Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma directed officials of School Education and literacy department to prepare a list of unaffiliated schools and after considering their infrastructure status and other parameters, their affiliation should be processed within three months. Verma was holding a review meeting of the department here on Wednesday.
The CS strictly ordered that the school management committee should be made more effective so that attendance, academy, drinking water facility including other basic amenities must be ensured at all schools.
In order to ensure timely presence of teachers in schools, the village level people must be made aware of the toll free number of the department so that they can lodge complaints. DSEs and BEOs should be made more accountable.
She directed the department Secretary to make mandatory amendment in the teachers’ appointment manual schedule clearance from all the districts including consideration of the points related with reservation herself.
The CS said that the posts identified for appointments in upgraded primary and middle schools should be sent immediately to administrative post category committee to address the need.
Verma asked to electrify all the schools of the State as earliest. She directed School Education and literacy Secretary, Aradhana Patnaik to get detailed project report (DPR) prepared from Energy Department for electrification of the schools.
As electrification will help students get technical and other education easily and will boost the school infrastructure. The process to get the first installment from the Central Government must be completed by June.
Presenting the annual fiscal plan of 2016-17, Patnaik informed Verma that Rs3478.90 crore has been provisioned for primary education and Rs771.17 crore for secondary education. Moreover, Rs1401 crore has been provisioned for primary education and Rs214 crore for secondary education under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan project of the Central Government.
The CS during the review meeting also directed the officials to make parents aware to send the drop out children back to school. She also directed to present a report on the status of Right to Education status in the state especially in context to private schools. Aradhana Patnaik along with other officers was present in the meeting.