School education and literacy Department Secretary Aradhana Patnaik on Thursday said that the State Government was committed to provide quality education in schools and for it many schemes are going on be implemented effectively across the State. Patnaik, alongwith a team of senior officials was in Hazaribagh to chair a meeting of education department of all the seven districts of North Chotanagpur division here on Thursday.
The marathon meeting was held at St Robert Girls’ School Hazaribagh where Directors of midday meal scheme, Sarv Shiskha Abhiyaan and Jharkhand Education Project were present to discuss on issues related with improving the quality of education in Government schools.
After the meeting Patnaik said that it was the first meeting of its kind at Hazaribagh because in meetings at State headquarter due to less turnouts of officials the message and directions do not reaches at the ground level much effectively. “In this meeting I have directed the officials to complete the jobs like electrification, toilet construction, drinking water facility etc by 15th of November,” she added.
The Secretary said that the department was going to constitute ‘Parivartan Dals’ including the teachers of those schools where these jobs have been successfully completed. Soon these groups will visit to those schools and talk with the teachers, students and guardians and will try to remove hurdles for that very schools as per their experience, wisdom and ground situation.
“I have also directed the education officers of all the districts to look into the matters of negligence in duty and other such matters of indiscipline seriously and to himself monitor the electrification and sanitation work of the schools. I have also instructed the officials to have boards in every schools having the names of teachers working there with their unique identity number so that everyone can be aware of it. The Government has already sanctioned amount for providing infrastructure to the schools and important directions were given in this meeting to the officials on this regard also,” she added.
The district education officers and secondary education officer of all the seven districts of North Chotanagppur division were present in this more than five hours long meeting.