PANJIM: Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has made a strong pitch to scrap the no detention policy, implemented as part of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) under the RTE Act in 2010 and suggested reintroducing regular exams for the students to better their academic performance.
During a presentation in New Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Parsekar opined that the system has affected the overall performance of the students.
“The existing system of promoting students by default to higher classes has affected the overall quality of education and students. Therefore, regular exams should be reintroduced to ensure learning outcomes are achieved,” he said while also claiming that the State is making regular efforts to improve the quality of school education with focus on improving learning outcomes and granting incentives on quality performance. The State will also be introducing tools for qualitative impact assessment of educational outcomes, he stated.
As per the no detention policy, no student up to Class VIII can be detained or failed and they are automatically promoted to the next class. The scheme was introduced to cut the study stress among the students; however, it received opposition from various sectors including academicians. “It has developed lackadaisical attitude among the students who find no risk of failing. There is no difference between the good and underperformed students,” said a source.
On the issue of Aadhar Cards, Parsekar informed the Centre that it has managed to detect and eliminate 1.2 lakh bogus ration card holders as around 99 percent of the State is covered under the scheme.
“Almost all our important schemes are on Aadhaar/Direct Benefit Transfer schemes. The State will bring all schemes on this platform by September. Universal coverage of all left-out infants in the age group of 0-5 years will also be done by September 2016,” a government press statement states.
In reference to intelligence sharing, he said that the State police are actively following-up on modernization of forces.
