The Public Instructions Department is all set to start the two-month Chinnara Angala programme in the State from April 16, mainly towards bringing the dropouts back to school. This programme also strives to get those children who have so far not been admitted to schools.
The Public Instructions Department has already issued a circular to all schools directing them to hold Chinnara Angala programme from April 16 to June 15 (barring Sundays). The circular also mentions the programmes to be taken up during these two months.
Gulbarga Public Instructions Commiserate Director Meer Obedullah told Deccan Herald that at present, nearly 75,000 children between the age of six and 14 years are out of schools in the State.
Thereby, the Chinnara Angala programme has been designed and taken up to get these children back to school. In these two months, the children would be made to read and write, and would also be involved in non-academic activities.
The government has decided to set up Chinnara Angala centres in all such places where there are 10 or more number of children out of schools. If there are more children in the area, then two such centres would be opened.
Already, a survey to identify children out of schools in the State was taken up in February. Based on the children’s strength, the Chinnara Angala centres would be set up in the identified places.
Moreover, it has also been decided to open residential, as well as day centres. Residential centres would be opened in industrial areas, while day centres would be opened in residential areas.
At the centres, study materials such as slates, notebooks, pen and pencils, scales, chalks, crayons and other material would be given free of cost to the children. While food would be provided in the residential centres, only breakfast would be given at the day centres.
In the residential centres, children would be provided with oil, tooth-paste, tooth-brush, soap, washing soap, comb and study materials. In these two months, Rs 500 would be spent on each child in the day centres, and Rs 1,133 on each child in the residential centres.
Drinking water facilities have also been made.
After two months, based on their mental capacity, each child would be provided admission in the conventional schools from June 15. Moreover, the teachers in the respective schools would be told to take extra care of these children.
Mobile teams would also be pressed into service to see that these Chinnara Angala centres functioned properly.
The department has also decided to continue with the free mid-day meal scheme in the schools during summer holidays in all the drought affected taluks of the State.
Friday, April 13, 2007
