SHILLONG, SEPT 13: Meghalaya deputy chief minister RC Laloo, who is also in-charge education, informed that the state government would soon implement the ‘Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)’ to replace the annual examination system usually practice in schools.
“There will be no detention or in other words no examination would be required once the CCE is implemented,” Laloo said in his address at the World Literacy Day celebration function on Friday.
According to Laloo Meghalaya is the only state that has prepared a detail system of the ‘Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)’ or ‘No Detention’. He said,“We have submitted a comprehensive report for the implementation of the CCE as mandated by the RTE Act in the state to the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry.”
Laloo pointed out that the HRD ministry had even remarked that Meghalaya is the only state who has completed the exercise on the matter. “They (ministry) have appreciated the recommendation made by the state government,” he said.
Laloo said with the implementation of the CCE, major revolution and reforms will be seen in the education system.”
Though at present the state has recorded a literacy rate at 75.48 per cent, Laloo however said, “It is not impossible for our state to reached 100 per cent literacy rate.
Laloo urged the education department, teachers, students and stakeholders to take the responsibility to ensure that the state achieve the targeted literacy of securing hundred per cent which will change the education scenario in the state.
Laloo also launched the ‘geographical information system (GIS)’ to map the different schools across the state in line with the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act to mark the celebration of the World Literacy Day.
The technology will help spot neighbourhood schools in any area besides disseminating other information of the schools. It will also help in demarcating neighbourhood schools and identify different types of schools located in the neighbourhood boundary.
So far more than 5000 schools across the state have been mapped.
The main objectives of the programme is to mobilise OOSC, drop-out and never-enrolled children to enroll themselves in a regular school and special
training centre as mandated by the Right to Education (RTE).
Education department principal secretary PS Thangkhiew,who graced the occasion as guest of honour, informed that the state government has sent over 17000 untrained teachers for distance learning training programme. According to him, untrained teachers can be dismissed from their services if they are not trained as per the RTE Act. Similarly, if the schools which are funded under SSA fail to come under government it will be declare as private schools.
Taking the ongoing agitations by the teachers into account, Thangkhiew said that all these schools are private schools which the government is only providing financial assistance to their respective management committees .He said there is a need to involve and bring on board these management committees while pointing out that the state largely depends on central resources.
Thangkhiew, however, said that state government as well as the teachers is on the same side because the students are the primary beneficiaries. Everything according to him revolves around the interest of the students.
Giving a brief report on the enrollment drive being conducted, state project director of SEMAM-SSA FR Kharkongor said over 9000 children falling under the category of drop outs and never-enrolled were enrolled in the different schools funded by the SSA.
Later Lallo also enrolled some of the children from East Khasi hills district and also handed them the transport escort allowances.
Meanwhile, four teachers from the Directorate of Educational Research and Training (DERT) have been selected by the union government for an advanced teacher training course in US. The four months training programme is a collaborated effort of the union government and US based universities.-By Our Reporter
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