ELEMENTARY EDUCATION : : A SHORT PROFILE                                            Back
EDUCATION SCENERIO OF THE DRISTRICT AT A GLANCE

A 1. 1. In the census report of 2001. Dhubri district is placed at the bottom of the list so far literacy rate of the people of the district is concerned . The literacy rate of the people of Dhubri district is shown to be 48.2 %,which is the lowest among the district of Assam .the male literacy is 55.91 % and the female literacy is 40.04 % .the reason of backwardness in education may be enumerated as following :
1) General economic backwardness of the people :
Though primary education is made free, poor families do not send their children in some income earning works which can supplement to the total earning of the family.
2) Less Motivational Campaigns :
There is the need of change in the general mind -set of the common people from indifferent attitude towards education to pro-education attitude. This requires intensive motivation campaign.
3) Communication Difficulty including Natural Barrier :
In rural areas a school generally caters to several nearby habitations. When there is communication difficulty or some natural barrier likes a rivers, hillock or a forest between to habitations, enrolments become poor and attendance in the school gradually diminishes.
4) Less nos. of school compared to nos of learners :
No . of school s do not increased with the increase of child populations. There is always a big gap between nos. of child population and nose . Of school as per established of excepted norms .these leads to over -crowdedness in school s which ultimately result in degradation of quality education.
5) High PTR/less Nos of teacher/MG position :
With increase in enrolment ,PTR(People Teacher Ratio) goes higher as nos of teacher are not increased Correspondingly . Again due to non-replacement of teacher a MG (mother Group) situation takes place in a school. The MG situation is more detrimental to education than a high PTR situation
6) Non-Creation of new posts: proportionate to increase in Enrolment:
With increase in enrollment, section in classes have to be made, if not for high PTR, but for insufficiency of sitting space in a class room. This requires additional Teacher, but creation of new post has beens topped by the Govt. long since.
7) None appointment of teacher in vacant posts (arising out of transfer or retirement of teacher(s) :
When a teacher is transferred or retire, his/her post remain vacant for long time for different reasons. A rationalization policy, if adopted timely is only a temporary solution.

A.1.2. Existing Educational institutions is LP and UP levels :
(Table enclosed)
No. 1.

A.1.3. Venture ( unrecognized) and Private School :
Existence of some unnerved village / habitations is a real fact which is true in all districts of Assam. In Dhubri district, however, the nos unserved habitations, remote and difficult areas is comparatively higher then other districts of Assam bearing the two hill districts. The number of unserved habitation in Dhubri districts, as per survey conducted recently, is 1198 nos.

People of such enserved habitation, some times even the people of some served habitation, start some schools as there was the need of such schools in those areas. Some schools get reorganization from the Education Department after some time while some others have to wait for some indefinite time to get the reorganization.

Secondly some private schools like Sankerdev Sishu Niketen, Rasharaj Jatiya Vidyalaya Some English Medium School etc. are also growing up both urban and rural areas. These schools, too. cater to the needs of a section of a section to the child population of the district.

It is not immediately known how many school under these two categories are there in Dhubri district as no survey has been conducted so far to find out the same. But there is no denying the fact that these schools also Supplements to the educational need of the district.

A.1.4. School Management System :
A redicale change in school management system has been brought from the Time of DPEP in the district. At the grass root level village/word/Tea Garden Education Committee were formed with specific objectives like development of schools under the VEC/WEC/TGEC, preparation of VER, undertaking of Enrolment drive, regularization of irregular students, keeping watch of school Attendance including that of the teacher(s) etc. The VEC are given Rs 2000.00 per year for infrastructural development of the schools each and they are to look after the proper use of the fund. They are also to keep on eye on Proper selection and engagement of SKs and SSs from time to time.

School management committee is the second institution in the management system. Formed of guardians of the students and a doner member, if there is any, this cokkittee looks after the educational environment of the school, its development and also engage SKs and SSs per produre. The SHC is given Rs 5000.00 per year for minor repairing and contingency purpose.

At the time of DPEP there was no Gaon Panchayats. But GPs were formed on late and to involve the persons of the GPs GPEC s were formed since. Among the duties of this committee are supervising the works of the VECs and SMCs, making school wise developments plants, looking after the proper utilization of Rs 2000.00 and Rs 5000.00 to the concerned VEC and SMC respectively etc.

All these committees ensure people's participation in the management of school. Above them all are the departmental officers including persons from the DPEP/SSA who keep the bridle in their hand as the controlling and administrative boss.

A.1.5. Quality Development :
There are two institutions- the Block academic core group (BACGO at block level and the District Academic core group (DACGO) at district level, to supervise, monitor, look after class room transaction and help empower the the teachers in TLM preparation and class room transaction through practical demonstration. They also find out field level problem and issues and solve them either on the spot of after discussion of block/district level meetings as the case may be .

A.1.6. Special organisational Interventions under S.S.A.(1) Block Vigilence committee and (2) District working group :

These two bodies are advisory bodies in nature. The Block vigilance committee is to settle grievances received from different quarters at block level while the district working group is to frame guidelines for proper implementation of different programmes.
Formation of Block Vigilance Committee :

This committee is formed of 6 to 9members representation A.P.s under the Block, normally by the presidents of the A.P. s with the Local M.L.A. on the Chair.
B. Enrolment
B.1 The Enrolment Scenario :
Till a few years back, the district of Dhubri. Some of the reasons of non-enrolment have already been mentioned in A.I.I. The conditio0n did not change much even after primary education made compulsory. There had been on abrupt rise in enrolment in 1995-96 with the introduction of Mid-day-Meal Scheme. The enrolment again come down after a couple of years the Mid-day-Meal Scheme was kept in abeyance.
The whole scenario, however, started changing and enrolment started picking up with, first, DPEP interventions and then S.S.A. interventions. These interventions include :
(i) Ensuring peoples' participation in School management by involving VEC/SMC/MG/GPEC and Local NGO in School related activates including annual Enrolment Drive.
(ii) Creation of awareness among the guardians through meets with VEC?SMC?MG and teachers .These meets bring a perceptible change in the mind-set of the parents .
(iii) Opening of EGS in unserved areas.
(iv) Mainstreaming through LTBC/STBC.
(v) Regular supply of Free Text Book.
(vi) Abolition of admission/tution/examination Fee.
(vii) Facilities provided to disabled children through IED Scheme.
(viii) Most importantly, resumption if Mid-day-meal Scheme.
The present enrolment position in the district is given in the following tables :
Table No.2

C. A brief note on S.S.A

C.1. A short account till data :
DPEP was replaced by SSA in Dhubri district on 1-7-2002. The charge over did hamper in no way additional thrust in those Schemes with addition of several other new ones. Of course some reformer had been done in the administrative set-up aiming letter channelization and tagging up departmental officers of th local education department.

C.2. Schemes under S.S.A : forwards U.E.E.
(i)Bridge Courses :This Scheme is meant for children of 7-10 years age group, who either left school as drop-out or are never enrolled. Provision is made for very short(i.e 45 days duration),short (i.e.90 days duration) and long (i.e 6bmonths or more ) term Bridge Course as need of the learners .After evaluation at the end of the course ,eligible learners are being mainstreamed . In the meantime 31404 and12320 Nos. of learners were mainstreamed in provincialzed School through short terms bridge course and Long terms Bridge course respectively.

(ii)Remedial Teaching : Through this scheme slow learners I the clases are given special teaching at leisure period or in holidays to bring their standard up to the level of other normal or fast learners.

(iii)Education Guaranteed Scheme(EGS) : This is a scheme designed for unserved ,remote and difficult areas where no formal/recognised, school within a radius of 1.5 K.m is there.A study centre called "Ammar Padashli" is opened in the school village/habitation or a cluster of 2/3habitation where a minimum of 25 learners are available. A teacher(volunteer) called Siksha Mitra is engage by the local VEC against a monthly honorarium of Rs,1000.00 with all the responsible of collecting and evaluation the learners, teaching them regularly and after evaluation admitting the eligible learners in formal schools. The fund is provided by the S.S.A.
(iv) Residential Bridge Course (RBC) :
This is Scheme for the deprived children including working children and children of migrating families. In this Scheme children under the said categories are kept in a residential school for one year during which they are given education appropriate to there standard and then they are mainstreamed in formal school in the next session . In such schools teachers called Siksha Sarathi are engaged at 1:20 ratio of learners besides a caretaker who are given Rs. 1500.00 per month each. One cook and two helpers are engaged @ Rs1200.00/-per month besides a Chowkider-cum -mali at a monthly remuneration of Rs.800.00 P.M.
A Present one RBC is running at Halakura since July. 2003 while another RBC will be opened at Baladmara (Fskirganj ) very soon. Moreover sponsored by the S.S.A.,Mehila Samata of Dhubri is running a Girls R.B.C. at Raniganj, Head Quarter of Bilasipara Dev. Block Since November, 2003.
(v) Integrated Education fer Disabled Childre (IED) :
Aim of this scheme is to provide special facilities to different types of disabled children with special care by trained educational workers so that the disabled children can prosecute their studies along with other children under the same roof. For the a consultant is being engaged in each district for conducting survey and identifying disabled children in the district, categorsing the disabilities, training educational workers and implementing the scheme.
In Dhubri district 1184 disabled children are identified in 21 educational clusters out of which 623 are already admitted to formal schools. Among them 55 orthopaedically handicapped children are being provided with necessary aid materials.

C.5. Scheme under S.S.A. towards quality development :
(i) Quarterly evelutaion system:- It is a kind of progressive evaluation of the students every 3 months to find out progress of the learners. Special care through remedial teaching is taken by the teacher in the case of weak learners after every quarterly evaluation. The quarterly progress reports of the students are also sent to the guardians so that the latter can take care of their wards at home.

C.4. Schemes under SSA: towards Infrastructural Development : The primary need of Dhubri district is the development of school infrastructure which includes construction of (i) new school buildings,(ii) additional class room (s), (iii) toilet and repair both major minor of damaged and dilapidated school building and installation of drinking water facilities. The normal sources (schemes) of the Govt. are not enough to meet these demands. So, DPEP i8n the past and SSA at present have come forward with their scheme of Civil construction. Under this scheme, during the DPEP period, the following constructions were done:
(a) Construction of new building 224 Nos.
(b) Construction of Addle.Class room 25 Nos.
(c) Construction of Toilet 123 Nos.
(d) Repairing & renovation 92 Nos.
Under SSA, the works done/taken-up so fare are :

Table of civil construction - SSA

1. New Building - 118 Nos.
2. Addle. Class room - 293 Nos.
3. Repairing & renovation - 82
4.Toilet - 19 +
Moreover, every school having primary and elementary classes is being given annual infrastructure dev. Fund and fund for minor repair, about which mention has made earlier.

D. Departmental (Education) Scheme.
For the improvement of school infrastructure and also for improvement of quality of education, the education Department of the state Govt, are implementing a few schemes. These scheme include :-

D.1. PMGY Scheme :
This scheme is run by fund received from the local MLA and MRS. The fund is general utilized for construction of school building and toilet. The works done under this scheme are as following :

D. 2. Free text book scheme.
This scheme is now running by SSA on behalf of the stat Govt .
D.3. O.B.B. Scheme :
A limited fund is being released under this schema for construction of school building, proourement/ making of TLM, school furniture and appointment of stipendiary teachers.
D.4. Fund under 10th finance Commission :
This., too, is a limited fund sanctioned for installation of drinking, water facilities. The beneficiating schools are selected by the department in consultation with the local MLAs. Fund under this scheme was received till 1998-99 after which no fund was received . Total work done under this scheme were
(1) Girls common room = 15 Nos.
(2) Toilet = 101 Nos
(3) Tube Wel = 536 Nos.
D.5. Mid -day - Meal Scheme:
Under this science student unto class IV of LP School are being given 3 KG rice each per month. This scheme hales increase enrolement and retention in the schools.
D.6. Scholarship to students :
a) Spiecial schlolarship Rs 300/ - per year per student selected SC/ ST students each is being given as incentive.
b) Similarly Attendance scholarship Rs 100/- per year per student belonging to SC/ST category is also being giving.
In both these cases selection of beneficiaries is mind by the state Govt. selection body mention may be made that the SSA is also starting giving incentive certificate to student attending 30% or more days of school working days.

E. ka- srenit intervention: a special progromme.
In Assam lower primary education is or 4 years duration,i.e. from class I to iv; but in other states it is of 5years duration, i.e. from class I, to v. to keep parity with these state Education department of Assam added one more year in the primary level by advancing the age of addmition from 5years to 4years this pre -primary year is named as ka- sreni. This is practically a year where the student are giving a school - preparedness package so that nest year in class-I, the kide of ka- sreni do not feel fish out of water. Formerly children coming from early child care and education of the anganwadi centers were admitted directly in class-I of primary school; but now they are admitted in ka- sreni only.

F. Administrative set- up
F.1. administrative set -up of Elementary Education
i) District Level :
District Elementary Education officer = 1 (one) Nos.
Assistant planning officer = 1 (one) Nos. *
ii) sub- Division Level :
Deputy Inspector of schools = 3 Nos.
iii) Block Level: - Block Elementary officer = 7 Nos.
iv) Circle Level :
Sub - Inspectors of schools = 14 Nos.
F. 2 Administrative set- up SSA, Dhubri.
i) District Mission co- ordinator = 1 (one) Nos.
ii) Associate Mission co- ordinator = 1 (one) Nos
iii) Programme officer = 3 (three) Nos
iv) District Project Engineer = 1 (one) Nos
v) Junior Engineer =7 (seven) Nos

Block Level :
1) Block Resource co- coordinator = 7 (seven ) Nos.
2) Asstt. Block Resource Co-ordinator = 7 (seven ) Nos

Cluster Level :
Cluster Resource centre co-ordinator = 112 Nos.