The State Government, under its month-long ‘School Admission Festival,’ has decided to hold special ‘Gram Sabhas’ (village meetings) in all the 9,734 village panchayats between June 20 and 30 this year.
In these ‘Gram Sabhas,’ the villagers, in the presence of local Panch-Sarpanchs, will take a pledge to send all children in the age group of 6 to 14 years of their panchayat jurisdcitions to school.Chief Minister Raman Singh on Monday had inaugurated the State-wide ‘School Admission Festival’ in Uparwara village of Naya Raipur. This drive will continue until July 15 in over 48,000 primary and middle schools in the State.
During the ‘School Admission Festival’, being held state-wide under the ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan,’ such children, who are not going to school due to any reason or have left their study, will be given admission in school from Class I to VIII. Besides, names of the children taking new admissions would be registered.
The ‘School Admission Festival’ will be organised at school, block and district levels. According to the declared programme, special ‘Gram Sabhas’ would be organised at the Village Panchayat level from June 20 to 30, in which pledge would be taken from the villagers to send all the children to school.
Director, Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission, Rajat Kumar, in a circular send to all collectors, district panchayat presidents, district education officers, assistant commissioners of Tribal Development Department, principals of DIET, block education officers and resource coordinators, has informed them about the guidelines of the State government. All the officers were instructed to make wide publicity to the ‘School Admission Festival.’