Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma through video-conferencing has instructed all the DSEs, DEOs, including other State level education officials to strengthen the existing school management committees (SMCs) functioning across the State. Verma has also instructed the officials to conduct meeting of SMCs with all the stakeholders in every three months to review its work besides, ensuring the attendance of students and teachers at the government cradles.
All the SMCs have been instructed to focus on five major activities that include ensuring zero dropout rate in every district, regular presence of teachers at schools, cent percent students attendance, a compiled report of dropout candidates and utilizing funds allotted to each school for various educational activities. All these activities taken up by the SMCs must be highlighted on government school building boundary walls. She further added that ‘panchayat mukhiyas’ must be present in the meeting of SMCs conducted on monthly basis in different districts.
Similarly, all the SMCs have been made responsible to curb the dropout rates. Those SMCs performing exceptionally well will be felicitated by the State Government, said the CS. The State government is also gearing up to conduct ‘School Chale hum Abhiyaan’ from April 1 to enroll all the dropout students. For this purpose as well, the government has made SMCs responsible to ensure maximum enrollment.
Verma has asked the officials to prepare a list of districts that have maximum dropout rate in the State. The State government will provide PC tablets to all the government school principals to monitor the function of that specific school and link it with the information and communication technology (ICT), so that the Department of School Education and literacy Department can analyse the work and activities of each school.
In a major decision and to ensure security at all the 240 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs), Verma have asked the concerned KGBV school officials to depute two security guards on each campus premises. In addition, the CS has also instructed the KGBV principals to tie up with local doctors and conduct regular health check up camps at each KGBV to ensure students safety.