Chandigarh, July 15
Krishan Kumar, an IAS officer, who as deputy commissioner had tried to correct demographic profile of Nawanshahr by launching a campaign against female foeticide, is now all set to change the profile of primary education in government schools of the state.
He yesterday launched the “Paro Punjab” campaign, focusing on improving education system and infrastructure in government primary schools. It appears “Taare Zameen Par,” a film that awakened educationists across the country, has acted as the motivating factor for Krishan Kumar. Without improving education at primary level, one can not think of producing students fit for jobs in the highly competitive national and international job market, said Krishan Kumar.
“We have planned to prepare the profile of every student at every level. Teachers posted in government schools will be trained for this purpose. We have prepared 850 master trainers to train further all teachers in government primary schools in this regard,” said Krishan Kumar. “In fact, the training of teachers began on Monday at all district headquarters. It will continue till July 26,” he added. For many years, the number of students in government primary schools has been dwindling. Dropout rate is also very high.
Admitting that education at the primary level is in very poor shape, Krishan Kumar said his focus would be to improve the standard at the primary level though scientific method. “We will record all weak as well as strong points of each student from class II to IV. Then efforts will be made to tackle the weak points,” said Krishan Kumar.
For instance, some students are very good in mathematics, others in languages and some take too much time to comprehend sentences and some take no time. Some students face problems in recognising letters and others do not. He said after identifying problems faced by students, their groups would be formed and each group would be helped to tackle the problems .
“Our system is suffering from monitoring level. But I want to make it a regular feature of the education system,” said Kumar. Those given the job to inspect schools would be interacting with students, preparing reports and feeding the data of performance of each school on the computer.
