Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 27: Urging the State Education Department to take a leaf out of the exemplary feats of an entrepreneur who has set up a private school in a picturesque but secluded Breswana village of hilly Doda district, Advisor to the Chief Minister, Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, today mooted public-private partnership to help improve quality of education besides making it an enjoyable experience for ever-resilient school-going children.
The Advisor exuded confidence that by replicating best practices of ‘role model schools’, the standard of education is bound to rise in State-run schools giving the students much-needed leverage to perform at the cutting-edge level.
Prof. Mattoo made these remarks while heaping praise on the mother-daughter duo of Tasneem Haji and Sabah Haji who are successfully running Haji Public School, situated at a distance of nearly 165 km from here, while chairing the meeting of the Designated Committee constituted to suggest measures to improve the quality of education in Government schools as well as the literacy rate.
Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Asgar Samoon, Secretary School Education, Farooq Ahmad Shah, Secretary JK BOSE, Veena Pandita, Director School Education, Kashmir, Dr. G. N. Itoo, Director School Education, Jammu, Ravinder Singh and other senior officers of the School Education Department also attended the meeting.
Prof. Mattoo urged Secretary School Education for expediting up-gradation of Haji Public School from Middle to High level within the next two weeks. “The Education Department has much to learn from the missionary volunteerism of Haji Public School which has made schooling such a fun for its students,” he said, while emphasizing upon regular field visits by functionaries of the department to improve functioning of State-run schools in far-flung and remote areas of the State.
Secretary School Education assured the Advisor that JK BOSE will process affiliation of the school for classes 9th and 10th and in the meantime the school can provide provisional admission to students in anticipation of permission to run classes at secondary level.
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