Make education attractive in government schools: Pema Khandu

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ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu Monday called on all the heads of the schools to make education in government schools attractive to students by improving its quality.

Addressing a state-level conference here, the chief minister said despite top priority being given to improve school education in the state, people are reluctant to send their children to government schools.

Khandu called on the teaching community to take proactive role in building confidence among the people.

He said when compared to private school teachers, government school teachers are better paid and qualified yet government schools have failed to match with private schools in performance.

The Chief Minister said a difference would be visible only when there involves change in mindset. He emphasized on discipline and motivation and underlined the importance of regular orientation and training programme for the teachers.

To boost morale among the teachers, Khandu said all illegal promotions would be discouraged and urged that the departmental promotion committee (DPC) be conducted regularly to provide promotion on genuine basis.

He asked the teachers to provide genuine feedback on success of various flagships programme on education being implemented on the ground.

On infrastructure, Khandu said all infrastructure gap wouldbe filled up in phased manner across the State. He informed that the state government also plans to use prefabricated school buildings to address the infrastructure gap given the geographical and climatic challenges involved.

He said such prefabricated buildings would be first used in government higher secondary school, Itanagar on pilot basis and upon its success would be implemented elsewhere. He also informed that state government plans to develop the school as ‘model school’ by giving facelift to its infrastructure.

Khandu said to improve education, transparency measures are also being taken with budgeting exercises conducted with full consultation with the public. He said districts are being empowered financially and decision making delegated to decide on their own needs of their educational needs.

Education Minister Taba Tedir speaking on the occasion, presented a detailed summary of all education related flagships programme of the state and central government.

The conference was organized by the State’s directorate of secondary education.

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