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Can
DGP Abhayanand with his immense interest in
education as apparent from his work through
Super 30 institute be given a major role to make
the education in Bihar its mainstay? Can
Abhayanand try to have one primary school in
each of the police station manned by the staffs
and officers there? I hope that will make them
more responsible, clean and efficient. Can this
idea be given a trial?
Can DM of each district be encouraged to be its
PM as advised by the CM? Each DM can create an
education hub in the headquarter of his district
in a large enough campus with at least one
Science College, a Foreign Language School, one
ITI, one Engineering College, one Nursing
School, if not Medical College, and five high
schools (class VII-XII) sharing some common
facilities such as laboratories, auditorium and
playground. Can DM and SP actively facilitate
the execution of the national projects such as
Bharat Nirman or Sarv Shiksha Aviyan in their
districts?
Can the education system drop its pass courses
at graduation level? Let all deserving students
go for an honours course making them really
knowledgeable in the subjects. Others must go
for professional courses and skill development
in polytechnics and trade schools.
Can the school education up to Class XII be
affiliated to single curricula of CBSE by
abolishing state boards and redeploying its
employees in other areas such as health?
Can the CM provide all the incentives to bring
in extensions of IIT, Kanpur or Delhi in Patna?
Can the three engineering colleges in Patna,
Muzaffarpur, and Bhagalpur be upgraded with the
curricula and standard of IITs or affiliated to
some reputed foreign universities, and drop all
teachers that are dead woods?
Can each NRI Bihari wishing to help its root
adopt his village primary school or start a
trade school to see that all those who don’t go
for higher education get trained in some skills?
Can the education department prepare a book ’10
Great Sons of Bihar or BiharRatna’ giving the
life stories of Mahavir, Chanakya, Ashoka,
Vidyapati, Shershah, Veer Kunwar Singh,
Dr.Rajendra Prasad, Jagjivan Ram, JP Narayan,
and Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’?
Can the state administration start a reward for
the DM and SP of the five best performing
districts based on measurable and transparent
criteria?
Can the teachers in colleges, particularly of
science and professional colleges be awarded
special cash prizes for papers published in
reputed journals and research work? Can the
government announce and ensure those who get
selected to IITs, BITS, and NITs would be paid
scholarships amount good enough to take care of
their essential expenditure?
Can the CM organize a grand conference of the
men of all panchayats in the state and invite
the President, MS Swaminathan, Kurien, Guru
Ramdev and some other non-political
personalities to talk to them to enthuse and
involve them in the process of rural
development? Can CM get at least four or five
urban centers in different parts of the state
developed as hubs of development with all
infrastructure including an airport?
Can the Deputy CM take an initiative to start
all the closed mills by providing all the
assistance possible and in cases of unscrupulous
owners by forcing them? Can the CM assure of the
strictest actions against the ‘rangadari’
system?
Can the new management Guru Laluji get the
railway axle project at Siwan in operation and
Patna Railway Station to a world-class standard
as promised before he goes out of railway
ministry?
Can Shri Ram Vilasji get some pharma companies
set up some herbal based units in Bihar or can
M/m Meira Kumar get Sasaram some respectable
infrastructure suitable to its history to get
some tourists and related benefits for her
constituency?
Can the CM initiate the celebration of a Bihar
Day once a year where all the achievers are
rewarded publicly?
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Comments: |
This is in response to the author's
suggestion "Can each NRI Bihari
wishing to help its root adopt his
village primary school or start a
trade school to see that all those
who don’t go for higher education
get trained in some skills?".
I would like to point out that
Association for Promotion of
Creative Learning (APCL), Patna has
a scheme along the lines suggested
by the author. The scheme referred
to as "Gram Sanjivani" has been
worked out to help NRI Biharis to
adopt their villages and its concept
is as follows:
"Gram Sanjiwani is a programme of
total development of villages/sub
urban areas. It would start with
opening an educational centre for
all types of learners- young, old,
labourers, farmers, artisans and
women. Initially a school would be
opened in the village in the land
and building provided by the
villagers. The school would be run
from I to XII. It would follow the
syllabus of Creative Learning up to
class VIII which is equivalent to
CBSE syllabi with special inputs on
development of creativity,
concentration, memory, Thinking,
Reasoning, Power of observation,
Managerial abilities and emotional
management in addition to the usual
Languages- Hindi and English,
Science, Mathematics and S.St. The
subjects would be taught in the
innovative way keeping in view the
requirements of multiple
intelligence. It would also have
practical classes in mathematics,
languages, Science and Social
Sciences. It is also proposed to
have computer education right from
class I.
The medium of instruction is
proposed to be Hindi. But we propose
to teach English right from std. I.
Gradually vocational courses would
also be introduced as per need of
the area. As it is difficult to meet
the requirement of CBSE in terms of
infrastructure, it would be linked
to National Institute of Open
Schooling (NIOS), New Delhi for
certification at Xth and XIIth
level. As NIOS has facility of
credit transfer with CBSE learners
who have failed in NIOS can join the
school and get the certificate by
passing the failed subject. NIOS
also has the facility of vocational
courses, which CBSE does not have.
It also has the facility of choosing
the subject from a wide list.
Learners can directly join
Engineering, Medical, Polytechnic,
ITI, etc. The vocational courses can
help in giving a new shape to the
skill base of the villages."
The details can be seen
here.
Prof. Prabhat Ranjan,
Professor, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley),
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of
Information and Communication
Technology (DA-IICT),
Gandhinagar - 382009 (Gujarat) -
India - Sept. 29, 2006
These are very good suggestions
which if implemented will change the
face of Bihar. Most important thing
is infrastructure. First thing is
good roads connecting Patna to all
major cities. Airport in Patna needs
improvement . Other cities can wait
for some time. In All major towns
like Patna, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur
residential complexes with standby
generators, own water supply,
shopping area etc connected with
good roads should be developed which
will prevent flight of high net
worth people to other states. -
Mithilesh Kumar - Oct. 1, 2006
First, very thanks to the author for
these good suggestions. I agree with
most of the points suggested by him,
but he has also suggested that
police stations should start a
school in their premises and they
should also participate in
developing the states education
system. I feel police system should
concentrate on their primary work as
a lot has to be done to control the
crime graph. We should suggest some
measures to strengthen our education
dept. and make them accountable.
The author has also suggested for
scholarships to the students who
compete in IITs or other reputed
institutes. I feel when a student
makes it to such reputed institutes
there are a lot of banks and
financial intuitions to sponsor
them. Therefore I suggest such kind
of schemes can be started for the
students who are not very bright so
that they can also come in the
mainstream and prove themselves.
I feel education and health should
be the primary concern of the
government because healthy and
educated people will be the base of
new and developed Bihar dreamed by
all of us. - Piyush Devbrat -
Oct. 4, 2006 |
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