The education department of Uttarakhand has given a clarion call to the volunteers of various fields to contribute their services to improve co-scholastic activities in the Government schools of the State.
Uttarakhand is one of the 20 States of the country where the volunteers would be roped in improve qualitative changes in the government schools under ambitious ‘Vidyanjali Project’. Fifty schools of the State are included under the project, the list of which is available in the official website – http://ssa.uk.gov.in — of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) of Uttarakhand.
The Secretary School education, D Senthil Pandian said that the interested persons can register themselves on the portal mygov.in developed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
The programme aims to enhance the community involvement in Government schools and volunteers would be roped in to enhance reading, creative writing, public speaking, play acting, preparing story books, counseling for academics, life skills, music and dance among the students.
Volunteers under the programme will offer their services to government schools and will conduct one or more co-scholastic activities with children such as enhancing reading skills in the students, helping children with creative writing, helping them to be a good orator by honing public speaking skills, play acting, preparing story books by acting their mentors and confidantes.These volunteers would work during school hours and will have the choice to work for select hours or the entire day depending upon the arrangement. They would however work within the school premises only under the vigilant eye of school Principal. The programme will be open for participation by all Indian citizens including retired professionals, retired government officials, working professionals, youngsters as well as homemakers. The state government has appointed Deputy Block Education Officers and school principals as nodal officers for the programme at block and school level respectively.
The scheme is enthusing those interested to share their expertise with the students but didn’t got the chance.