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| Education Administration Ministers Mr. Prashant Nanda Mr. Bhagwat Behra |
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| Secretaries | Mr. R.L.Jamuda, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Secretariat, Bhubaneswar-752001 Tel. 91-674- 400202 |
Mr.A.K.Tripathi Secretary, School Education, Secretariat, Bhubaneswar-752001 Tel. 91-674-400711 |
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Area Officer in the Union Department of Secondary Education & Higher Education |
Mr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Joint Secretary to Govt. of India, Department of Elementary Education & Literacy, 109-C-Wing, Shastri Bhawan New Delhi-110001, Tel. 91-11-3387648 Fax 91-11-3381355 E-mail bhaskarchatterjee.edu@sb.nic.in |
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| Education Scenarion
Introduction Orissa was one of the last Indian territories to come under the British rule and therefore was exposed much later to the liberal education introduced by them. Moreover, Orissa is an economically backward state with conservations deep rooted in the society. Probably this is the single largest obstacle to the educational development of the state. Again, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes together constitute nearly 40 percent of state population. Districts like Malkangiri has SC & ST population to the extent of almost 80 percent. Owing to these historical and socio-economic constraints, Orissa still continues to the closeted among the educationally backward states of the country. At the same time, Orissa has always made concerted efforts to provide quality education to all. Prospects of a brighter future is evidently in the offing in view of certain major initiatives of the Government of Orissa and the Government of India. These steps, which are directed towards the reform and renewal of state’s education system, include:
Thus, Orissa is expected to steer clear the initial inertia, with unstinting support from the Union Government. Elementary Education Under the Scheme of Operation Blackboard, 10,023 posts of additional teachers in upper primary schools were sanctioned in the financial year 1998-99. Similarly, Rs. 4250.77 lakhs have been sanctioned for teaching-learning equipment to these schools in Orissa during the last two financial years. As per the guidelines issued by GOI, the procurement of equipments were supposed to be decentralised as for as possible. Involvement of Panchayti Raj institutions and strict quality control were also advised. State Government needs to expedite utilisation of funds released far teaching-learning equipment to upper primary school. Posts of additional teachers could not be created due to interim stay order of the High Court. Under the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education, mid-day meals are supposed to be provided to certain categories of schools. But the basic information regarding number of beneficiaries and number of schools covered under the programme, have not been received for last five years. Non Formal Education The aim of Non-Formal Education (NFE) Programme is to provide education to the children under the age-group of 6-14 years, who cannot attend school for entire day. They include working children, school dropouts and children in habitations without schools. The detailed break up of 23,448 NFE centres as follows:
Out of 14,618 girl’s centres, 13,022 centres have been made functional. The rest 1596 centres could not have been made functional due to non-selection of instructors for the centres. It may be noted that 17 textbooks, exclusively for NFE learners, have been developed by SCERT which are now in use by NFE centres for imparting teaching. Approximately, 210 voluntary agencies run sanctioned NFE projects in the State. But a number of complaints has been received against several voluntary agencies. 8 enquiry reports have been already sent to GOI, rest cases are now under enquiry. District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) Out of 30 districts in the state of Orissa, 8 districts are covered under DPEP. But the progress of implementation of the programme has been extremely tardy in the State. The total cumulative expenditure upto 31.03.1999 has been of the order of Rs. 32.63 crore only, which is just 14.18% of the total project cost of Rs. 230.12 crore. Several reasons may be attributed for this slow rate of progress:
The performance under DPEP scheme can be illustrated as:
Orissa has a very large number of habitations without school
facilities. So, decision has been taken at the State Government level to allow opening of
734 new primary schools in the unserved habitations as per the state norms and opening of
1764 Alternative Schooling centres in inaccessible habitations not fulfilling the criteria
for opening formal school and NFE Centres. Achievements of a few district at TLC and PLC stage may be illustrated as:
Now it has been decided to introduce
Continuing Education Programme in two districts – Ganjam and Malkangiri on
experimental basis. The other districts will be taken up after final approval of the 1st
phase districts. Government of Orissa
has sent a consolidated proposal for release of recurring grants for 13 DIETs, 6 CTE &
and 3 IASEs for the financial year 1999-2000. Meanwhile, it has already been decided to
establish 4 new DIETs in the districts of Gajapati, Rayagada, Bargarh and Puri. Detailed
information regarding availability of land, date of creation of new districts, plan and
estimates have already been submitted to GOI. It may be noted that, already there are 5
DIETs in 8 DPEP districts. The fund received for strengthening academic and physical
infrastructure of SCERT in the state has been spent for equipping the conference hall of
the directorate of TE & SCERT. Steps are being taken to purchase library books and
equipments and to construct hostel-cum- guest house of the Directorate of TE & SCERT. There are 140 madrassas in the state of Orissa. Out of these 140, only one is government madrassa, 70 are aided madrassas and the rest 69 are un-aided. In 1997-98, central grant of Rs. 1,82,400/- was received under modernisation of madrassas education for 6 madrassas . For the year 1999-2000, GOI has released Rs. 81,12,000/- under the same scheme. However, Orissa has demanded Rs. 1,05,90,000/- for upgradation of 111 madrassas. Government of Orissa
faced a peculiar problem in distributing the financial assistance sent by GOI to eminent
Sanskrit pandits under indigent circumstances. During 1997-98, Rs. 71,608/- was received
by Orissa to give assistance to 23 Sanskrit pandits. But 17 pandits could not be traced in
their given address, so the assistance meant for them could not be disbursed. Same problem
was repeated in 1999-2000. That’s why the Government of Orissa feels that they should
be consulted before sanctioning the financial assistance in the name of different pandits.
An assistance of Rs. 8.61 crore was recommended for supply of free textbooks for high school students. This amount has already been placed at the disposal of the Chief Secretary, Government of Orissa from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. UNESCO has also decided to give $ 50,000 as emergency assistance for supply of books to rest of the schools. This would cover 67 secondary are senior secondary schools. The State government is preparing a detailed work plan for supply of books. UNICEF has already started providing tarpaulins for 2200 schools and 2000 aangan wadi centres. Textbooks distribution for 13,892 schools in the 14 affected districts through books-bank has begun. British High Commission is providing assistance in supplying textbooks and school kits for primary schools and in reconstruction of schools. As a special case, a proposal has been finalised to provide teaching-learning equipment to 12,633 primary schools located in the cyclone affected districts at an approximate expenditure of Rs. 12.63 crore from Operation Blackboard scheme. Under the mid-day meal scheme, an additional allocation of Rs. 3 crore has been made for 12 districts of Orissa during November 1999. To provide for science education & library books, an amount of Rs. 21.50 crore has been sanctioned to the State. |
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late release of funds;