Chandigarh, January 25: Haryana Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Lal today called upon the management committees of private schools to assist in improving the educational standard of government schools by adopting the schools in their surrounding areas.
Mr. Manohar Lal was addressing the gathering after laying the foundation stone of the new building of Lions Public School near village Dhankot in Gurugram district today. This school building will be constructed by the Gurgoan City Lions Service Trust and the school will operate under the aegis of Lions Club International. The Chief Minister inaugurated the program by lighting the lamp.
Describing the role of education , he said that education has a major role to play in character building. He said that the state government is making conscious efforts to raise the educational standards in the state. The private institutions are also contributing to the same, so both the government and private institutions are partners in this task and have the same objective.
He said that the management of private schools should adopt neighboring government schools and help them improve their standard of education. He made it clear that the resources at government schools will be provided by the state government while the pattern would be that of private schools. For this, he has instructed the officers concerned to sign MoUs with the management of the private schools. He said that some private schools in Karnal have also adopted 50 government schools and said that other institutions should also come forward to adopt government schools in other districts.
The Chief Minister said that the Congress Government's 'No Detention Policy', according to which no student should be declared as failed until Class 9 had led to a decline in the standard of education in the government schools. He informed that the present government took cognizance of this and started conducting monthly tests, which has led to an improvement in students. He informed that the government started Saksham Yojana , which helped in making strong base of children studying in government schools. The Chief Minister said that in the year 2014, the result of the Class 10 Board examinations was 30 percent pass percentage. Due to the continuous efforts of the government, the result of Class 10 has reached above 50 percent and the result of Class 12 is more than 60 percent. Thus, the result has improved by 10 to 12 percent. He said that the government has engaged experts to improve the educational standards and experiments are being carried out to enhance the learning levels.
The Chief Minister said that loan will be provided to help children pursue higher education. He said that the education loan facility will be available soon to students for pursuing higher education without giving collateral guarantee.
He informed that two centers are being run in Jhajjar and Panchkula to prepare talented children of government schools for competitive examinations. He said that around 200 children of these centers appeared in the IIT pre-mains, of which 72 have been selected. This is a good start. Giving 3 D’s formula to the students, the Chief Minister said that they should work hard with Dedication, Discipline and Determination. Mr. Manohar Lal said that tomorrow's India depends on today's students. At the same time, he called upon the teachers to work on improving the learning level of students, of whatsoever caliber he or she is.
The Chief Minister appreciated the initiative of Lions Club to open a school in village Dhankot and said that this village is adjacent to the cyber city of Gurugram, so they cannot call it completely rural. He appealed to the members of the Lions Club to spread education to far-flung villages.
Earlier, Lions Club member and former MLA Mr. Zakir Hussain welcomed the Chief Minister and other guests. Mr. Hussain said that the Chief Minister is running the state with an idea of development.
Lions Public School Chairman Mr. Vijay Budhiraja said that the Lions Club started a school in 1991 with 50 children. Now, one of the branches of the school has a strength of 1,800 children who are receiving education at minimum fees. On this occasion, Chief Minister's media advisor Mr. Amit Arya, Gurugram MLA Mr. Sudhir Singla, Badshahpur MLA Rakesh Daulatabad were present.