Survey on secondary education

Statesman News Service

MALDA, July 8: The state education department has instructed all district inspectors of schools to conduct a ‘base line survey’ of secondary education in their respective districts. Following the instruction of the National Human Resources Development, the district inspector of schools will complete data capture format and submit it to the state by July. The state would submit detail reports of all the districts to the NHRD. The objective of this survey is to collect information of secondary and higher secondary schools for the preparation of a “scheme for universal quality and access at secondary stage”. The district inspector of schools in Malda, Mr Chinmay Sarkar has already informed all the institutions heads affiliated to the Board of Secondary Education, Madrassa board, CBSE, ICSE and the Central Schools and invited all of them to attend a workshop for the survey. The district education department will organise the workshop on this subject on 12 to 14 July at English Bazaar and on 15 July, the workshop will be held at Chanchal in the northern part of Malda district. Education officials will hand over to the head of the institutions about 25 pages data capture format and how to provide correct information for the preparation of the project which is going to be made by the NHRD for required support to the districts. The head of the institution will individually fill in the data capture format and submit it to the DI of schools as early as possible. The basic plan is development of education, officials said.The district inspector of schools, Mr Chinmay Sarkar, said that earlier teachers in primary and upper primary level casually or intentionally had provided ‘wrong information’ to make District Information System on Education (Dise). “This report was sent to the Centre without cross checking and as a result of which Malda district was identified as backward,” Mr Sarkar said.