The Arunachal Pradesh government is considering introducing ‘Mission Shikshit Arunachal’ by 2029 under the banner of ‘Transformation of education Landscape in Arunachal Pradesh’, officials said on Wednesday.
An official of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said that a detailed comprehensive plan on ‘Mission Shikshit Arunachal’ by 2029 under the banner of ‘Transformation of education Landscape in Arunachal Pradesh’ was presented before the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday by the Department of Education. The Cabinet meeting was chaired by Chief Minister Pema Khandu.
Extensive study, research and field visits to every nook and corner of the state were carried out by the Education Department before the preparation of the plan, the official said.
He said that the Education Department envisages executing a comprehensive plan to transform the education sector in Arunachal Pradesh in a span of three years.
The three-year action plan for ‘Shikshit Arunachal’ has been broadly categorised as building a future-ready education system that ensures quality learning for every child by focusing on improving education infrastructure, optimising human resources, empowering teachers to adopt innovative, activity and experiential pedagogies through targeted capacity-building programs and strengthening competency-based learning.
The official said that the aim of the ‘Mission Shikshit’ Arunachal by 2029 is to reduce single-digit enrolment of schools and single-teacher schools to ‘zero per cent’ and ensure 100 per cent schools equipped and upgraded with adequate classrooms, hostel facilities with toilets, drinking water and electricity facilities.
Under this mission, the department envisages ensuring at least 80 per cent of government schools with internet connectivity, smart classrooms and digital learning resources. Other plans of the mission include strengthening education governance through data-driven decision-making, school monitoring and teacher accountability, strengthening teacher training institutions, DIETs and Capacity building initiatives for educators and administrators.
The proposed mission also envisaged making equitable, fair and effective distribution of human resources across all schools and institutions 100 per cent transfers through an online computerised system that ensures transparency, implements a tech-driven, data-informed forecasting system to assess and address subject-wise teacher vacancies and 100 per cent fulfilment of subject teachers.
The ‘Mission Shikshit Arunachal’ by 2029 also proposed to develop a robust merit-based structure of tenure, promotion and salary structure, with multiple levels within each teacher stage, to incentivise and recognise outstanding teachers.
