NEW DELHI: Months after a review by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) found that the human resource development (HRD) ministry was lagging behind on several deliverables, a review of the ministry by Niti Aayog has found that not much has changed, especially in the department of school education.
The Aayog has found that the ministry is either running behind schedule or hasn’t even started on 15 of the 32 actionable points for school education. Only three on the to-do list have been completed, while 22 actionable points are still work in progress. The department of higher education — finally past its tussles with the PMO — has done much better. It has completed two of the five on its to-do list and has shown work in progress on one count, EThas learnt.
A status report on the education sector that was discussed at the meeting highlighted poor action on various ‘actionable steps’ like framing of minimum grade-wise learning goals for classes 1 to 8 that are to be displayed on school boards, expediting decision on the much-debated ‘no-detention policy’ and a number of specifics on teachers’ education. The department of school education was found to have missed the deadline on areas like student evaluation of teachers, technology-enabled service training of teachers, examining possibilities of an all-India teacher education service, technology-backed remedial training for untrained teachers and training of headmasters and so on.
Many other action points for the department of school education remain work-in-progress even though they are close to deadlines, Niti Aayog sources told E ..
