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Haryana plans more vocational courses in schools

Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Saturday decided to explore the possibilities of introducing vocational education courses in its senior secondary schools and extend job-oriented courses in more colleges to enable the students to get employment, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said after reviewing major projects of the State Education Department.

He disclosed that while new job-oriented courses were already being run in 23 colleges, such courses to be introduced in schools would be area specific to facilitate the students in getting employment in their respective areas.

He expressed satisfaction that the introduction of semester system had proved successful and results of the students had shown marked improvement. He called for checking the dropout rate effectively.

While reviewing the implementation of EDUSAT (education through satellite programme) in the State, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Education) R.S. Gujral said that broadcast for Arts Senior Secondary Schools had also been started from April 16 and for primary schools from May 1. In the second phase, all 9,080 primary schools and 1,232 Arts Senior Secondary Schools would be covered.

Also, 15 polytechnics are being linked with EDUSAT to start telecast from next session. Mr. Gujral said the Education Department had started a coaching programme for students of Science Senior Secondary Schools to prepare them for the All-India Engineering Entrance Exam.

And to enable the students to speak good English, soft skills training was started in six Government Colleges during the financial year 2005-06 and extended to 11 more colleges last year. Thanks to this, 16 students had got employment in IT industry, he added.

He further disclosed that the process to install computer labs in each of the 1,232 Senior Secondary Schools through HARTRON was near completion.

Mr. Hooda directed the officers to complete the building of Shiksha Sadan at Panchkula and that of the State Academies by December-end.

He also called for strengthening science laboratories in schools.

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