DSEJ addresses participants at enrollment drive
Urges stakeholders to inform public about benefits of government schools
“Government schools offer modern amenities and improved infrastructure”
“1000 new kindergartens established with high-quality furniture and Teaching Learning Material”
“Special Aya’s engaged by SAMAGRA to provide care in new kindergartens”
JAMMU: The Councelling Cell of Directorate of School Education Jammu today organised a webinar cum question-answer session under the series ”Aao Baat Karein’ keeping in mind the ongoing enrollment drive which is in full swing these days across all the ten districts of Jammu division. Dr. Ravi Shankar Sharma, Director School Education Jammu was the guest speaker while Dr. Alka Sharma anchored the session putting up queries and questions of the stake holders and the audience to the guest speaker.
Dr. Ravi Shankar Sharma spoke at length about the importance of education specifically in today’s day and age and the dire need to enroll all the out of school children back into the mainstream of our education system. He said that the cheif aim of the ongoing enrollment drive was
to enroll more and more students in government schools so as to achieve the goal of universal enrollment and retention of children in government schools while ensuring that no child of 3 years and above is left behind. And to achieve this goal, the main USP of the government schools is that the staff is highly educated and well trained, specially in comparison to the private sector schools.
Enunciating the advantages of government schools, he said that the government schools now a days have a vastly improved infrastructure along with all the modern amenities including
Smart classrooms, CAL Labs, Atal Tinkering Labs, counselling cells, happiness zones, well developed sports infrastructure with coaching facilities by experts, Kindergartens, playgrounds, well-equipped libraries, laboratories, art and craft rooms, Vocational courses, Scholarships etc.. Students are also being provided with free textbooks and other learning material as well as mid-day meals to help in maintaining the nutrition levels of the students.
He urged all the stake holders including CEOs , HOIs and chiefly the teaching community to aware the common masses about various schemes, scholarships, facilities and benefits provided by the government in schools so that the message percolates to every section of the society and the parents can make an informed choice towards admitting their wards into government schools. Utmost attention is being paid towards the students who have special needs for which the Directorate has staff members who are well educated and trained in providing special care to such students, divulged the Director.
The enrollment drive last year was a successful one and the current one will be an improvement by leaps and bounds if the teaching community and other staff members work in tandem with each other and diligently, hoped Dr. Ravi Shankar Sharma
