Review meeting held in a bid to assess the progress of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan projects in Arunachal

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Itanagar: In a bid to assess the progress of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) Projects being implemented in Arunachal Pradesh under RUSA 1 and RUSA 2, a review meeting was held on Monday under the chairpersonship of Dr Madhu Rani Teotia, Secretary Education.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Teotia informed that henceforth the RUSA funding pattern particularly under RUSA 3 shall be purely based on performance and outcomes, an official release informed here today.

She added that non-NAAC accredited Institutions shall also be eligible for funding under RUSA 3.0 subject to preparation and submission of five years Institutional Development Plan (IDP) along with filling up of data in RUSA MIS portal.

While observing that in some of the institutions, the pace of work is moderately slower, the Secretary called upon the heads of the institutions and executing agencies to be proactive on completion of time bound projects and to further expedite for early submission of the Utilization Certificates.

She also called upon for the proper management and maintenance of the infrastructures so created by keeping it free from all encumbrances. She asked all heads of the Institutions to ensure for correct uploading of the respective data in the RUSA MIS portal, since the future funding shall be based on the data available against the respective institutions.

Calling upon the institutions that have yet to upload the data to ensure early uploading of the data with utmost care as the information so uploaded must comply with the data available in the AISHE portal, Dr Teotia directed that the data must also be updated in RUSA Fund Tracker App by the respective beneficiary institutions.

She stated that the geo-tagging of the all the facilities created under RUSA programme must be done by the respective beneficiary institutions for easy identification and monitoring.

Moreover, the state government has also made it mandatory for GIS mapping of the ongoing and completed projects undertaken from any of the funding sources, the release added.

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