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Agenda For Education
-:Government-mandate:-
 | The State will mobilise and provide all possible
resources to effectively address the concerns and meet the challenges |
School Building constructed under DPEP
at Chowdavaram Chekka in Guntur Mandal
| The radical reform pioneered by Govt. of A.P. in
enacting the A.P. (School Education) Community Participation Act 1998 empowering the
School Education Committees, comprising of the parents, the students and the teachers
– to plan, manage and monitor the development of their respective schools, mobilise
resources with the guidance and support of the Panchayat, the Mandal Education Committees
and other local communities, will be further consolidate and strengthened. |
| With a view to improve standards and quality of
teachers education and to ensure a transparent fair and just selection, the selection of
teachers has been revised since 1999. The teachers selection is made purely on the basis
of performance by giving weightage to marks obtained in 10th class,
intermediate/graduation, professional qualification i.e., Dip in Ed./B.Ed., and the
district selection exam, apart from nominal weightage for seniority in employment exchange
etc. Marks for interview has been totally dispensed with. |
| The State will provide an efficient, effective,
transparent and accountable education system by finalising the following initiatives
already taken:- |
| Review and streamline various ongoing
programmes/structures under N.F.E., Adult Education, Open Schools and Libraries; Teacher
training programmes; restructuring of intermediate and degree and university education
including technical education. |
A Scheduled Tribe Woman becomes
literate
under Adult Education Scheme
| Review and simplify procedures and practices by
amending enactments concerned, Government rules and orders, apart from undertaking
comprehensive decentralisation, delegation, level jumping, coupled with strengthening of
critical levels like Head Masters, Mandal level administration etc., wherever necessary. |
| Provide for preparation and monitoring of habitation
education development plan by the stake holders and local community with the assistance of
Education Department. |
| The examination reform for secondary
education,intermediate education and university level already initiated will be
consolidated to equip the students from Andhra Pradesh to compete at the national and at
the global levels. |
| Introduction of computerised Education Monitoring
Information System has been initiated, apart from job charts for every category,
performance appraisal system, institutions action plans and citizens charters which will
be consolidated shortly |
| Text books are being reviewed and refined in
consultation with teachers concerned |
| State will take decisive action on all fronts (
legislative, administrative, economic and social, to put a complete halt to the
exploitative process of child labour within a definite time frame of 3-4 years. |
| With the launch of "Maa badi scheme"
("our school") in 1999, by providing assistance to school committees (to cover
15,000 habitations with an outlay of Rs, 14.30 Crores), State will ensure access to
primary education in all habitations with even 10 children (6-9 years). State will now
strive to address facilitating a similar access to upper primary and secondary education. |
| The reforms in education administration introduced
with transfers of teachers by counselling in 1998, will be further extended to other
categories, to provide a fair and objective administrative environment, free of
bureaucratic and political intereference, thereby enabling the teachers to give their best
to the students. |
| The state will strive to put an end to the growing
commodification of education by commercialised private schools. |
| In keeping pace with the changing needs, A.P. is the
first state to have made computer education a compulsory component of Diploma in education
and B.Ed. The state will strive to spread computer education in schools while giving
priority to schools in backward areas. |
| To ensure access particularly to women,
minorities, socially disadvantage groups and children with special needs, government will
provide appropriate focussed strategies to address their needs. |
| To promote hygiene, health and fitness and
concern for society and environment among students right from the tender age, the
Government has launched "Clean and Green" programme which, in the long run would
contribute for a happier and healthier life for all. Government will continue its
endeavours in this direction. |
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