Himachal adjudged Best Big State in Education

Himachal Pradesh bagged Best Performing and Implementation Award in Education Sector in Big State’s Category in the India Today State of State’s Survey 2018. Vice President of India M.Venkaiah Naidu presented the award to Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj in the India Today State of State’s Conclave organized by the India Today Group at New Delhi.

The state is giving utmost importance to education sector and efforts were being made to strengthen educational institutions. He said that the state government has undertaken the task of recruiting 7000 teachers of various categories to achieve this objective. The teachers were being made accountable for learning outcomes which would further strengthen the education system.

Schemes to imrpove education level :

A new scheme, Atal Adarsh Awasiya Vidyalaya has been launched for ensuring quality education with ultra-modern facilities. 50 percent of these schools are reserved for girl students. Efforts were being made to ensure complete personality development of students along with imparting good education. To achieve this, introducing smart classes, incorporation of chess/yoga, ethical education in educational curriculum are some initiatives, the major one out of all these is sensitization about drug abuse in order to motivate youth to opt for constructive goals in life.

A new scheme Akhand Shiksha Jyoti Mere School Se Nikle Moti has been launched to invoke nostalgia and connecting alumni to roots for inspiring the students as well as channelizing for betterment of infrastructure, undertaking various social activities like promoting plantations and clearance of plastic and polythene material from the surroundings.

RUSA ( Rashtriya Uchtar Siksha Abhiyan )

RUSA places greater emphasis on the improvement of the quality of teaching-learning processes in order to produce employable and competitive graduates, post-graduates and PhDs. Spread across two plan periods (XII and XIII), the programme focuses on state higher educational institutions and draws upon the best practices from colleges and universities across the nation.

Launched in 2013, the RUSA aims at providing strategic funding to eligible state higher educational institutions. The central funding (in the ratio of 60:40 for general category states, 90:10 for special category states and 100% for union territories) is based on norms and is outcome dependent.

Funds flow from the central ministry through the state governments/union territories to the State Higher Education Councils before reaching the identified institutions. Funding to states would be made on the basis of the critical appraisal of State Higher Education Plans, which would enlist each state’s strategy to address issues of equity, access and excellence in higher education.In short, RUSA isn’t a touch-up tint of paint .It is the central government’s plan to develop every state university to its most exemplary version.

A placement cell has been established in Higher Education department and an incubation centre will be established in Noida dovetailing it with Medha Protsahan Yojana which has a provision for providing rupees one lakh assistance to students who want to appear in examinations for taking admission in medical or engineering, competitive exams, civil or allied services.

By: Pooja Sharda