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AP State govt has no magic wand to solve problems
The State government has no magic wand to solve the problems faced by the school education, said K Sandhya Rani, Commissioner of School Education
Vijayawada: The State government has no magic wand to solve the problems faced by the school education, said K Sandhya Rani, Commissioner of School Education.
She was the chief guest at the sixth edition of the roundtable meeting jointly organised by the Delhi-based premium publishing house Oswaal Books and Forum for Indian Journalists on Education, Environment, Health and Agriculture (FIJEEHA) for the first time in the city on Thursday.
Prashant Jain, Managing Director of Oswaal Books, Swati Jain, Editor-in-Chief of Oswaal Books, Dr Navneet Anand, president of FIJEEHA, Dr SR Parimi, Secretary of Vikasa Educational Trust, Atluri Vijaya Babu, secretary of Nalanda Educaional Institutions, and Tulsi Prasad from AP Unaided Schools’ Management Association, were present.
Addressing the gathering, the Commissioner of School Education said that the government was facing lot of constraints in executing various programmes for the education of school children.
She said that out of 61,000 schools in the State, less than 15,000 were in private sector. “Many government schools are run with less than 30 students which had become a burden to the government,” she said and added that the government was facing a number of problems in rationalising the number of schools.
Prasanth Jain said that the children needed to be prepared to work in 2035 in the changed scenario by providing them with necessary skills. Dr SR Parimi, addressing the roundtable meeting, underlined the importance to acquire skills and adopt for change in the new environment.
Referring to the Right to Education Act, he said that that the enactment demands conformity with values in the Constitution and to strive for the all-round development of the child.
He said that education in mother tongue is very important for the students and he should have a stress-free environment. “There are two types of skills intelligent skills and academic skills,” he said and added that a child gets intelligent skills acquires naturally and academic skills should be imparted in the schools. Swati Jain, Atluri Vijaya Babu, Tulsi Prasad, Dr Navneet Anand and Prapoorna from SCERT and a number of students also spoke.
