Rs 17.76 Cr for implementing Sarva Siksha Abhiyan

Tiruchi:Tiruchi district has been allotted Rs. 17.76 crore for implementing Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) during the current financial year.Four new centres will come up under Education Guarantee Scheme at villages or habitations from where the nearest primary school is more than one km away. These centres would be up-graded into primary schools after two years. Also, two primary schools would be up-graded into upper primary schools during this academic year, informed the SSA Additional Project Co-ordinator, Ramachandran. A sum of Rs. 2.87 crore would be spent for constructing new buildings for the seven schools, he said, adding that a substantial amount would be spent on training teachers. The amount meant for fructifying Activity Based Learning (ABL) has already been routed to the schools.

Close on the heels of training the nearly 4,000 primary school teachers in ABL methodologies, the Education Department would initiate them into Child Development Care training with a view to reinforcing vibrancy into the teaching-learning process. Block Resource Teachers would train teachers in two batches — from June 21 to 23, and between June 28 and 30.Likewise, upper primary teachers would be exposed to Activity Learning Methodology (ALM), as envisaged by the State Project Director of SSA, M.P. Vijayakumar. As part of the State-wide exercise, 12 Block Resource Teachers (BRT) each from the districts of Tiruchi, Karur and Perambalur, would undergo training along with four resource persons — two from Tiruchi and one each from Karur and Perambalur — at K.A.P. Viswanatham Higher Secondary School in the city from June 26 to 29. The BRTs have been vested with the responsibility of training the upper primary teachers in ALM by the end of July in the respective districts.

The BRTs would materialise Alternative Innovative Education for out of school children at block levels by taking a list of such children from the information available with headmasters and village administrative officers and arranging for their education. Likewise, 36 special education teachers, two per block, and four physiotherapists, one per four blocks, would undertake door-to-door campaign to identify children with special needs and bringing them into mainstream education.