SED should utilise SSA potential optimally to obtain desired outcomes: CS

Srinagar, Aug 05: Chief Secretary (CS) Atal Dulloo today said that the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has a vast scope to enhance teaching-learning process and the School Education Department (SED) should utilise its potential optimally to obtain the desired outcomes.

He impressed upon the department to make the learning outcomes/outputs measurable by using certain tools or techniques. According to a press release, CS was addressing a meeting of SED to take stock of the projects taken up under different schemes and the modern technology based learning solutions for the students.

Dulloo advised for including many more subjects to enrich the content developed for Vidhya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) including the MCQs for assistance of the students. He also urged them to create contents/videos in vernacular languages for the understanding of most of the people.

Dulloo took this occasion to have live demonstration of several bots developed by the department for making the teaching process more effective and fruitful. He watched the use of bots like Smart Attendance for students, Study Buddy developed for deep learning and retention of lessons, JK Pariksha envisaged to help students to improve their weak areas, Parent Pulse bot for feedback of parents, JK Shikshak Sahayak bot for making tailored lessons to meet specific needs of students.

Regarding VSK, Jammu it was revealed that it is going to be commissioned soon. “It was divulged that it would be helpful in monitoring Samagra Shiksha projects on real-time basis, besides tracking academic and non-academic activities, help in improving student’s performance, teacher’s accountability and resource usage besides setting up a centralised grievance help desk and creating a real-time school performance dashboard for the UT,” the press release said.

Giving details about the PM SHRI (Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India) scheme, it was given out that selected schools will showcase the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 and emerge as exemplar schools over a period of time.

Under this scheme, it was divulged that 233 schools including 74 Middle Schools, 114 High Schools and 45 Hr Secondary Schools were taken in J&K in first phase. It targets creation of 45 Atal Tinkering labs at the rate of Rs 10 lakhs, 159 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) labs at the rate of Rs 10 lakh and 45 Science Centres at the rate of Rs eight lakh in these Schools.