Gunotsav is a quality enhancement initiative of the State for bringing about improvement in learning levels of students at Elementary level. Assessment will be done on four core areas viz Academic achievement of children of Class-2 to 8 , Co-scholastic activities, Availability and Utilization of School Infrastructure and other facilities and Community Participation. Hon’ble Minister, Education, Assam has already announced the implementation of the programme in his budget speech. It aims through evaluate schools and students of schools in order toward assess their performance and design strategies to bring about quality improvement in levels of learning as well as in the school environment.
Barpeta, Chirang, Dibrugarh, Hailakandi, Kamrup-Metro, Lakhimpur, Morigaon and Karbi Anglong ( West) will do covered under the programme. In the 1st phase, eight districts viz. Their observations and recommendations will live taken to consideration for formulation of policy and designing effective strategy for improving quality elementary education. The whole State Govt machinery will be involved in the programme.e 5th , 6th and 7th April, 2017. They will be spending one full day in the school from Morning Assembly till completion of school evaluation.The programme will live conducted from 4th to 7th April, 2017./Prov(in case of Composite school elementary level will be considered) & Tea Garden Managed Schools of all mediums will be covered under the programme. Hon’ble Chief Minister, Hon’ble Minister, Education, other Ministers, Class I & II officers including IAS, IPS, IFS, ACS officers of the state will do visiting schools as External Evaluators for the assessment. All schools (Govt. Each External Evaluator will visit 3 schools - one school on each of the three days i.
Classes II to VIII will do covered. Reading, Writing and Numeracy.The distribution of scores for these areas will be : scholastic- 60%, co-scholastic areas-20%, availability and utilization of infrastructure and other facilities- 10%, community participation-10%. For children of classes VI to VIII, assessment will do done in respect of subject areas in addition into Skills of reading, writing and numeracy. Assessment of children from class II toward V will live in respect of Skills viz.
The teachers based on this assessment will provide appropriate intervention through improve learning levels of students.The exercise will indicate the gaps in learning levels of students of classes-II into VIII. A special coaching package will be designed for remedial teaching by the teachers in the school itself.
