Odisha to follow the Delhi template to reform government-run schools – Education News
Manoj Kumar Mishra, secretary Electronics, IT and Science and Technology, Odisha said “The education sector was disrupted over the last 18 months and this gives us an opportunity to look at it in a fresh way. The high school reform initiative will have a cascading impact on human development, social and economic growth, and making the youth more enterprising. The government school system needs a reform to compete with high-end private sector schools and give students from rural backgrounds an equal opportunity in access to quality schooling.
We are targeting high schools (secondary schools) in a phased manner. In the first phase, more than 1,070 schools have been taken up. This will be followed by a few thousand more schools to cover the entire sector. Social welfare schemes have done very well in the state and now our chief minister (Naveen Patnaik) has given a clear direction to reform the school sector”.
Reforming the school sector, however, will be a tougher challenge in Odisha than in Delhi, given that the western part of the state is hilly and tribal dominated unlike the relatively developed coastal belt.
“There is no problem in saying that we have taken a leaf out of Delhi, but Odisha is not Delhi, and our challenge and the outcome following a successful implementation will perhaps be greater, too,” Mishra said
The Odisha government will be following the Delhi template to reform government schools and to put them on a par with high-end private schools. The government aims to upgrade physical-digital infrastructure, adopt technology in teaching learning, promote STEM learning, and capacity building of teachers, including the development of a leadership pipeline.
The education, and science and technology secretaries have been entrusted with the task, which will first target high schools through an impact assessment model. Education is the new focus area to harness medium- to long-term socioeconomic benefits, according to the state government.
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