Assam govt awards best performing schools with incentives

The Assam government has awarded the best performing schools in the state education department’s yearly evaluation programme ‘Gunotsav’. A total of 4,841 schools managed to secure A+ grades in the last Gunotsav evaluation.

Each of these schools have been awarded a cash incentive of Rs 25,000. Attending a programme related to this on Sunday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said this year’s Gunotsav Award is being handed over to the recipient schools today to correlate with the observance of December 25 of every year as “Good Governance Day” all throughout the country as a mark of respect towards the late former prime Minister Atal Vihari Vajpayee.

He spoke about the role of Vajpayee in the launch of Sarva Shikhsa Abhiyan during his tenure as the Prime Minister. “This was a manifestation of the importance Vajpayee ji had accorded to the spread of quality education among all sections of the society,” Chief Minister said. Sarma, referring to Gunotsav as an alternative method to measure the quality of education in schools over the traditional system of written examination, termed it a process of continuous evaluation that enables the stakeholders to focus on the strong as well as the weak points as far as imparting of education is concerned.