Chief Minister Raghubar Das today instructed officials to run higher education in the State on Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. While holding a review meeting of the Higher and technical education alongwith School Education and Literacy department here on Tuesday the CM asked officials to strike agreement with big institutions, who would run higher educational institution in the State. The CM said that the students of the State should be given preference in the institutions and the government will provide all possible help.
Stressing on skill development in the State the CM said that in order to provide employment and stop migration from State skill development is the most effective process. Through skill development, 48,672 people have been connected with employment out of 71,902 trained people. Instructing officials to take feedback from the children, who have been employed in different companies recently, he asked to find out reasons why some children are leaving their jobs. If the employer is not fulfilling the requirements as per the promise, action will be taken against them.
While reviewing the Schools Education and Literacy department the CM expressed satisfaction over the progress achieved in last four years and six months. “Education system has improved in Jharkhand from primary to high school in comparison to earlier. So far 31,000 teachers have been recruited in the State. Apart from this, the process of recruitment of teachers is still going on. Improvement of teachers has resulted in improvement in the result, dropout rates have also come down significantly,” said the CM.
Instructing to recruit teachers as per district wise vacancies in the new recruitment, the CM directed officials to conduct the examination soon. He asked to appoint local teachers of the local language simplifying the rules. “Among the tribal-dominated districts, there is a shortage of teachers. First, focus on those districts. Appoint bell-based teachers, where there is no teacher right now. There is a need to make special focus on districts like Santhal Pargana, Kolhan, Palamu, Latehar and Garhwa,” said the CM.
In order to improve the education system of the State, the CM instructed to work with a target. “Basic facilities such as bench-desk, electricity etc has been provided in schools. Now, work related to drinking water need to be expedited with the amount of CSR or 14th Finance Commission. In order to train the teachers in the State invite experts from other states to prepare master trainers. To stop migration, give vocational training to school pass students. Under JCERT, design such syllabus, thereby strengthening the spirit of patriotism and nationalism. The efficiency of Schools, Principal and Block Development Officer should be measured. Schools doing well will be rewarded at the State level. Those who are constantly performing poorly, action will be taken against them. Some districts have joined self-help groups for uniforms. Issue notice for all the schools to do the same,” he said.
It was informed in the meeting that the Central Human Resource department has appreciated Akansha Yojna of the State. In this, medical and engineering coaching is being given to children of the government school. Under this, 47 children have been selected so far.
Admission has improved significantly from primary to high school in the State. In 2010-11, where primary schools had 75.5 per cent transition rate, it became 94.8 per cent in 2017-18. Similarly, transition rate from primary to secondary in 2010-11 was 77.92 per cent, became 89.5 in 2017-18. Transition rate from secondary to higher secondary has increased from 45.35 per cent to 80.11 per cent in 2017-18. Officials in the meeting said that the dropout rate in the State's 1,828 panchayats has become zero. There are 17,366 schools in it. Next year 500 panchayats have been targeted for zero dropouts. The CM instructed to send appreciation letter to zero dropout school's principal and Mukhiya of that area. The CM congratulated the officials doing good work in the e-Vidya-Vahini, Mid Day Meal.