HRDD-sponsored winter coaching for Board exams to begin 20 Dec

GANGTOK, 04 Dec: The Winter Coaching Camp started by the Human Resource Development Department [HRDD] for students taking the Board exams in March 2013 will commence 20 December and continue till 31 January, 2013, an HRDD official informed a press conference here today. This is the third installment of the coaching camp and every territorial constituency will have a coaching centre.
The school heads will be made the Centre Superintendents of the coaching centres. As per the requirement of the centres, a maximum of 10 teachers [GTs and PGTs] will impart coaching to the students while the centre will also have two support staff [peon or safai karmchari].
All of them will be paid a fixed honorarium. While the centre superintendents will receive Rs. 10,000, the teachers will be paid Rs. 15,000 and the support staff will get Rs. 3,000 each respectively. An amount of Rs. 5,000 will be released for contingency and stationary.
On 15 February, the respective centre superintendents will submit a report to their concerned Joint Directors, who will submit their reports to the Director [School Education] by 28 February. After the results of the examination are declared in May and June and based on the performance of the students who took the coaching classes, the department officials will then observe the impact of the coaching imparted and based on these reports further action will be taken for the next year’s coaching camp, he informed.
Meanwhile, it was further informed that the examinations for the Chief Minister’s Meritorious Scholarship Scheme [CMMSS] for the students of Class V at the district level will be held on 11 January, 2013.