With the aim of increasing the attendance of children in schools, today the ‘Seeti Bajao, School Bulao' campaign was started in the entire state along with the social media campaign. In every district of the state, officials visited every village and monitored the campaign. Today, on the first day of this campaign, children from all 35,000 government schools of the state visited the school's feeder area, they whistled and appealed to all the parents to send their children to school. Along with the children, the school headmaster, teachers, school management committee members and intellectuals of the area also participated in this campaign.
In this mega campaign, Deputy Commissioner, District Education Officer, District Education Superintendent, Area Education Officer, Sub-Divisional Education Officer, Block Education Extension Officer, Block Program Officer, Block Resource Service, Cluster Resource Service, teachers, students, parents of every district of the state took active participation in this campaign. ADPO at the district level, BPO at the block level and CRP at the cluster level have been made the nodal officers of this campaign. On the success of this state level campaign, Chief Minister cum Departmental Minister Hemant Soren, Secretary of School Education and Literacy Department K. Ravi Kumar, State Education Project Director Kiran Kumari Pasi and all other departmental officials congratulated the district administration and all the education officials.
The ‘Seeti Bajao, School Bulao' campaign started with a social media campaign. Thousands of people and various officials supported this campaign on their social media profiles by posting pictures and videos of children coming to school whistling on the hashtag #SeetiBajao. Pictures and videos started being posted on various social media platforms from 8.30 am with the hashtag #SeetiBajao. By 1 pm #SeetiBajao started trending in India on Twitter (formerly Twitter). Apart from X, people also posted thousands of posts under this hashtag on Facebook, Instagram and Koo app.
Under the campaign, a rally was taken out by all the government schools of the state from 8 am today. In these rallies, school children took to the streets with posters, slogans etc. and explained the importance of education to the people. The children whistled and in their own style appealed to the local people to send their children to school. Children of all government schools including Chief Minister's School of Excellence, Adarsh School, Kasturba School took out a rally and pledged to have 100 per cent attendance in schools.
In the rally organized under this Whistle Blow campaign, school children were using inspirational slogans to create awareness among the common people. These included slogans like “Jan Jan ko Jagana hai, har bacche ko school lana hai”, “Har subah, Har Baccha, School me hi accha”. The effect of the children's appeal was visible among the local people also. They were also getting their children ready and sending them to school.
On the success of the Seeti Bajao, School Bulao campaign, K. Ravi Kumar, Secretary, School Education and Literacy Department, said that education is an administrative subject as well as a social subject, hence society's participation always plays an important role in it. We are all excited by the success of this campaign to bring the drop out children back to school, other such programs will be run with social participation in future also. He thanked the entire team of the education department, parents and students for this innovative participation.