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Human Resource Development Minister Nara Lokesh connected Wednesday said that the Andhra Pradesh authorities was committed to processing an ‘Andhra Model of Education’ that would service arsenic a relation exemplary for the country.
Addressing a reappraisal gathering with District Education Officers (DEOs) and Additional Project Coordinators (APCs) astatine the Secretariat successful Amaravati, Mr. Lokesh said the authorities was introducing large reforms to fortify nationalist acquisition and amended learning outcomes.
Mr. Lokesh said teachers are being sent overseas to survey the champion teaching practices, which would aboriginal beryllium implemented successful authorities schools crossed the State. Stressing the request for prime education, helium said that authorities schools indispensable beryllium capable to vie with backstage institutions and that each decisions should absorption connected students’ futures.
Expressing interest implicit astir 1 lakh schoolhouse dropouts successful the State, Mr. Lokesh directed the officials to enactment towards achieving 100% enrolment. He asked them to place and bring backmost the children who were ne'er enrolled connected the acquisition system.
He urged the officials to amended enrolment successful authorities schools by astatine slightest 10% and appreciated teachers for the improved SSC results this year. He noted that the government’s advertisements congratulating palmy students had boosted assurance among children studying successful authorities schools.
Recalling his experiences during the Yuva Galam padayatra, Mr. Lokesh said nary kid should beryllium forced into labour oregon cultivation enactment owed to migration oregon poverty.
Calling for a beardown implementation of the Guaranteed Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (GFLN) programme, helium said adjacent a tiny percent of learning gaps affects lakhs of students.
The authorities is implementing the ‘One Class-One Teacher’ strategy and introducing clicker exertion and Chromebooks for Class IX students to amended schoolroom learning, helium said.
Star-rating strategy for schools
Highlighting the value of infrastructure, helium said the authorities has introduced a star-rating strategy for authorities schoolhouse facilities. Every schoolhouse should person leak-proof buildings, drinking water, toilets, benches, and due schoolroom maintenance. He announced that astute kitchens, already introduced successfully successful Kadapa, would beryllium expanded crossed the State wrong 2 years.
Citing the illustration of the Nidamarru schoolhouse successful Mangalagiri constituency, which was being developed arsenic an planetary schoolhouse and had witnessed specified precocious request that a “No Admission” committee had to beryllium displayed, helium urged officials to make astatine slightest 1 exemplary schoolhouse successful each district.
Mr. Lokesh directed the teachers to absorption connected teaching, portion administrators should grip administrative responsibilities. He said the LEAP app and dashboard strategy would amended monitoring and guarantee transparency successful the acquisition system.
Mr. Lokesh said value-based education, sex sensitivity, yoga, and sports should person adjacent value successful schools.
HRD Department Secretary Kona Sasidhar called upon officials to proceed moving with accountability and committedness to execute the government’s acquisition goals. School Education Commissioner Thameem Ansariya and others were present.
