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Bhubaneswar, Jan 7: The state government Wednesday said vocational training on technology and automobiles would be provided to secondary school students in 2015-16 academic
session.
Addressing a review meeting of block education officers (BEOs) and district education officers (DEOs), school and mass education minister Debi Prasad Mishra said, “The vocational training in secondary schools was formally announced today (Wednesday). The training will be imparted to students of one high school each in the districts from 2015-16 academic session.”
Cooperation of the education circle officers’ is highly needed for the proper implementation of the programme, Mishra added.
The training will be provided to students from Class IX to Class XII two hours everyday and 200 hours a year, said S&ME secretary Usha Padhee. Initially, the training programme would be introduced for Class IX students from the next session before it is extended to other classes.
Reviewing the implementation of Right to Education Act in the state, the secretary directed the education officials to ensure that schools having less than 10 students are temporarily closed and the students sent to nearby schools for which the government would provide transport facility.
The assets of the temporarily closed schools can be used by the local villagers for larger interest of the villagers, said Padhee.
It was also decided that the DEOs would inspect the schools to ensure that no school is left with only one teacher.
Among others, additional secretary Dasarathi Satpathy, SSA state project director Premananda Khuntia, primary education director Sibabrata Das and other senior officials of the department were
present.
