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File No. 13- | I 2O19-IS- 15 Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of School Education & Literacy IS-15 Section Dated the 9fiJuly, 2olg SubJect: Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan - The Meeting of the Project Approval Board {PABI held on 7th Juner 2OL9 - Circulation of Minutes. The meeting of the Project Approval Board of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan was held on 7th June, 2OL9 under the Chairmanship of Secretary (SE&L) in Conference Room No.112, C Wing, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi to consider the Annual Work Plan & Budget (AWP&B) 2Ol9-2O of Jharkhand. 2. A copy of minutes in respect of Jharkhand enclosed. nrtW (Kamal Gandhi) Under Secretary to the Govt. India Tel No. 23388254 To 1 Shri Rabindra Panwar, Secretar5r, Ministry of W & C.D. 2 Shri Heeralal Samariya, Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment. 3 Ms. Nilam Sawhney , Secretar5r, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment 4. Shri Deepak Khandekar Secretar5r, Ministry of Tribal Affairs 5. Shri Parameswaran IYer, Secretar5r, Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation, 4tr, Floor, Parlravaran Bhavan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003. 6. Shri Sailesh Secretar5r, Ministry of Minority Affairs, 11tt Floor, Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 1 10OO3 7 Ms. Shakuntala D. Gamlin, Secretar5r, Department of Empowerment of Persons With Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment 8 Dr. Punam Srivastava, Dy. Adviser (Education), NITI Aayog -2- 9 Prof. Hrushikesh SenaPatY Director, NCERT 10 Prof. N.V. Varghese, Vice Chancellor, NIEPA Bhawan, Wing II, 1 Bahadur Shah 11 Ms. Anita Karwal, Chairperson, NCTE, Hans Zafar Marg, New Delhi - 110002' 12. Prof. Nageshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 5th Floor, Chanderlok Building' 13 Ms. Geeta Narayan, Member secretary, NCPCR, Janpath, New Delhi 14. Shri Sanjay Kumar, Joint Secretary (SE-II Bureau) (EE-I) 15. Shri V. Shashank Shekhar, Joint Secretary 16 Ms. Darshana M Dabral, JS & FA, MHRD 17. Shri Sachin Sinha, Joint Secretary (AE & Coord) Primary Secondary & Higher 18 Shri Amrendra Pratap Singh, Secretary (Education), Ranchi 834004 Education, Govt. of Jharkhand, MDI Building, HEC, Dhurwa, - Jharkhand. Education Project 19. shri Uma Shankar singh, State Project Director, Jharkhand Ranchi 834OO2 council, New Co-operative Building, Shyamli colony Doranda, - JHARKHAND Copy to 1. All Director/DS in ISE Bureau 2. Shri G. Vrjay Bhaskar, Director (MDM) 3. A11 Under Secretaries in ISE Bureau 4.NIC(for..q,."ttouploadthePABMinutesonShagunPortal) Copy for information to:- 1. PPS to SecY (SE&L) 2. PPS to JS (SE.I) dqW (Kamal Gandhi) Under secretary,?Si,$Ti Jilfi? i Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of School Education and Literacy Minutes of the meeting of the Proiect Approval Board held on 7tl' June 2OL9 to consider the Annual Work Plan & Budget (AWP&B) 2OL9-20 of Samagra Shiksha for the State of fharkhand. 1. Introduction The meeting of the Project Approval Board for considering the Annual Work Plan and Budget [AWP&B) 201,9-20 for SAMAGRA SHIKSHA for the State of fharkhand was held on 7th June 2019. The list of participants who attended the meeting is attached at Annexure-L 2. Initiatives of the State Ms. Rina Ray, Secretary [SE&L) invited )harkhand to give a presentation on school education in the State. Sh. Amrendra Pratap Singh, Principal Secretary, School Education [Jharkhand) gave a presentation which included the following major points: a) School Re-organization: State had identified 14,000 schools for re-organization within the RTE Norms. This involved two field level verifications by Block and Inter District teams and a two level approval process with involvement of Public Representatives IPRI members, MLAs, MPs). A detailed guideline regarding shifting of Students, Merger of Teachers, and Consolidation of Accounts/Resources was implemented. Under this, 1000/o shifting of students from merged to host schools have been ensured by regular tracking and at present, external assessment is being conducted by IIM, Ranchi. The following are the impact of this initiative: (i) Surplus teachers' posts rationalized to improve PTR. tii) Projected savings through reduced teacher and infrastructure requirement. (iii) 713 extra schools meet RTE teachers' norms i.e., RTE compliance increased by So/o. [iv) 100/o increase in enrolment observed in several schools. b) Gyan Setu, learning enhancement programme: This is a remediation programme for enhancing learning outcomes of children. Around 30,000 schools are inspected in the State every month through e-Vidya Vahini. Under this, spot testing of approximately 2 lakh children conducted every month and L40/o improvement found in foundational Iiteracy/ numeracy in last 6 months. c) Teachers Need Assessment (TNA): By adopting the Kendriya Vidyalaya Self- Assessment Model, State has conducted Online TNA for 80,000 teachers in 20L8. Teachers were tested on English, Maths, Hindi and General Pedagogy and an assessment was also done post training. Large difference in learning levels of teachers was observed and teachers also expressed the need for focus on English and digital training modules. On the basis of the findings, new personalized training module has been developed by JCERT to train teachers on the basis of TNA Results. Page | 1 , d) Restructuring |harkhand Council of Educational Research and Training (|CERT): ICERT is instrumental in implementing some of the activities which were earlier done by fharkhand Education Project Council under SSA, Iike Assessments, Surveys, Teacher- Training, Curriculum, Syllabus, Textbook Development and Publishing. As per the MHRD Guidelines, restructuring of ICERT is being done in consultation with NCERT. Recruitment against 5 sanctioned posts of DD, AD and Secretary have been completed and a core State Resource Group has been constituted in JCERT for Resource Material Development and Programme Implementation, with 15 subject-expert teachers deputed in this SRG. e) Aakanksha: The State has taken up an initiative for providing free medical and engineering coaching programme for school students studying in classes XI and XII. Selection of meritorious students is done by Competitive exam through Jharkhand Academic Council. Students are provided free residential facilities and coaching is provided by the best offaculties, both in-house and through outsourcing. f) Zero Dropout Panchayat: The State has declared 1B2B Panchayats as Zero Dropout Panchayats covering L7,366 schools i.e., nearly 50%0. Another 500 Panchayats are also in the process of being declared Zero Dropout Panchayat after due verification. A third party social audit of these Zero Dropout Panchayats was conducted and the following are the major findings: (i) Around 50% Panchayats were found ideal Zero Dropout Panchayat. (ii) Rest 50%o were found to be very good. [iii) PRAYAS program is implemented at school for identifying and tracking Out of School Children. g) Convergence with other Departments for Infrastructure Development: The Department of School Education in the State has collaborated with the Panchayati Raj Department for Maintenance of Drinking Water and Sanitation facilities in Schools, Hand Washing Platforms and Solar Water Tanks from the 14th Finance Commission Funds. Work for drinking water and sanitation facilities have been initiated in 648 Schools of Godda district under and hand washing platforms and solar water tanks have been installed in 7486 schools, In addition, the Department has converged with the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Jharkhand Renewable Energy Development Agency for installing incinerator and Solar panels, respectively, in the 203 KGBVs ofthe State. h) Mukhyamantri Swachh Vidyalaya Puruskar: The State Government has launched "Mukhyamantri Swachh Vidyalaya Puruskar" from 2019 in collaboration with UNICEF. It is aimed to maintain the momentum generated by Swachh Vidyalaya Puruskar of the Central Government. All Government and Private school will participate in the competition and award will be given to schools at District and State level separately for rural and urban areas. The award will be given to 263 Rural Schools [One from each block) and 41 Urban Schools. Page | 2 i) E-Vidya Vahini, an integrated MIS Platform: An inter department collaborative effort of the Department of School Education, National Informatics Centre and Department of IT & E-governance. School App, Monitoring App and Web Portal & Dashboards have been developed under this. So far, 3000 tablets have been provided to BRP, CRP, Officials and 41,000 Tablets and Biometric devices have been provided to Schools. The following are the major impact of this initiative: ii) Live and accurate data for easier decision making. (ii) Increased accountability through tracking live school inspection data. (iii) Tracking learning outcomes data and Gyan Setu implementation. A soft copy of the State's presentation is available at'www. samagra.mhrd.gov.in'' 3. Review of Commitments and Expected Outcomes &Action Taken during 2018-19 The progress made in implementing the commitments and expected outcomes given by the State in 2018-L9 was reviewed and the status in respect of pending items is as under: sl. No. State will recruit headmasters in primary and upper primary schools as per the RTE norms. Recruitment of Given the significant role of Headmasters in State was requested to headmaster school Primary and Upper a in complete this process in L direct Primary schools is management, the next 6 months. recruitment