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Gunotsav | Elementary Education | Government Of Assam, India Gunotsav: The RTE Act, 2009 provides the Constitutional Right to Education to every child aged between 6 to 14 years thereby guaranteeing the Right to Elementary Education.Section 29 of the Right to Education Act, 2009 mandates that every child in India aged 6 to 14 years has the constitutional right to receive quality, inclusive and child friendly education.

• Drawing from the mandate of the Act, increased focus is being laid on quality education at elementary level which is the foundation of learning among children.
• Over the years, various initiatives have been taken for improved Learning Outcomes.
• These include development of textbook in the line of NCF, 2005, implementation of activity based learning, providing training to teachers, engagement of qualified teachers etc.

Now, there is an urgent need to focus on assessing the learning outcomes which would help in identifying the learning gaps objectively and for providing necessary remedial measures. Quality of education is a major concern of the state Government. In order to achieve the same the state Government has planned to implement ‘Gunotsav-celebrating quality’ from the academic year,2017.

Ensuring quality elementary education with improved learning outcome.

Key Features of Gunotsav:

1. To create a spirit of a high priority to quality education among all stakeholders.
2. Ministers, IAS,IPS,IFS officers, Class–I & II officers will visit schools and take part in the process of evaluation.
3. Actionable feedback of learning gaps, common errors, misconceptions, strong & weak competencies will be taken into consideration for policy formulation.

Who will be the External Evaluators:

External assessment will be done by Hon’ble Chief Minister, Education Minister, Ministers of other Departments, Sr. Officers including IAS, IPS, IFS,other Grade-I & II officers, faculty of University, College, etc.

Why External Evaluation/Evaluators?

1. Impartial evaluation.
2. Motivation and encouragement.

• Need of Gunotsav in Assam :
• The National Policy on Education, 1986 has also stated that Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation should incorporate both scholastic and non-scholastic aspects of evaluation spread over the total span of instructional time.
• The National Curriculum Framework, 2005 (NCF-2005) proposed examination reforms to reduce stress on children and make evaluation comprehensive and regular.

CCE – The present evaluation system is being done in the line of CCE. CCE is a system of keeping continuous track of the growth and development of a child in respect of curricular and co curricular areas.

1. As per the mandate of the Right to Education Act,2009, more focus has been laid on quality education at elementary level which is the foundation of learning among children.
2. Sustainable Development Goal- No :4 (SDG) has also emphasized on ensuring equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes by 2030.
3. Therefore, quality is the thrust area, improvement which needs concerted effort from all end.

The State Govt. of Assam is seriously concerned about ensuring quality elementary education to all children. The State Govt has taken the decision to implement Gunotsav in the line Gujarat from academic year, 2017. Hon’ble Minister Education has already announced the implementation of the programme in his budget speech.

1. The 1 st phase of Gunotsav was conducted from 4th to 7th April, 2017.
2. In the 1st phase, eight districts viz.
3. Barpeta, Chirang, Dibrugarh, Hailakandi, Kamrup-Metro, Lakhimpur, Morigaon and Karbi Anglong ( West) were covered,
4. All schools (Govt./Prov(in case of Composite school elementary level were considered) & Tea Garden Managed Schools of all mediums were covered under the programme.

The Assessment was done on four core areas viz Academic achievement of children of Class-2 to 8, Co-scholastic activities, Availability and Utilization of School Infrastructure and other facilities and Community Participation. Each External Evaluator have visited 3 schools – one school on each of the three days i.e.5th, 6th and 7th April, 2017.

1. They spent the whole day in the school from Morning Assembly till completion of school evaluation.
2. Their observations and recommendations will be taken into consideration for formulation of policy and designing effective strategy for improving the quality of elementary education.
3. The second phase of Gunotsav conducted from 19th to 22nd September, 2017 and will cover 12 districts of Assam.

The programme was expected to bring about the following results :

1. Tracking academic performance of each child across all subjects throughout the elementary cycle.
2. Indication of learning gaps of child
3. Designing and implementing remedial strategies based on the identified learning gaps.
4. Enhancing learning of students through timely regular feedback and support and bring about improved learning outcomes.
5. Increase retention rate and reduce dropout rate.
6. Generation of awareness and greater participation among all stakeholders.
7. Ensuring better school functioning.

: Gunotsav | Elementary Education | Government Of Assam, India
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What are the initiatives taken by the government to improve elementary education in India?

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is implemented as India’s main Programme for universalizing elementary education. Its overall goals include universal access and retention, bridging of gender and social category gaps in education and enhancement of learning levels of children.
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What is Gunotsav in Assam?

Gunotsav, is an initiative of the State Government focuses mainly on assessment of learning outcomes of children for identifying learning gaps and subsequently designing remedial measures for improvement. Gunotsav, 2022 has been scheduled in the month of May and June, 2022 in three phases.
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What is Gunotsav in Gujarat?

Gunotsav is a quality improvement programme where external evaluators are deputed to the schools for conducting external evaluations of students. – By : | 11 May 2022 5:00 AM GMT Gunin Borah (The writer is from the Faculty of Geography, Biswanath College, Chariali and can be reached at Email ID: [email protected]) Gunotsav is a quality improvement programme where external evaluators are deputed to the schools for conducting external evaluations of students.

Gunotsav means ‘the celebrating quality in schools’. It is originally a Gujarat government initiative and was adopted by the Government of Assam in the year 2017. Gunotsav was established in the year 2001 by the Government of Gujarat. It is an educational initiative which believed in making a difference in education through personalized learning and ensuring that students.

To ensure quality education of students in Government schools, and to increase awareness for quality in the education community, the government carries out a gunotsav programme in schools, assessed every year since 2009 in Gujarat state. It is time for the State Government to take necessary measures in schools based on the reports of the external evaluator, both in academics and infrastructure.

• The Education Department, Assam is conducting the Gunotsav-2022 programme in three phases across the state from May 11, 2022.
• The first phase will be from May 11, the second phase on May 22 and the third phase on June 1, 2022.
• All the Government, provincialized and Tea garden management schools of elementary and secondary-level will be covered in this Gunotsav programme.

All districts of Assam will be covered in three phases. Schools in each district will be distributed over three days for external evaluation. According to officials of the Assam Sarba Siksha Abhiyan Mission, the scholastic evaluation will be for class-I to IX standards.

• Though the level of class-I to IX will be assessed, students from II to X will be covered.
• Hence students of class II will get question papers from class-I and so on for the rest of the classes.
• There will be both self-evaluation and external evaluation.
• Evaluation will be two days for each school.
• On the first day of evaluation, all schools will conduct a self-evaluation.

The external evaluation of the respective schools as per schedule will be done on the respective date of external evaluation. Gunotsav has been implemented to improve the quality of education and to provide guidance to teachers and schools. Gunotsav is also a way to analyse the inputs of the school management committee in school development plans, as it is envisioned that the community will take ownership of schools, which in turn will increase community participation.

1. In Gunotsav, 70 per cent of weightage is on educational aspects and 30 per cent on the physical infrastructure of the school, as it is important for a healthy school environment.
2. Based on the result of the evaluation, the teachers and schools make further efforts for improvement.
3. Gunotsav is a quality enhancement initiative of the state for bringing about improvement in the learning levels of students at elementary levels.

The assessment is done on four core areas, that is academic achievement of children of class II to class VIII, co-scholastic activities availability and utilization of school infrastructure, and other facilities, and community participation. It is time for the State Government to take initiative in the infrastructure and academic part of the school, based on the evaluation of the external evaluation report.

• Gunotsav aims at evaluating schools and students to assess their performance and design strategies to bring about quality improvement in levels of learning as well as in the school environment.
• The exercise will indicate the gaps in learning levels of the students of classes- II to VIII.
• The teachers based on this assessment will provide appropriate interventions to improve the learning levels of students.

A special coaching package will be designed for remedial teaching by the teachers in the school itself. The following are some of the beneficial points of Gunotsav in the government school environment.1) Tracking the academic performance of each of the children across all the subjects throughout the elementary cycle.2) It will indicate the learning gaps of the school child.3) Gunotsav will help in designing and implementing remedial strategies based on the identified learning gaps.4) Enhancing the learning of students through timely regular feedback and support and bringing about improved learning outcomes.5) It increases the retention rate and reduces the dropout rate of the school child.6) Generation of awareness and greater participation among all the stakeholders.7) It will ensure better school functioning.

• Gunotsav is a school evaluation process borrowed by the Assam government from Gujarat.
• The entire State government machinery is mobilized to evaluate the quality of school education and to grade the teachers and students of the school.
• Gunotsav has informed us about the academic and infrastructure of the government school in our state.

Each of the government schools is evaluated based on the assessment. The programme will be successful if the government takes the necessary steps for remedial measures based on the report of the external evaluation. It is one of the ways, on the part of the state government, to take remedial measures for the government schools in Assam.
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Which campaign is launched by government of Gujarat to evaluate quality of primary education and to grade teachers and schools?

For more than 20 years, the keywords and phrases driving school education in India have been “learning levels”, “quality”, “competencies” and “outcomes”. For almost as long, government school students have been tested to establish how they measure up, through the National Achievement Surveys and later through State Learning Achievement Surveys.

From the mid-2000s, the Aser Centre – which grew out of the educational non-profit Pratham – started conducting its annual learning achievement surveys, published in the form of the Annual Status of Education Report or Aser report. This assessment, of mostly poor, rural elementary school children, drew public attention to low learning levels in this demographic across the country.

Clearly irked by Gujarat’s poor performance in the Aser surveys and unhappy with its methodology, the Gujarat government settled on a new assessment and school ratings system in 2009. It was called Gunotsav – a “festival of quality”. Billed as the brainchild of Narendra Modi, then the Gujarat chief minister, it was designed as an appraisal system for government-funded schools to ensure each school got what it needed in order to improve quality – from bricks and mortar to specific types of teacher training.

• It was meant to be a means by which schools could pinpoint their own shortcomings and find ways to fix them.
• Schools are currently classified in ascending order from D to A+, based on an annual assessment of their academic performance, co-curricular activities, community participation and available infrastructure.

Teachers are also graded, and at least initially only those with A or A+ grades were eligible to be nominated for teachers’ awards. Gunotsav was not meant to be a permanent feature on the school calendar, according to RP Gupta, the state’s principal secretary of school education in 2009, currently at the Niti Aayog.

1. It was just the first step towards creating the office of an independent evaluator, much like the UK’s Office for Standards in Education or Ofsted, whose remit extends to teachers’ education.
2. Gupta said that a government order to that effect was passed in 2011.
3. Around the same time time, Pragna – the state’s activity based learning programme – was also being introduced in schools.

Its central premise is to allow children to learn at their own pace, moving ahead only once they have actually learnt a concept. An annual assessment militates against learning at one’s own pace. But Gupta said that it was hoped that eventually all academic assessments would be “through Pragna”, which, in ideal conditions, has a system of continuous assessment built into its step-by-step learning process.
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What is the Government of India has flagship programme for achievement of universalization of elementary education?

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan | Government of India, All India Council for Technical Education.
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Which of the following state has started educational award scheme?

Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar, announced a free education scheme in state, to boost the level of education in the state.
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When did Gunotsav start in Assam?

Gunotsav | Elementary Education | Government Of Assam, India Gunotsav: The RTE Act, 2009 provides the Constitutional Right to Education to every child aged between 6 to 14 years thereby guaranteeing the Right to Elementary Education.Section 29 of the Right to Education Act, 2009 mandates that every child in India aged 6 to 14 years has the constitutional right to receive quality, inclusive and child friendly education.

Drawing from the mandate of the Act, increased focus is being laid on quality education at elementary level which is the foundation of learning among children. Over the years, various initiatives have been taken for improved Learning Outcomes. These include development of textbook in the line of NCF, 2005, implementation of activity based learning, providing training to teachers, engagement of qualified teachers etc.

Now, there is an urgent need to focus on assessing the learning outcomes which would help in identifying the learning gaps objectively and for providing necessary remedial measures. Quality of education is a major concern of the state Government. In order to achieve the same the state Government has planned to implement ‘Gunotsav-celebrating quality’ from the academic year,2017.

Ensuring quality elementary education with improved learning outcome.

Key Features of Gunotsav:

1. To create a spirit of a high priority to quality education among all stakeholders.
2. Ministers, IAS,IPS,IFS officers, Class–I & II officers will visit schools and take part in the process of evaluation.
3. Actionable feedback of learning gaps, common errors, misconceptions, strong & weak competencies will be taken into consideration for policy formulation.

Who will be the External Evaluators:

External assessment will be done by Hon’ble Chief Minister, Education Minister, Ministers of other Departments, Sr. Officers including IAS, IPS, IFS,other Grade-I & II officers, faculty of University, College, etc.

Why External Evaluation/Evaluators?

1. Impartial evaluation.
2. Motivation and encouragement.

• Need of Gunotsav in Assam :
• The National Policy on Education, 1986 has also stated that Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation should incorporate both scholastic and non-scholastic aspects of evaluation spread over the total span of instructional time.
• The National Curriculum Framework, 2005 (NCF-2005) proposed examination reforms to reduce stress on children and make evaluation comprehensive and regular.

CCE – The present evaluation system is being done in the line of CCE. CCE is a system of keeping continuous track of the growth and development of a child in respect of curricular and co curricular areas.

1. As per the mandate of the Right to Education Act,2009, more focus has been laid on quality education at elementary level which is the foundation of learning among children.
2. Sustainable Development Goal- No :4 (SDG) has also emphasized on ensuring equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes by 2030.
3. Therefore, quality is the thrust area, improvement which needs concerted effort from all end.

The State Govt. of Assam is seriously concerned about ensuring quality elementary education to all children. The State Govt has taken the decision to implement Gunotsav in the line Gujarat from academic year, 2017. Hon’ble Minister Education has already announced the implementation of the programme in his budget speech.

1. The 1 st phase of Gunotsav was conducted from 4th to 7th April, 2017.
2. In the 1st phase, eight districts viz.
3. Barpeta, Chirang, Dibrugarh, Hailakandi, Kamrup-Metro, Lakhimpur, Morigaon and Karbi Anglong ( West) were covered,
4. All schools (Govt./Prov(in case of Composite school elementary level were considered) & Tea Garden Managed Schools of all mediums were covered under the programme.

The Assessment was done on four core areas viz Academic achievement of children of Class-2 to 8, Co-scholastic activities, Availability and Utilization of School Infrastructure and other facilities and Community Participation. Each External Evaluator have visited 3 schools – one school on each of the three days i.e.5th, 6th and 7th April, 2017.

They spent the whole day in the school from Morning Assembly till completion of school evaluation. Their observations and recommendations will be taken into consideration for formulation of policy and designing effective strategy for improving the quality of elementary education. The second phase of Gunotsav conducted from 19th to 22nd September, 2017 and will cover 12 districts of Assam.

The programme was expected to bring about the following results :

1. Tracking academic performance of each child across all subjects throughout the elementary cycle.
2. Indication of learning gaps of child
3. Designing and implementing remedial strategies based on the identified learning gaps.
4. Enhancing learning of students through timely regular feedback and support and bring about improved learning outcomes.
5. Increase retention rate and reduce dropout rate.
6. Generation of awareness and greater participation among all stakeholders.
7. Ensuring better school functioning.

: Gunotsav | Elementary Education | Government Of Assam, India
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Who started Gunotsav?

Which state government has started Gunotsav programme to improve elementary education? Q. Which state government has started Gunotsav programme to improve elementary education? Answer: Assam Notes: The Assam government has recently started four-day long Gunotsav programme to improve quality of school education in the state from April 4, which will cover over 9 lakh students of 12320 primary schools in Barpeta, Chirang, Dibrugarh, Hailakandi, Kamrup (Metro), Lakhimpur, Morigaon and West Karbi Anglong districts.

• It is a quality improvement programme where external evaluators are deputed to the schools for conducting external evaluation of students.
• The programme is a great initiative to gauge the quality of learning and teachers and students will greatly benefit from it.
• Originally a Gujarat government initiative, Gunotsav has been adopted by Sarbananda Sonowal led government in Assam.

: Which state government has started Gunotsav programme to improve elementary education?
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Why is Gunotsav celebrated?

Gunotsav: A holistic initiative to celebrate quality of education in elementary stage – Sentinelassam By : | 4 April 2017 12:00 AM GMT GUWAHATI, March 3: Every student must receive quality education which will eble their persolity, talent and ability and to live a full and satisfying life within society. The aims of education go far beyond acquiring numeracy and literacy skills.

The right to education is not only the right to access education but also the right to receive an education of good quality. Education must be available and accessible but also acceptable and adaptable. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human persolity and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Quality of education is not an easy concept to qualify. When we discuss about quality education for all our learners it is important for us to understand the concept. Quality determines how much and how well children learn and the extent to which their education translates into a range of persol, social and developmental benefits.

Over the years, various initiatives have been taken for improved Learning Outcomes. These include development of textbooks, implementation of activity based learning, capacity building of teachers and engagement of teachers with professiol qualification. Quality of education is a major concern of the state Government.

In order to achieve the bestest quality for the future generation of the country, the state government has implemented ‘Gunotsav’ which will not only help to upgrade the quality of education but also would help children to develop and grow in school environments that are supportive and at the same time challenging, which nurture them to become confident, have good self-esteem and willing to strive forward yet at the same time feel a sense of responsibility towards others in their community.Major Objectives of the Gunotsav : • To assess each child as mandated under CCE to identify learning gaps.

• To ensure learning enhancement and achievement of learning outcomes by all children at elementary level.• To assess the performance of schools on areas viz.
• Curricular, co-curricular, availability and utilization of infrastructure, community participation etc.• To indicate learning gaps and to design effective strategies to meet up these gaps.

• To ensure greater participation of all stakeholder starting from teachers, students, administrators, communities and enhance accountability among them for quality education.• To support the school and education system to improve the quality of education and ensure better functioning of schools.

1. Government of Assam has planned to implement Gunotsav in phased manner across the state.
2. The first phase is planned in 8 districts viz.
3. Barpeta, Chirang, Dibrugarh, Hailakandi, Kamrup(M), Lakhimpur, Morigaon & West Karbi Anglong.
4. In the first phase a total of 9,11,588 children and 12,320 schools shall be covered.

The assessment of children from Class-II to Class-VIII shall be covered from all Government/Provincialised/Tea Garden Maged/Composite Schools of the districts and in 5 mediums viz. Assamese, Bodo, Bengali, Hindi and English. Assessments shall be done in the following areas: 1.

• Scholastic 2.
• Co scholastic3.
• Availability and Utilization of school Infrastructure and other facilities4.
• Community participationThe weightage of assessment shall depend upon the course covered in the academic session i.e.90% weight age of assessment will given on course of previous academic year class and 10% shall be from the current year.

The mode of assessment shall be both in oral and written form. The mode of assessment for Lower Primary shall be both in oral and written form and shall be recorded in Optical Mark Recognisation (OMR) by the teachers. In case of Upper primary classes (Class VI to Class VIII) the assessment shall be done also through Optical Mark Recognisation (OMR) sheets and the ture of the question paper shall be multiple type choice questions.

The assessment shall be done in two ways – Self Assessment and Exterl Assessment. The self assessment shall be conducted by schools for all children on 4th April 2016, by assessing the reading skills of children; as well as there shall be assessment of other areas in presence of School Maging Committees (SMC) and Community members.

Both the results shall be recorded in the prescribed format. On 5th,6th,7th April, 2017, evaluation of these Schools will be conducted by Exterl Evaluators. The team of Exterl Evaluator comprises of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam, Hon’ble Ministers of the State, Hon’ble MLAs, Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam, Senior IAS, IPS, IFS officers, and Class–I & II officers of the State Government.

A total of 4,319 Exterl Evaluators shall be involved in this noble exercise across all eight Gunotsav districts. They are assigned to visit 3 schools each on 5th, 6th and 7th April, 2017. The Reading, Writing & Numeracy Skill of 20% children from Class-II to Class-V (selected randomly by the Exterl Evaluators) in every school will be evaluated in the presence of the Exterl Evaluators.

For children of Class-VI to Class-VIII, evaluation of writing and numeracy skill will be conducted in presence of Exterl Evaluator as well. For evaluation of reading skills in all schools, 20% of the children (selected randomly by the Exterl Evaluators) will be evaluated in presence of the Exterl Evaluators.After assessment, record of performance of each child for each subject will be generated and report card for the school will also be generated.

Adequate remedial package will be developed as per learning gaps of children to bring about desirable improvement in the learning level of children. Expected outcomes: The programme is expected to. • Help in tracking of each child; continuation of education up to elementary level. • Help in identification of learning level and learning gap up to class VIII.• Help in holistic diagnosis of school for better performance.• Bring awareness amongst all and ensure all stakeholder’s participation• Help reducing dropout rate.• Increase Teachers’ Accountability.

: Gunotsav: A holistic initiative to celebrate quality of education in elementary stage – Sentinelassam
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