Orientation prog for Master Trainers of Gunotsav 2022 over; training of External Evaluators to begin soon

May 1: State Level Orientation for Master Trainers on Gunotsav 2022 took pace on 29 and 30 April, 2022 at the APWD Convention & Training Centre, Guwahati, which was organised by the Education Department, Govt of Assam. The Orientation Programme was inaugurated on 29 April by state Education Minister Dr Ranoj Pegu. During the day, training was imparted to officials of 17 districts including Karimganj and Karbi Anglong.

On 30 April, the session was inaugurated by Dr Nani Gopal Mahanta, Adviser to the Chief Minister on Education. On that day, remaining 16 districts including Cachar, Hailakandi, Dima Hasao were imparted the training. The Master Trainers who represented Cachar district in the Orientation Programme in Guwahati were Rajib Roy- District Development Commissioner (DDC), Dr Debotosh Chakraborty, Assistant Professor- Assam University, Sudarshan Gupta, Assistant Professor, Radhamadhab College, Arunabha Bhattacharjee- Assistant Professor, Radhamadhab College, Abdul Wahab & Ruchira Gupta- Lecturer DIET, Udharbond; Rana Ranjan Nath, DPO (IE & ECE), SSA Cachar; Dr Bidyut Choudhury, DPO (CP & SFG), SSA Cachar, Sudip Roy, District Programme Engineer, SSA Cachar and Suraj Singh,  DMIS, MDM, SSA Cachar.

All Government/ Provincialised/ Tea Garden Management Schools of Elementary & Secondary level will be covered. The districts will be covered in three phases. Schools of each district will be distributed over three days for external evaluation. Scholastic evaluation will be for class I to IX. As the academic year has started in the month of April and Gunotsav is also scheduled in May/ June, question papers will be administered to students of next higher class. Though level of class I to IX will be assessed, students from class II to X will have to be covered. Hence, students of class II will get question paper of class I and so on for the rest of the classes. There will be both self-evaluation and external evaluation. Evaluation will be for two days for each school. On the 1st day of the evaluation, all schools will conduct self-evaluation. The external evaluation of respective school as per schedule will be done on respective date of external evaluation.

Evaluation will be done in respect of following four areas:

● Scholastic (Both Skill-Reading, Writing & Numeracy/ Basic Mathematical Operations)
● Co-scholastic
● Community Participation.
● Infrastructure

Grading will be done on the following aspects:

● Scholastic: 90%
● Co-scholastic: 5%
● Community Participation: 5%
● Infrastructure will not be considered for grading of school

This time the External Evaluators has to register themselves in on-line portal for Gunotsav and update their profile. Further, the External Evaluator has to submit confidential report through online in the Gunotsav portal. It needs mention here that the State Government of Assam has implemented ‘Gunotsav-a quality initiative’ from the academic year, 2017 for ensuring attaining grade specific learning outcomes by all children defined by NCERT. Already two rounds of Gunotsav have been conducted in all 33 districts of the state.