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Itanagar, Dec 9: Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar in a meeting on ‘Mission Shiksha’ of the Education Department stressed on quality education to improve the education sector in the State.
Admitting that there is need for infrastructure development of the educational institutions in the State, the Chief Secretary said that delivering quality teaching must be the primary goal and objective of the Education Department in order to improve the education sector. He, therefore, asked the Department to prepare an action plan with key results to be achieved with timeline.
Arunachal Pradesh is one of the lowest ranked States as per the NITI Aayog SDG India Index and Dashboard 2020-21 report which was released on 3rd June 2021. Therefore, he asked the department not to dwell on the report and find ways to improve the status of the education sector in the State.
To achieve the goal of quality education, he suggested various measures. He told the department to build a continuous performance evaluation system for both the teachers and students with indicators as per the indicators of the NITI Aayog and Ministry of Education, Government of India.
He directed them to identify gap analysis and plan actions accordingly to fill-up the gap in teaching and learning outcomes.
In-service teachers training, exposure training tours to the best performing States in education in India were some of the major points suggested by the Chief Secretary to improve the quality of teaching.
Similarly, he expressed that the learning process should be enhanced and upgraded as per the unprecedented changes of the present education system. He advised the use of modern technologies like Interactive Screen which will develop excitement and curiosity among the students to learn.
Commissioner Education Niharika Rai, Special Secretary UD Sachin Rana and others were present in the meeting.