Chandigarh, June 17: Haryana Public Works Minister, Rao Narbir Singh said that interlocking tiles would be laid in the streets of Ram Vihar Colony falling in Gurugram Municipal Corporation area, at the cost of about Rs 1.40 crore. On the demand raised by local residents, he also directed the officers of Municipal Corporation to construct athletics track and basketball ground in Ajeet stadium located near the colony.
The Minister was interacting with the people after laying the foundation stone of construction work of roads in Ram Vihar colony in Gurugram today.
He also directed the officers to put up sign boards in all the colonies of municipal area so that no person faces any problem in locating the address. He said that for development works in Gurugram, there is no dearth of funds with Municipal Corporation Gurugram. Generally, development works get interrupted either for shortage of funds or for lack of interest by the State Government. But, our government has both funds and interest for development. He said that in the last about four and a half years of present government, the people would have that the present government is committed to development and did not discriminate with any area in the field of development. Under the abled leadership of Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal, there has been equitable development across Haryana while working with spirit of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas.
Chandigarh, June 17 – The Saksham Haryana, a state-wide educational transformation program being implemented in the state for the last five years under the able leadership and guidance of Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal has started yielding positive results as 86 per cent students in the State are now Saksham or grade level competent.
While stating this here today, Project Director, Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates Programme, Dr Rakesh Gupta said that 13 more blocks have been announced Saksham taking the total number of such blocks to 107 after eight rounds of assessment. He said that 14 districts in the State are 100 per cent Saksham after eight rounds of assessment over 18 months.
He said that multiple state level initiatives have been adopted including focus on remedial education through a Learning Enhancement Program, strengthening the academic review and monitoring mechanism in the state and improving the technology systems (Management Information System and Academic Monitoring System) of the Education Department. Assessment reforms are being carried out by administering centralised exams, improving data collection and data analysis and reducing cheating, he added.
He said that the State aims to become Saksham that is to achieve grade level competencies for 80 per cent students in the state. Grade level competencies means that a student in a particular grade knows all the competencies or skills defined for that grade. He said that for a block to be Saksham, more than 80 per cent of its students need to be grade level competent and for a district to become Saksham, all its blocks need to become Saksham. Similarly, for Haryana to become Saksham, all its districts need to become Saksham.
He said that if a block is confident that 80 per cent of its students have achieved grade level competency, it nominates itself to be assessed under ‘Saksham Ghoshna’. The state verifies their nomination through an independent third party assessment administered by testing agency Gray Matters India. It tests the syllabus as prescribed by national and SCERT Haryana and adheres to the standards of the curriculum designed by SCERT and NCERT.
He said that between December 2017 and May 2019, eight rounds of assessments have been conducted. Till February 2019, seven rounds of Saksham Ghoshna had been conducted and 94 blocks were announced Saksham. He said that on May 17, as many as 84,981 students from 1,105 schools were tested in 25 blocks across 13 districts. The results were announced on June 13, 2019 and 13 more blocks declared Saksham/grade level competent in Hindi and Math. Apart from this, eight blocks are very close to becoming Saksham. After eight rounds of Saksham Ghoshna, 90 per cent of blocks, that is 107 out of 119 blocks in Haryana, are now Saksham and 14 out of 22 districts have become fully Saksham. With the culmination of this round, 86 per cent of students of Haryana are grade level competent in Hindi and Math, he further added.
He said that 14 districts which are now fully Saksham included Jhajjar, Charkhi Dadri, Kaithal, Bhiwani, Panchkula, Mahendragarh, Karnal, Sonipat, Panipat, Gurugram, Sirsa, Rewari, Hisar and Jind. The 13 new blocks which have been declared Saksham today included Agroha, Babain, Barwala, Behal, Jagadhri, Kalanaur, Mustafabad, Pinjore, Raipur Rani, Ratia, Siwan and Siwani. Similarly, the eight nearly Saksham blocks are Barara, Ballabgarh, Ferozepur Jhirka, Ladwa, Nagina, Punhana, Rohtak and Tohana. Apart from this, four non Saksham blocks are Ambala - I (City), Ambala - II (Cantt), Chhachhrauli and Hathin.
Dr. Rakesh Gupta said that for blocks that have become Saksham/grade level competent in Hindi and Math, an assessment in English was conducted to vie for Saksham plus title. Five blocks were tested in February 2019 of which one turned Saksham plus. In May 2019, 26 more blocks were tested and four have become Saksham plus.
He said that in order to make the blocks Saksham and Saksham plus, the blocks in co-ordination with the districts implemented several reforms. Detailed district level as well as micro block-level planning and implementation was also carried out. From March to May, all the non-Saksham blocks implemented block transformation plans containing academic and leadership interventions. The District and block officials came together and everyone including DEO, DEEO, BEO, DIET principals, DIET lecturers, DPCs, APCs, CMGGAs and teachers were engaged in the preparation exercise. Apart from this, regular mentoring and monitoring visits were made to ensure competency based teaching and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) compliance. Similarly, regular pre-assessments were conducted and rigorous data analysis at the block and school level was performed to ensure that all steps were targeted towards weak students, competencies and schools. District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) and teachers also made micro-level plans to teach students at the right level based on their grade level competence. Regular reviews were done at cluster level, he added.
Dr. Gupta said that the state now aims to make all classes from 3 to 8, Saksham across all blocks, sustain the Saksham status of all blocks and improve quality of education in secondary classes. The next round of assessments would be conducted in August 2019. The NITI Aayog on national level is also recognising the learning from the state so that other states can also improve their learning levels.