‘Significant progress made in field of education in C’garh’
   Date :31-May-2022

Significant progress 
 
 
 
Staff Reporter
Raipur, 
Chhattisgarh Government on Monday claimed that the State has made significant progress in the field of education in the last three years despite adverse conditions created by Covid pandemic, days after the National Achievement Survey (NAS)-2021 report was released. According the NAS, Chhattisgarh performed miserably in the field of school education in the last two years and the State was put in the third place from the bottom in the list of states.
According to the State Government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had praised Virendra Bhagat, a teacher of Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh in his “Mann Ki Baat” programme. From time to time, NITI Aayog has appreciated the excellent work being done in education in the districts of Sukma, Dantewada, Jashpur etc. In Bijapur and Sukma districts, about 200 schools which were closed by the Maoists in the past have been reopened with the special efforts of the State Government. More than 25 lakh students and more than 2 lakh teachers are registered on Chhattisgarh’s online education portal ‘Padhai Tuhar Duar’ and are receiving continuous education, said the State Government.
It is worth mentioning that the educationists have put question marks on the report of the National Achievement Survey recently released by the Department of School Education, Central Government. The survey was conducted at a time when schools were closed for more than two years due to the Corona pandemic.
Some of the figures in this survey are quite startling such as Chhattisgarh has got 301 marks against the national average of 323 in linguistic skills in class III, while the national capital New Delhi has also got only 302 marks.
Similarly, Chhattisgarh has got 283 marks and Delhi only
282 marks in Mathematics as compared to the national average of 306. The achievement of the capital Delhi being so much less than the national average raises a question mark on the credibility of the survey itself. Similarly, there is a huge difference between the figures of NAS and UDISE. For example, according to the NAS, only 51 percent of the schools in Chhattisgarh have a library, while according to UDISE, 96.98 percent of the schools have a library. The Swami Atmanand Utkrisht Vidyalaya scheme of the State of Chhattisgarh has received praise everywhere. This survey of the Central Government, done at the wrong time, appears to be a survey full of wrong data.