Taking the initiative of Swacch Bharat Mission a step ahead while linking children with the ambitious mission, the State government has decided to felicitate the cleanest school with the ‘Swachchh Vidyalaya Award’.
The cleanest cradle will also get Rs 1 lakh as a token amount for keeping the campus premises of school tidy. The announcement was made on Friday by CM Raghubar Das during the review meeting of Department of School Education and literacy.
“In every three months, the cleanest government schools will be felicitated with the title ‘Swacch Vidyalaya award’ and will be given Rs 1 lakh as an appreciation prize,” Das said. Similarly, in another major decision, the State government will also establish residential schools in Bokaro, Giridih, latehar and West Singhbhum for orphan kids while the State government will establish one special residential school each in Ranchi and West Singhbhum for kids, rescued from the vicious cycle of human trafficking.
The CM while reviewing the status of the department said, now through Public Distribution system(PDS), the food grains will be supplied to schools for preparing mid-day meal. He said that lPG provision is being made at every Government school.
While instructing the officials, the CM has also asked the officials to fill up all vacant posts of teachers at primary, middle and higher secondary level besides, preparing the list for next five years and analysing the vacancies for the teachers’ posts.
Providing facilities to the students of Government schools at par with private institutions, educational tour is being planned for the students to provide them exposure. Besides the bookish knowledge, excursion trips are important in providing hand on experience. Around 26,370 students will be taken on State tour while 5000 students will get a chance to visit other states during the summer vacation. The State Government is planning Shimla trip for children studying at government schools.
For ensuring basic infrastructure at schools, the CM said that in May 2017, all schools will have bench- desk facilities. He also directed the officials to prepare a scheme of supplying drinking water in the schools. He said that approval of State Planning Empowered Committee has been received for building one school each in South Chotanagpur Division, Kolhan Division and Santhal Pargana Division on a similar concept of Netarhat Residential School, Netarhat/Indira Gandhi Residential School, Hazaribagh.
Education Minister Neera Yadav during the meeting said that attempts should be made by every panchayat to achieve ‘zero drop out’ target at the earliest. Approximately, 125 panchayats have been declared as zero drop out panchayats. Secretary, Department of School Education and literacy, Aradhana Patnaik said that 25,337 schools have been provided with benches and desks and 25,110 schools have been electrified.
For keeping the record of learning level and monitoring ‘Real Time Table’ of children, every government school will be given one tablet each under ‘E-Vidyawahini’ programme. Rs 2,000 is being deposited in the bank and post office accounts of all tribal girls who have passed class 5. So far, 1.22 lakh girls are covered under this scheme.
The CM also reviewed Jharkhand Balika Awasiya Yojana, Sakshar Bharat Karyakram, Sikshak –Shiksha Karyakram, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Sudridhikaran, Free Cycle scheme, Free Dress scheme, Shikshak Puraskar Yojana, Akansha Yojana and other schemes in the presence of officials.