Assam Government Schools

A total of 44,525 schools will be covered in the Gunotsav 2023 and 42,76,881 students from Classes 1 to 11 will be evaluated.

The Chief Minister exhorted the students to aim big and strive hard to achieve it while also underlining the role of the teachers in ensuring that the students realise their potential.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that a checklist has been prepared for the Madrasas, though the state is yet to "enter into an agreement with stakeholders, but things are moving in the right direction”.

Over 3,000 schools in Assam do not have proper toilet facilities for boys, while more than 1,600 educational institutes lack such facilities for girl students, the state government informed the assembly on Thursday.

The decision comes as several madrasas in the state came under the scanner after teachers employed in these institutions were arrested earlier this year for their alleged links with extremist groups.

The Assam government on Tuesday said it will abolish 8,000 vacant posts of permanent school teachers as a larger number of contractual faculty members are already working through the Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA).

All government and private schools and colleges falling under Diphu Municipal Board and Greater Diphu Town area will remain closed from Monday to Saturday, the order by the principal secretary, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council, said

The notice was issued on a plea challenging a Gauhati High Court judgment that observed that the madrassas being government schools wholly maintained by the state cannot be permitted to impart religious instruction.

The Ministry of Education, Department of School Education and Literacy and the School Education Department, Government of Assam signed an agreement for strengthening the selected existing schools managed by the state government and the local bodies.

"Unsuccessful students will be given the opportunity to sit for re-examination within a period of two months. From now onwards, schools are allowed to hold back a student if he or she fails in the re-examination," Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said in a tweet

The opposition on Wednesday slammed the Assam government over its slew of decisions in the education sector, and alleged that the BJP-led alliance was trying to privatise schools.

Facing backlash for introducing English as the medium of teaching for Science and Mathematics from Class 3 onwards in vernacular schools, the Assam government on Monday said only the language of the books will be changed and not the medium of the institutes.

The Assam government has decided to create a new school education department by merging two existing ones, an official notification said.

Altogether 11.52 per cent of over 45,000 schools evaluated in 2022 have made it to the top bracket in the evaluation process, ‘Gunotsav’, a decrease from 23.01 per cent in 2018 and 12.35 per cent in 2017, it said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday listed the initiatives of his government in the education sector, particularly for tea garden tribes, on Twitter, tagging Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal again.

A total of 44,525 schools will be covered in the Gunotsav 2023 and 42,76,881 students from Classes 1 to 11 will be evaluated.

The Chief Minister exhorted the students to aim big and strive hard to achieve it while also underlining the role of the teachers in ensuring that the students realise their potential.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that a checklist has been prepared for the Madrasas, though the state is yet to "enter into an agreement with stakeholders, but things are moving in the right direction”.

Over 3,000 schools in Assam do not have proper toilet facilities for boys, while more than 1,600 educational institutes lack such facilities for girl students, the state government informed the assembly on Thursday.

The decision comes as several madrasas in the state came under the scanner after teachers employed in these institutions were arrested earlier this year for their alleged links with extremist groups.

The Assam government on Tuesday said it will abolish 8,000 vacant posts of permanent school teachers as a larger number of contractual faculty members are already working through the Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA).

All government and private schools and colleges falling under Diphu Municipal Board and Greater Diphu Town area will remain closed from Monday to Saturday, the order by the principal secretary, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council, said

The notice was issued on a plea challenging a Gauhati High Court judgment that observed that the madrassas being government schools wholly maintained by the state cannot be permitted to impart religious instruction.

The Ministry of Education, Department of School Education and Literacy and the School Education Department, Government of Assam signed an agreement for strengthening the selected existing schools managed by the state government and the local bodies.

"Unsuccessful students will be given the opportunity to sit for re-examination within a period of two months. From now onwards, schools are allowed to hold back a student if he or she fails in the re-examination," Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said in a tweet

The opposition on Wednesday slammed the Assam government over its slew of decisions in the education sector, and alleged that the BJP-led alliance was trying to privatise schools.

Facing backlash for introducing English as the medium of teaching for Science and Mathematics from Class 3 onwards in vernacular schools, the Assam government on Monday said only the language of the books will be changed and not the medium of the institutes.

The Assam government has decided to create a new school education department by merging two existing ones, an official notification said.

Altogether 11.52 per cent of over 45,000 schools evaluated in 2022 have made it to the top bracket in the evaluation process, ‘Gunotsav’, a decrease from 23.01 per cent in 2018 and 12.35 per cent in 2017, it said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday listed the initiatives of his government in the education sector, particularly for tea garden tribes, on Twitter, tagging Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal again.