Drive To Rank Primary Schools
- PC : The Irish Times
The Gujarat government on Friday launched Gunotsav, an annual exercise where ministers and bureaucrats visit state-run primary schools over two days to rank them from A+ to D.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani launched the programme from Govindi village in Panchmahals district.
"The drive for qualitative improvement in the last 15 years has resulted in the increase in number of A+ grade schools from five to 2,117 and those having A grade from 3,823 to 12,556. The number of B grade schools dropped from 12,883 to 1,613 and D grade from 14,582 to 300. The numbers speak about the success of Gunotsav," Rupani said.
"My government spends Rs 25,000 crore annually on education from kindergarten to postgraduate level to make learning simple and world-class," he added.
He said that his government planned to make all classrooms virtual smart ones in five years, replacing blackboards with palmtops.
A release from the state's Information department stated that over 54 lakh students from 32,780 primary government schools, 863 grant-in-aid schools and 804 ashram shalas would take part in the initiative that is being held today and tomorrow.
Rupani said that he was hopeful that the state would achieve 100 percent literacy, adding that it had gone up from 50 per cent to 74 per cent since the programme was launched.
