After finding that nearly 30 per cent students have not returned to schools as classroom teaching resumed after a gap of two years due to the pandemic, the Odisha government asked district collectors to attempt to reverse the alarming trend. Said. BP Sethi, Secretary, Department of School and Mass Education, in a letter to district heads, said that while analyzing the daily attendance data from schools collected by District Education Officers (DEOs), it was observed that around 70 per cent students attend classes. are taking.
On detailed analysis, it was observed that in districts such as Malkanagiri, Boudh, Gajapati, Sambalpur and Nuapada the attendance for classes 1 to 5 was below the state average, he wrote. He said that the performance of Malkanagiri, Boudh, Sambalpur and Nuapada is also poor in terms of attendance in class 6 to 8.
Sethi said that in the secondary section, the attendance in the schools of Gajapati, Bolangir, Bargarh, Sonpur, Nuapada, Cuttack, Khordha, Koraput, Ganjam, Boudh, Malkangiri, Keonjhar, Sambalpur is less than the state average. He said that the overall attendance in higher secondary classes in Gajapati, Sonepur, Baragarh, Kandhamal and Nuapada is very less, which is a matter of concern.
“The above data leads us to believe that a thorough analysis should be done to know the whereabouts of the absent students. It may happen, these students who are not attending the offline classes, may be at risk of the pandemic. Are out with their parents/lost interest in academic activities due to non-continuance of teaching program due to situation and various other reasons, which needs to be analysed.
“We have to devise a location-specific strategy to get the students back in the classroom,” Sethi told the district collectors. Noting that the department has devised a strategy to bring back the absent students, he asked the collectors to conduct a school-level survey to make a list of the students who are not attending classes.
“Junior teachers posted in schools can be sent to the homes of absent students to know the reason for their absence from the school,” he said. “These junior teachers should also motivate the students and their parents to send them to their wards,” he said. Explain the benefits of sending the school and the student to school and the steps taken by the government to provide free books, free uniforms, MDM (mid-day meal) and scholarships to the students…,” he said.
Sethi said that panchayat members and women self-help groups can also be involved in this exercise. While the Learning Recovery Plan (LRP) is being implemented by the government to help students recover from learning loss, maximum attendance of students should be ensured, he said.
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