The second round of inspection of schools under the APJ Abdul Kalam Quality Education Mission had begun on January 11 in the entire State, officials informed.
The students are being evaluated on the basis of reading skills, writing skills and personality development skills. Reading skills include the availability of all the books, reading of the texts at a reasonable speed, nuances of poetry and reading with rhyme and rhythm.
The personality development skills include utilizing the time-period in schools, speaking extempore on any subject, writing on the surroundings and the family.
Data has to be collected on the cultural activities of the students. The supervisors have to observe that 90 per cent of the students are well-versed at the mathematical calculations. The students are given adequate time to do maths. There is enough material for the students to follow, officials stated.
Notably, Chhattisgarh Government is also going for third party evaluation of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) programme in government schools of Chhattisgarh.
The State Primary Education Mission would be selecting the third party evaluators for a total of 653 Government schools in the State, officials stated.
Incidentally, the system for facilitating online processing of the salaries of Panchayat teachers for all 27 districts is almost complete in Chhattisgarh.
The data of all Government schools and teachers is being used now for preparing salary of the teachers employed with the School Education Department, officials stated.
Except Kondagaon and Balrampur, the online processing work of Panchayat teachers of 25 districts with a total of 83 development blocks had been completed.
Chhattisgarh’s village panchayats will soon be provided high speed internet connectivity across the State, officials stated.
The optical fibre network (OFC) is now being expanded to provide high speed of 20 mbps connectivity at gram-panchayat levels, officials stated.
Interestingly, it may be mentioned here that Chhattisgarh bagged e-Panchayat National Award for linking almost all the panchayats with Information Technology network in the month of April this year.
In Chhattisgarh, the affairs of gram panchayats have been made online through internet and to maintain transparency in work even the vouchers related to expenditure are been uploaded on the website, the officials stated.
The income-expenditure of the gram panchayats is being uploaded on website with help of 'Priya' a software in order to proper information about financial management of the panchayats to the people.