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Govt focuses on quality of meal, education at school
Uttarakhand Government held a meeting on Tuesday focusing on improving the quality of education and meals in schools.
The secretary, school education, Uttarakhand, D Senthil Pandiyan held a video-conference meeting with the officials of the education department across the state on Tuesday and discussed and reviewed topics including exam results, mid-day meal, quality of education, e-portal, model schools; also, important decisions regarding improvement in quality of education in state-owned schools were taken.
It has been directed that in 2015-16, after examination results will be reviewed, a detailed report to secondary education department is to be given by all chief education officiers of 13 districts. Resultantly, all teachers and principals will be acknowledged under whom the students gave excellent results and disciplinary action will be taken against those under whom students have shown poor performance in the board examinations.
Also directions have been provided that in all government schools, a register of all those students who are academically weak should be prepared and while reviewing and supervising these schools, the register and the remedial teaching should be used.
It was also ordered that a proposal will be given to the state government, to ensure that young kids in government schools are given nutritional meals. Bhojan matas are requested to inspect and check the quality of food, before it is served to students.
Another important decision taken included all the chief education officers of 13 districts to go on round of inspection to all govenment schools under the Rashtriya Baal Swasthya Karyakram besides which, differently abled kids should be identified and referred to higher medical centres and the information about the same needs to be given to the education directorate.
There were other directions, which were given including – increasing the quality of education in the state, for which a committee of officiers and teachers will be constituted who will go on a study-visit to other states to understand how these states are effectively running Mid-may meal, inspections, other academic related activities and will share their experiences on their return and the good points will be imbibed and implemented in the state. Other than this, as soon as the requisite arrangements are made, there should be quick appointments of teachers in model schools.
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