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Wednesday, Feb 09, 2005

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Education Department gets Golden Icon award

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, FEB. 8. The Directorate of Education of the Delhi Government has been awarded the prestigious "Golden Icon Award'' for exemplary leadership and ICT achievement during 2004. The award was received by a representative of the Department at a function held at Bhubaneswar in Orissa on February 3.

Giving this information here, the Education Minister, Arvinder Singh Lovely, informed that the award had been instituted by the Union Government's Department of Information Technology and Administrative Reforms and was presented at the 8th National E-Governance Conference held in Orissa. The award was today handed over to Mr. Lovely by the officials of the Department at a simple but impressive ceremony in his office. The Education Minister later presented the award to the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit. Congratulating the officials of the Department for working hard to win the award and place Delhi in the top position, Mr. Lovely said the award was itself an indication of the excellent work done by the Sheila Dikshit Government in the field of education in recent years.

The Education Minister said under the leadership of the Chief Minister the Department had got a new direction and had worked toward full computerisation of the government and aided schools last year. Stating that a new direction was being given to education through use of information technology, Mr. Lovely indicated that extensive use of IT for official purposes had led to improvement in efficient and induction of professionalism among the officials and the teachers. Lakhs of students had been provided the environment and facilities at par with those available in public schools to ensure that they do not lag behind when they come across open competition. Asserting that it was the new buzzword for the future, Mr. Lovely said apart from putting the system of online attendance of teachers, the Department was also putting in place a system through which the daily performance of the students will be available at the click of the mouse. This system would help to improve the individual performance of the students and also lead to bringing out the deficiencies and areas of improvement.

It was also for the first time in the country that work was being done towards formulating a sports policy for schools in the Capital. Already the Government has undertaken discussions with experts and professionals.

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