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| Ministry of Education issues guidelines for identification, admission, and continued education of migrant children |
NEW DELHI (Lampe):- In order to mitigate the impact of challenges thrown by the COVID-19 pandemic for
out of school children, it was felt necessary for every State/UT to devise a proper strategy for preventing increased dropouts, lower enrolments, loss of
learning and deterioration in the gains made in providing universal access,
quality and equity in recent years.
Thus
the Ministry of Education had issued guidelines for identification, admission
and continued education of migrant children.
In
order to ensure that school-going children have access to education with
quality and equity and to minimize the impact of the pandemic on school
education across the country, the Ministry of Education has prepared and issued
detailed guidelines on steps to be taken by the States and UTs during school
closure and when the school re-open.
- Continuation of non-residential training for identified Out School children through volunteers, local teachers, and community participation.
- Continuation of home-based education for CWSN children through Volunteers/ Special Educators.
- States and UTs to carry out proper identification of OoSC for 6 to 18 years age group through a comprehensive door to door survey and prepare an action plan for their enrolment
- Enrolment drives may be undertaken at the beginning of the academic year such as Praveshotsav, School Chalo Abhiyan etc.
- Undertake awareness generation among parents and community for enrolling and attendance of children
- Create awareness on practicing 3 Corona appropriate behaviors – wear a mask, six-feet distance and washing hands with soap for which IEC material shared on 06.11.2020 with the States & UTs.
- Students to be provided support including counseling, large scale awareness & targeted home visits
- Using Manodarpan web portal and tele-counseling number for counseling services and psycho-social support.
- Distribution of educational material and resources, supplementary graded material, workshops, worksheets, etc to support home-based education
- Exploring the option of a classroom on wheels and classes in small groups at village level
- Increasing the access of children to online/digital resources, TV Radio etc. to reduce learning loss
- Ensuring easy and timely access to the provisions of uniforms, textbooks and MDM
- Timely disbursement of stipend to enrolled CWSN girls through DBT
- Strengthening of Child protection mechanism at a local level
- Preparation and running of School readiness modules/Bridge course for an initial period when the schools re-open so that they can adjust to the school environment and do not feel stressed or left-out.
- Identification of students across different grades based on their learning levels
- Relaxing detention norms to prevent drop out this year.
- Ensuring reading with comprehension and numeracy skills by encouraging children to read books beyond the syllabus and creative writing & problem-solving.
- Large-scale remedial programs/Learning Enhancement programs to mitigate learning loss and inequality.
- Effective utilization of the online NISHTHA training modules and online training module for Corona responsive behavior to be launched on DIKSHA portal soon.
- Use of alternative Academic Calendar prepared by NCERT for joyful engagement of children in learning.
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