DE Review Meeting

A DE review meeting was held on the 13th of April 11. The meeting was chaired by the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, School and Mass Education Department and the others who attended the meeting are as follows:
IC Barda, Additional Secretary, SME Dept
BC Patnaik, Joint Secretary, SME Dept
Aparti Mallick,Joint Secretary, SME Dept 
Subrat Sarkar, State Program Manager, AIF
The following decisions were taken as part of the meeting:

• Training to start in all the remaining three centres – DPIASE Berhampur, DIET Khalikote and    DIET Dolipur, from the 2^nd of May 2011.
• Training in all the three operational centres – PMIASE Sambalpur, DIET Sambalpur and RNIASE Cuttack, to resume from the 2^nd of May 2011.
•  Performance on the DE Output Indicators, integrated as part of the annual plan for all the 104 schools to be made compulsory and a letter to this effect to be issued by the SME department.
• A letter on the roles and responsibilities of each of the stakeholder as part of the DE program, will be issued by the SME department.
•  Maintenance of the computers in all the 52 secondary schools will be carried out with immediate effect and those schools having computers which are all non-functional or of low configuration, will be replaced with upper primary schools having computers and within the same district.
• The State Level Steering Committee under the Chairmanship of the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, SME department, will meet once a quarter to take stock of the DE program. Additional Secretary, SME Department, Director Secondary Education, Director Elementary Education, Director TE and SCERT and Joint Secretary SME department, will be the other members. Joint Secretary SME department will be the convener.
• DE Working Group under the Chairmanship of the Additional Secretary, SME department, to meet on a monthly basis, for resolving routine administrative issues while at the same time taking a stock of the DE Program. Joint Secretary, SME department, and the State Program Manager, AIFT, will be the other members.
• A DE District Level Steering Committee under the Chairmanship of the respective Circle Inspectors to be constituted in all the districts. The committee will meet on a bi-monthly basis to take stock of the DE Program and the performance on the “DE Output Indicators.” The District Project Coordinator SSA, DIs, Headmasters of the DE Schools, and the AIFT monitoring personnel, will be the other members. A letter to this effect will be issued by the SME department.
• A resource group under the chairmanship of the respective headmasters will be constituted in each of the respective DE schools. This will be the lowest level planning and monitoring mechanism taking stock of the performance of the teachers on the DE output indicators, on a monthly basis. Selected teachers chosen by the respective headmasters will be the other members. Apart from taking stock of the DE program on a monthly basis, the group will also monitor the quality of teaching aids, projects developed by the teachers and the students on a monthly basis.
•  A zonal level project quality monitoring committee will be constituted in all the IASEs under the chairmanship of the respective Principal, for reviewing the quality of the projects, teaching aids, prepared by the teachers and students of the schools, under the respective zone. The committee is to meet on a bi-monthly basis. Apart from the Principal, selected teacher educators nominated by the Principal and the AIFT trainers will be the other members.
• A state level project quality monitoring committee will be constituted in SCERT. Director TE and SCERT will be the chairman of the committee and the other members will be Deputy Director Science, SCERT, Deputy Director Science, Directorate of Secondary Education and Deputy Director Pedagogy, OPEPA. The committee will meet once a quarter to review selected projects submitted by the various zonal centres.