An aptitude test should be conducted for all students across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while reviewing the flagship programme for universalisation of elementary education.
He also sought greater synergy between the government’s Digital India initiative and related programmes of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
All schools should plan their own targets to be achieved by 2022, the country’s 75th year of independence, Modi said while reviewing the progress of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at a meeting on Monday.
He asked officials to explore the possibility of a “twinning arrangement” between a class of a school in an urban area and a class of a school in a rural area. Best teaching practices should be identified and a repository created for wider dissemination, he said.
The basic data of all school teachers, such as Aadhaar numbers, email IDs and mobile phone numbers, should be maintained in a database, he said.
