57,000 Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation school students set to undergo assessment

PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: The education department of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has collaborated with Quality Council of India to improve the academic performance of students in its schools.
There are around 128 civic schools in the PCMC limits with an enrolment of around 57,000 students.
PCMC chief Shekhar Singh said that every student will be a priority for the civic body and the assessment is an effort to improve their academics in the upcoming academic year.
"We will make sure students performing well can take their performances to the next level. Others who may be struggling will get the best of the education through personalised attention," he said.
Singh said that the teachers will always be a priority when it comes to education and hence the administrative work burden on the teachers will be eased by hiring contractual staff.
"We are aware that most of the time due to administrative work and other duties, teachers cannot focus on teaching. We have decided to hire contractual staff for basic work like data entry and other clerical work. Teachers will also be more accountable for their students and teaching," he said.
The civic body has also decided to work on the capacity building of its teaching staff by conducting several programmes in collaboration with private education academies. Under this capacity-building initiative, science, mathematics, English, social sciences, and the environment will be given special attention.
A TOI report on December 22, last year said subject- assessment of students from Std II to V in schools will be done between December 22 and January 7 under Nipun Bharat Yojana to check their understanding levels.
The evaluation will look into the competency of students in their first language, mathematics, English, and environmental studies.
MSCERT is implementing the project in Marathi, Urdu, English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sindhi.