Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 5: Director School Education Simrandeep Singh along with Deputy Commissioner, Reasi Sushma Chauhan today visited Government Higher Secondary Schools, Reasi and Katra.
The visit was in the backdrop of the meeting taken by Minister of School Education Naeem Akhtar wherein he stressed all Deputy Commissioners to take special initiative in the area of school education in respective districts.
Accordingly Deputy Commissioner Reasi Sushma Chauhan informed that Girls Higher Secondary School Reasi and Government Higher Secondary School Katra will be developed as Model Schools at par with private schools.
During the joint visit today certain issues related to management and administration of the Government Higher Secondary School Katra also came to fore particularly the urgent necessity of relocating the Middle School operating under the campus of Government Higher Secondary School Katra to Middle School Kundrorian.
At present the Middle School, operating from the building of Government Higher Secondary School Katra don’t have sufficient space for its students and on the other hand Middle School Kundrorian has enough accommodation to accommodate additional 100-150 students.
Upon noticing this anomaly Director School Education along with Deputy Commissioner Reasi also visited the Middle School and issued immediate instruction for relocating the Middle School from its existing location to Middle School Kundrorian in order to ensure administration and optimum space infrastructural utilization.
Further after detailed inspection and deliberation with the Principals of both the schools and other staff wherein direction were passed to ensure activities for development of schools as Model Schools, Deputy Commissioner Reasi said that a monitoring mechanism under Assistant Commissioner Revenue Reasi and Sub Divisional Magistrate Katra has been set up to monitor the progress of the action point set out today.
Immediate repair, renovation, whitewash of both the schools, arrangements of desks, cleanliness, disposal of dead stock, general cleanliness, sanitation and provision of regular water and electricity supply to both the schools also came up for discussion.
Director School Education Simrandeep Singh, when contacted, said that while developing a Government school into a Model School various stake holders have to be involved. The most important thing is the inculcation of right attitude which as of now is badly missing and require major course corrections.
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