In order to make Government schools at par with private schools, the Department of School Education and literacy has decided to form a group in all the 24 districts to establish cordial relation between the school management committees (SMC), students and teachers.
The concept of ‘Parivartan’ was decided in the recent meeting of School Education and literacy department with the aim to enhance education in all Government schools across the State. The basic objective is to implement all the schemes and policies to ensure that the benefits are reaching to the targeted groups.
‘Parivartan’ resource personnel will give ideas to ensure smooth functioning of schools along with assuring quality education and inclusive development. It will also monitor the projects under ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ like ‘Pehle Padhai Phir Bidhai’, ‘Khel-Khel Mein’, ‘Hamara Vidyalaya’, ‘Prayas’ for overall development of students.
The resource personnel are divided into three different categories. The person associated with ‘Parivartan’ will deliver their services and analyse the programmes at state, district and block level. The group will also visit the designated areas to check the progress at a regular interval.
The State level group will be headed by School Education and literacy, Secretary, Aradhana Patnaik, district level group will be monitored by Deputy Commissioners whereas block will be supervised by Block Development Officers (BDO). From organizing meeting to inspecting the school atleast one primary and one middle school, the work is divided among the members to evaluate the programmes at all schools accordingly.
The work under ‘Parivartan’ project has been bifurcated into three parts covering dimensions like inspection of all school in the jurisdiction as per decided to ensure quality education, ensuring SMC presence, demarcating nutritious areas and formation of child cabinets to maintain regularity.
Implementation of academics and other co-curricular activities including removing communication gap among the stakeholders will be another major task for the group members, apart scrutinizing quality mid-day meal and checking teachers’ presence in schools.
It has been also instructed to all the District Superintendent of Education (DSE) to ensure that all schools will conduct assembly regularly giving emphasis on personality development. Moral value classes including General Knowledge enhancement classes must be held by the teachers, for which the school management needs to prepare the time table accordingly. School calendar too must be drafted by the teachers and other members giving details of all school activities.
“Apart academics, special attention must be given on moral value education including GK classes for overall personality development of the students. These measures will also help in retaining large number of students in school making academics more interesting,” said, School Education and literacy, Secretary, Aradhana Patnaik.