Ukhrul boast of first SSA Consultant in State
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Ukhrul, November 04 2012:
Amidst the raging issues over imparting quality education in the district by eliminating the unwanted practices of sub letting teachers, Ukhrul also boast of being the first District in Manipur to have SSA consultant.
Considering the need to have an SSA Consultant in the District to sensitize the many ills plaguing the education sector in the District, a twelve member team headed by a Consultant was constituted this year.
Since its inception, the Consultant team has been able to streamline many teachers and students towards the national objective of Sarva Shiksha Abhyan in the District, District Program Manager(DPM) Ringshan Shaiza remarked while speaking as resource person on implementation of SSA in Ukhrul District on the concluding day of Bharat Nirman campaign in Ukhrul district yesterday.
Ringshan informed that the Consultant team has visited more than fifty percent of schools in the District to take stock of the facilities being provided by SSA viz.
uniforms, writing material etc.
At the same time they are checking the presence of sub letting teachers in government schools.
Elaborating the achievement of SSA in Ukhrul District, the DPM said that Ukhrul District has make remarkable achievement in the field of Girls education, Community Mobilization, Residential Bride Course and Civil works.
The DPM, however, regretted the inability to implement research and Monitoring works and Distance education for teachers due to certain technical difficulties in the District.
The Program of Early Childhood Care and Education for children and nursing mothers are in the offing in convergence with ICDS, said Ringshan Shaiza.
SSA in Ukhrul District is implemented with the assistance of Autonomous District Council and Department of Education(s).
Going by the data there are more than 2000 government teachers and more than 29,000 government schools in the District.