Purvottar Janajati Shiksha Samiti NE organizes academic assembly in Kohima

Zakienei Khoubve honoured with Krishna Chandra Gandhi Award 2024
KOHMA, NOVEMBER 9: The Purvottar Janajati Shiksha Samiti, North East, today organized an academic assembly on the theme “Challenges to the implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020” and Krishna Chandra Gandhi Award 2024 ceremony at Capital Convention Centre, Kohima.

The occasion was marked with conferring of Krishna Chandra Gandhi Award to Zakienei Khoubve, retired Additional Director (H) of Directorate of School Education Nagaland, in recognition of his dedicated social service and also contributing towards spreading Hindi language in the State.

As chief guest, Minister for Higher Education & Tourism, Nagaland, Temjen Imna Along, along with other dignitaries released a book on Piyong Temjen Jamir authored by State Organising Secretary Janjati Shiksha Samiti (Vidya Bharati) Nagaland, Pankaj Sinha.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister Along said education system plays pivotal role, the highest role in moulding the future of our nation.

“There is no other system that is more pivotal in reshaping the destiny of a people or the destiny of a nation, than education. The pursuit of seeking knowledge has been there from early man onwards”, he said.

Pressing for the need to implement the new National Education Policy 2020, Along said in the initial stage of the NEP 2020 there was hue and cry even in Nagaland as though the people of the State would become Hindus by implementing it.

“If there is any shortcoming, it is that we are unable to properly organize our thoughts. If there is any shortcoming, it is that we do not ask our authorities about the thinking behind this NEP 2020 policy”, he said.

In this, the Minister challenged the Department of School Education, Higher Education and the community, as well as all leaders, saying that “we should truly make sure that NEP 2020 is implemented not only in the system of papers, but in us”.

If the community is not involved, if the NGOs are not involved, if leaders are not involved in teaching and pursuing NEP, Government alone cannot do it, he said.

Along also asserted that if it doesn’t start from the school level, how will the State be able to build in higher education.

The Government’s effort is very good to provide education to all but there is need to remodel the education system for which teachers have to be forthcoming to improvise the NEP 2020, Minister Along said.

Chief speaker of the ceremony, Dr D Ramkrsihna Rao, National President of Vidya Bharati, stressed on the school to be NEP enabled and teachers to be graded under NEP.

He said that teachers’ empowerment under NEP and implementation of the policy should not be left to the Government alone but all stakeholders should own the responsibility.

Stressing on redefining the classroom transaction, Rao said previously there were limited resource for learning method but under NEP there are unlimited ways of teaching and learning.

Rao also called for integration of the learning methods as the entire thrust is on personality development initiatives for an overall holistic development.

Advisor for School Education & SCERT, Kekhriehoulie Yhome and Chief Secretary Dr J Alam also exhorted the gathering.

Secretary of Vidya Bharati NE, Dr Jagadindra Raychoudhury chaired the programme while Pankaj Sinha delivered welcome address and Assistant Secretary Vidya Bharati NE Dr Horam Aniya tendered the vote of thanks.

(Page News Service)