Punjab declares 2009-10 as year for educational reforms

Updated on: Friday, August 21, 2009

Chandigarh: The Punjab Education department has declared the current academic year 2009-10 as qualitative year to bring out revolutionary educational reforms in the schools in the state.

Among various steps for improvement in imparting quality education, inspection teams to inspect schools at district level had also been constituted. Stating this here today, a spokesman of Education.

Department Punjab said that to spare more teaching time forthe teachers during the school hours, all District Education Officers (DEOs), Block Education Officers (BEOs) and schools heads had been categorically directed to depute clerks or non-teaching staff only on the accounting jobs like collection of funds and fees from the students.

He said that it would be mandatory to call parent teachers association (PTA) meeting on the last day of every month after schools hours.

All students would be properly informed in advance two days before PTA meeting and parents would be provided monthly progress report cards.

Besides students work books would be regularly checked by the class teachers and school heads, he said.

Punjab declares 2009-10 as year for educational reforms

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