Upset over discovering that Class 8 students of the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) of Veeraghattam mandal in Parvatipuram Manyam district have been not supplied with arithmetic textbook, supposed to have been given in November final, Principal Secretary, School Education, Praveen Prakash, has ordered a probe and appointed Project Director of ITDA Seethampeta as enquiry officer to repair accountability for the lapse.
He has additionally positioned below suspension 4 officers of the division for dereliction of responsibility, and to “prevent any possible tampering of the records during the enquiry period.”
During a shock go to to the varsity on Thursday night, Mr. Praveen Prakash discovered that the students of Class 8 have been not given Semester-II arithmetic textbook and have been made to write three evaluation assessments — Summative Assessments-I in January this 12 months, Formative Assessments-I in February and Formative Assessment-II in March — whereas Summative Assessments-II (Final) assessments have been scheduled on April 24.
“It is unfair that the students are made to write the assessment tests without providing them the textbook,” he mentioned, including that accountability could be fastened and individuals accountable could be given acceptable punishment following an enquiry.
The enquiry officer, Project Officer of ITDA Seethampeta, Kalpana Kumari, was requested to submit a report in a month.
To (*8*) Parvatipuram Manyam District Education Officer S.D.V. Ramana, Veeraghattam Mandal Education Officer P. Krishna Murthy, Parvatipuram Manyam District Assistant Girl Child Development Officer Ok. Roja Ramani and Principal of the KGBV at Veeragattam Ch. Rohini have been positioned below suspension.
Mr. Praveen Prakash made certain that the textbooks reached the students on Friday morning.
‘Adequate stock available’
“We have supplied adequate stocks of textbooks to every school. The lapse occurred at the supervision level, and we will fix it very soon,” Mr. Praveen Prakash informed The Hindu.
He mentioned the KGBVs had been established within the backward mandals to make high quality education accessible to lady youngsters from the SC, ST, OBC, Minority and beneath poverty line households, and such lax behaviour of just a few individuals would defeat the aim.
To scale up the aggressive ranges of the KGBV students, the federal government determined to introduce English as a medium of instruction and change to the CBSE syllabus from the tutorial 12 months 2023-24.
To make the students write Class 10 CBSE exams in 2025, the students of Class 8 in the tutorial 12 months 2022-23 have been made to change to the NCERT textbooks. They got bilingual textbooks and tabs loaded with Byju’s content material.
