With a view tospearhead enrollment drive, currently underway in Government Schools in abig way, the Education Secretary, Krishan Kumar, today, visited governmentschools situated at Dera Baba Nanak, Bhikhariwal, Derh Fattupur, DharampuraBatala in Gurdaspur district and Jhandwal and Parmanand in Pathankot district.
He also heldvirtual meetings with the officials of the education department, district andblock mentors to take stock of the progress of the enrollment drive.
While lauding theconsistent, concerted and dedicated efforts being put in by the teachers forthe extension and augmentation of infrastructural facilities as well asqualitative improvement in teaching-learning process for the past fouryears, Krishan Kumar, said that the revolutionary changes in government schoolshave succeeded in changing the mind set of the people.
Besides, thevisible positive change in the morale of the teachers could easily be gaugedfrom the fact that they have been highlighting the achievements of governmentschools confidently with a beat of the drum to mobilise people to get theirwards admitted in government schools in their respective areas, said theEducation Secretary, while adding that the teachers have launchedmultidimensional massive enrollment drive.
The teachers havebeen adopting both traditional as well as digital modes to highlight theirachievements to mobilise admissions. They are going door to door, holdingenrollment camps, using public address systems of religious places, stagingstreet plays, affixing flex hoardings at public places, playing enrollmentpromotional songs through pedal rickshaws , auto rickshaws and vans etc.to highlight their achievements.
The optimum utilisation of latest digitalapplications are also being done to ensure easy and hassle free access to the admissionportal for the public. Most of the schools have prepared
"eprospectuses", google forms, admission apps etc and sharing the same withthe students, parents and different sections of community through a well -knitvast social media network created by the education department to make thepeople aware about the changing scenario of the government schools, he furtheradded. Moreover, the transparent process of recruitment as well astransfer of teachers has also given a fillip to the qualitative improvementin school education, he added.