Thursday, August 2, 2012

Block level review coordination meeting of school heads at BAC, Passingdang


HMs asked to also discuss school related problems in gram sabhas

GANGTOK, 27 July: A block level co-ordination meeting was held on 25/07/12 at   BAC, Passingdang ,                                                     with HRDD officials and head of the respective schools under the chairmanship of BDO, Passingdang  BAC  Dr. S.R Lepcha.  The meeting was attended by Dy. Director HRDD North, R.N Singh, A.D  HRDD Passingdang  BAC, N.T Lepcha, AD, R. Dong, AEO, Kalzang. G. Bhutia , Sr Accountant  HRDD(N) D.T  Bhutia, head of the all schools and office staffs.
The meeting started with the welcome speech by R. Dong, AEO, HRDD, BAC Passingdang. One of the main issue was to inform the school heads regarding the RTE Questionnaires and on how to fill them. AD, Passingdang gave a brief regarding the format provided by SSA. He also informed that all the schools representatives should be careful while filling up the forms. It was urged that all Headmasters provide factual information so that there was no complication in future. Similarly AEO, Mr.Dong requested heads of the respective institutions to keep an Mid Day Meal attendance register, stock register and balance registers; these, he stated should be maintained properly with up to date records and presented  whenever inquired and investigated. Further, he added that all the concerned Headmasters should check the MDM regularly to make sure that it is nutritious  and beneficial to health of the students.
Dy . Director HRDD (N) stressed upon quality teaching and asked the Headmasters to be strict in their  school administration .  He also urged them to take prior permission of the concerned authority while taking leave; any such violation would be treated as leave without pay.                                      
APC (N) Mr. Kalzang Gyatso Bhutia   provided information regarding the SSA and RMSA funds. He also explained the guidelines for the fund utilization.  During the discussion the present Headmasters placed a number of problems they were facing. Dy . Director assured to place the school problems to the higher authority for solution. In the course of discussion it was also impressed upon the HMs that they should keep a healthy relationship with the panchayats and guardians which would help the school to solve much of the problems they were facing.    
Finally BDO, Passingdang in his address informed  that construction works and maintenance works of schools done by SMCS were  not meeting the standards. He pointed out that construction work of Lingdong S.S should be hastened as it was affecting the smooth functioning of the school as a whole . He urged Dy. Director to send all the copies of every correspondence to the BAC regarding the activities, taking place so that he could extend possible help for the same.  He also informed that the HMs could place a number of their demands including those such as toilet construction, drinking water problems to the concerned GPU where such issues could be placed before gram sabha and be resolved through various schemes like MGNREGA etc.
At the end of the meeting, SSA grants, such as maintenance grants and teachers grants were handed over to headmasters through the BDO , Passingdang, BAC.  The day long co- ordination meeting concluded with the vote of thanks by R. Ongmu Lepcha , the Resource Teacher of Inclusive Education under BAC, Passingdang, Dzongu  block.    

1 comment:

  1. The Public and Panchayats thanks entire team of Now daily news, Tadong Gangtok for being part of every development that takes place in the Dzongu region of North Sikkim.

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