VSK Jmu to be turning point in refining education system on modern lines: Chief Secretary

JAMMU, JANUARY 16: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today visited the Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) established inside Teachers Bhawan, Gandhi Nagar, and reviewed the functioning of the institute.

“This facility is going to further refine our education system on modern lines as envisaged under the New Education Policy-2020, maintained the Chief Secretary while speaking during his inspection visit to the VSK.

Principal Secretary, School Education Department, Project Director, Samagra Shiksha, Director, School Education, Jammu besides other concerned officers of the Education Department accompanied the Chief Secretary.

While inspecting the VSK that would soon be launched, the Chief Secretary maintained that the facility aims at improving the learning outcomes of pupils enrolled in our schools. He called it a transformative step that is in its final stage of completion.

He said that besides closely monitoring the attendance and infrastructure gaps the facility should give analytics about quality of teaching imparted and the scope of improvements that could be made by the department.

Dulloo stressed on developing both centralised and localised dashboards providing continuous and updated data insights on performance indicators of schools. He asked to empower the field level staff so as to make useful inferences from data for effective implementation of programs and schemes in vogue.

On the occasion, PD Samagra Shiksha, Rakesh Magotra, informed the Chief Secretary about the different components of the VSK established here. He informed that besides monitoring the attendance of both teachers and students it would provide analysis of results and learning outcomes of students in addition to the feedback from the students/parents. It will include dashboard about inspections conducted by different officers and their reports besides observations made about their visits. Besides, this would be a comprehensive IT based facility providing real time information about both the day to day activities happening in schools besides providing analysis about overall working of our schools’ functioning in J&K.