Vijay Garg

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Government schools need more encouragement from the government. It is also to be noted that the learning level of children in government schools in developing countries including India is quite low. More than half of the fifth grade children in Indian government schools cannot read a second grade level text. Call it a shortcoming, an anomaly or a weakness in policies, but this is the truth. The re-increasing enrollment figures in government schools in India is heartening. more success with a little more effort Can True, the real competition is still government versus private schools. But the figures after the Corona period show that the trend of the people has again turned towards government schools. The reason for this trust is also the crisis of earning and loss of accumulated capital due to long working hours and loss of livelihood. The compulsion of not being able to pay the heavy fees of the private schools repopulated the government schools. Alternative online education was arranged during covid, but the side effects were more visible. Children’s level of learning in school decreased, the same Due to online studies, the seriousness and concentration also decreased. That’s why admissions in government schools increased as soon as the closure opened. It is not right to say that the standard of government schools is bad. Barring exceptions, many schools maintain separate credentials due to better results. All the domestic and foreign research and statistics also indicate the same. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that in forty different education systems of the countries, regardless of the social and economic conditions, the students of private schools performed better than the children studying in public schools.Scored more reading points than But when the calculation was done keeping in mind the social and economic condition of the student and the school, it was found that the marks of students studying in government schools were higher than those of private schools. It is clear that government schools are not far behind in the competition. The debate of private versus government schools is not a new one, which escalated after the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE). At present, the gap between private and government schools has increased. Considering the glamor and heavy fees of private schools and comparing them with government schools That’s pointless. There was also a thought that the children of the rich study in private schools, while the children of the poor study in government schools. This myth was shown by the Delhi government by breaking it according to its intention. All government schools in Kerala and Karnataka are also better. With the introduction of ‘CM Rise School’ in Madhya Pradesh and ‘Swami Atmanand English Medium School’ in Chhattisgarh, tremendous trend of people has again increased towards government schools. Now Gujarat is also doing new and innovative experiments on the same path. Government schools with OECD this month (on 4 February 2023)Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) was signed for the students of U.P., which is based on international assessment. Mathematics and science literacy of fifteen-year-old students will be measured every three years. The ‘Mission School of Excellence’ in India will be accelerated through state-of-the-art ‘Physical, Digital and Learning Infrastructure’ in twenty thousand government schools of Gujarat. ‘Grade Appropriate Learning Outcome’ will be achieved. For students over the age of fifteen International assessment based education related to various modern needs subjects will be imparted by assessing abilities like critical thinking, problem solving and effective communication i.e. critical thinking, problem solving and effective communication. This will definitely improve the thinking, problem solving and effective communication skills of the students, which will be a milestone for the country. Gujarat is the first Indian state to implement a pact to achieve grade-appropriate learning outcomes in government schools. Government schools get more from the government Need encouragement. It is also to be noted that the learning level of children in government schools in developing countries including India is quite low. This is what the figures of Annual Status of Education Report 2018, ie ASER, the annual status-based survey on education, show. More than half of the fifth grade children in Indian government schools cannot read a second grade level text. Call it a shortcoming, an anomaly or a weakness in policies, but this is the truth. On the other hand, the ‘ASER’ survey of 2022, which took place after four years due to Corona, shows increasing enrollment.Tells a pleasant story. Data collected from 3,74,544 households in 19,060 villages in 616 districts of the country, covering 6,99,597 children in the age group of three to sixteen years, shows that enrollment in government schools has increased since 2018. The reason has been mentioned above. In 2018, the enrollment in government schools was 65.6 percent, which increased to 72.9 in 2022. It is a matter of relief that the increase in the number of government schools was not visible in any one state, but everywhere. Statistics from the Ministry of Education show that the government Enrollment of students in schools has increased from 130,931,634 in 2019-20 to 143,240,480 in 2021-2022 i.e. 1.23 crore additional students enrolled in government schools. This trend is not only to be maintained, but also to be taken forward. It is also true that with the increase in enrollment in government schools, the interest of parents towards tuition has also increased. But comparatively it is proving to be much cheaper than private schools and better than studies. Of course, the salary of teachers in government schools is good, from time to time innovation and training programs are run. Many experiments are being done for the methods of teaching and for qualitative improvement. But there is such an insolent class of government teachers who, instead of teaching, remain busy in other works. These figures will also have to be collected as to how many teachers remain absent from the classes. How many are there who engage in extra income by impressing parents by becoming private business, business, savings account agent or tutor. In many states, government teachers are given other work in bulk. Census, Cattle Census From taking photographs of those who defecate outside to the fact that it was shocking. This also affects teaching. At the same time, late arrival of teachers, early running away, drug addiction and not teaching in classes also often make headlines. This can be easily fixed. In the digital revolution and communication era, it will be very easy and convenient to keep schools under camera’s control. Technical equipment like CCTV cameras, DVRs, routers should be installed in the classrooms, so that parents, officers and public representatives can see them directly or through recording. from this You will increase strict discipline and willfulness will stop. Even in terms of expenditure, with a one-time investment less than the salary of a teacher every month, the strict guarding of artificial intelligence will bring all the chaos in government schools to ‘zero tolerance’. Now who will wake up on this, so that both the fate and intention of the government schools will change with the digital revolution? ‘.– The writer is Retired Principal Educational Columnist Malout Punjab. He can be reached at vkmalout@gmail.com

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