Punjab Government: 'Mission Shat Pratishat' Launched To Achieve 100 Percent School Result

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has launched the 'Mission Shat Pratishat' for the academic year 2020-21 on November 7, 2020.

The main objective of the mission is to empower schools to achieve 100 percent results despite the COVID 19 pandemic situation.

A virtual event was conducted which connected the chief minister to teachers, students, and their parents from more than 4,000 schools and ministers, MLAs, officials, and non-teaching staff.

The chief minister announced in the event that 8,393 pre-primary school teachers posts were created. 

The education department would fill up those seats soon according to a government release, Amarinder Singh stated.

Considering the challenges faced in education because of the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, the mission is launched to strengthen the digital education infrastructure in schools through e-books, EDUSAT lectures, e-content, online classes, broadcast of lectures through television, and video lectures prepared by the teachers.

Government schools have witnessed a huge improvement in education quality and performance in the past three years. This mission will help to further boost the standards of government schools.

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Punjab Students: Performance Improvement

A National Achievement Survey held early in 2017 stated that Punjab could not perform on expected lines.

The government brought in strictness which led to "exceptional improvement" in the students' performance.

Amarinder Singh added that students have been shifting from private schools to government schools which is the greatest achievement of governments.

The government school has outperformed the private schools in board results for two successive years.

The chief minister praised the contribution of smart schools in raising the educational standards in Punjab.

A total of 19,107 schools are present in the state, out of which 6,832 are smart schools, to which another 1,467 were being added on November 7, 2020.

13,859 projectors would be provided to the remaining schools to make them smart schools, the chief minister said.

A budget of INR 100 crore will be provided this year for the digitization of schools and 2,625 tablets were distributed to students in 372 primary government schools on this occasion.

On the conclusion of the Punjabi week on November 7, Amarinder Singh directed minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa to draw out a detailed plan to promote the Punjabi language and revival of the Patiala Central Library, which was facing an acute funds shortage.

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