Patna, Aug. 12: Chief minister Nitish Kumar will soon enter classrooms.
A letter written by him on how to impart quality education would be read out to students on Teachers’ Day this year.
Though the chief minister’s letter would be addressed to teachers, students of elementary schools would also come to know what steps were being taken to better education standards.
Nitish would write the letter to teachers under the human resource development (HRD) department’s Samjho Sikho campaign, suggesting ways of teaching students in an effort to impart quality education at all 71,000 elementary schools. Bihar Education Project Council is drafting the letter.
Rajesh Bhushan, the director of the Bihar Education Project Council, told The Telegraph: “The letter will carry the chief minister’s suggestions on ways to improve education in institutes, particularly at elementary schools.”
The letter would be circulated among all the 71,000 schools by September 5, the day it would be read out to the students. It would convey how to teach different topics so that students can grasp them better.
Bhushan said: “For instance, a Class V mathematics teacher should have complete knowledge of topics like fractional number, decimals and others. Only then can he or she teach the students in a better and easier way.”
The Samjho Sikho campaign is a joint effort of the Bihar Education Project Council and Unicef. The state government is spending Rs 50 crore on the project, sources said.
Principal secretary, HRD, Anjani Kumar Singh said: “Apart from writing letters to the government teachers as part of the campaign, 38 campaign vehicles will travel through the state with the chief minister’s message of quality education.”
State HRD minister P.K. Shahi said the project aims to emphasise on quality education after the quantitative approach in NDA-I, including establishing schools, enrolment of students and construction of classrooms and toilets.
The department would also introduce a special scheme under which teachers would be regularly assessed and monitored.
