted at the State Secretariat on Wednesday. The objective of the RAA is to connect the knowledge achieved in the schools with the outside world and make studies in Mathematics and Science activity based. Addressing the meeting the Secretary School education, D Senthil Pandian said that there is a need to develop scientific temper among the students which would help them to achieve success in the field of academics and research. Emphasizing community participation for providing quality education in the schools, he said that primary knowledge of technical education should be imparted to the student so that they are able to link it with daily activities. Pandian called upon the Industries association of Uttarakhand and Department of technical education to give priority to such programmes. A year-wise calendar of events for RAA was also released during the meeting. In first phase
The mentoring instructions like NITs would select 100 schools where the scheme would start as pilot project in the year 2015-16. The department aims to cover 5 per cent schools under the project in the year 2016-17 while 25 per cent schools would be covered in next year. The department aims to cover 50 per cent schools by the year 2018-19 and 100 per cent schools till the end of academic year 2019-20.
In the meeting it was decided that the progress of RAA implementation would be reviewed every three months. The president of Uttarakhand Industries association Pankaj Gupta assured the participants that the industry is ready to support the education department in this endeavor.
The meeting was attended by the Additional Secretary Ranjana, Director Secondary education R K Kunwar, Director Primary education Seema Jaunsari, Additional Project Director RMSA Sashi Choudhary, Additional Director B S Negi, Associate Professor NIT Navjot Singh, State convener of National Children science congress N K Pant, state head of Sampark foundation Rajan Adhikari, state head of Pratham organisation S D Singh, administrative officer B P Navani and select group of teachers.