TAD introduces educational initiatives for hostels in J&K
India Today
The Tribal Affairs Department has launched flagship initiatives for education across hostels in Jammu and Kashmir.
On Saturday, a series of reforms for hostels across Jammu and Kashmir were approved by the Jammu and Kashmir Tribal Affairs Departments (TAD) with the objective of providing state-of-the-art educational facilities to tribal students and emphasising outcome-based quality education and skilling. A number of measures and schemes were approved by a Union Territory-level committee, headed by Secretary, TAD, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary. These will be launched with immediate effect from the present academic year.
The TAD approved the ‘Technology Enabled Education Scheme’ for hostel students in Class 11, 12, and PG courses, as per an official statement.
The students will be given tabs-PCs with pre-loaded study material that includes books, animations, mind-maps, resource materials, and references.
The official further informed that students will be allowed to own a tab even after the completion of the course while adding that more than 1000 students will be given these tabs before July 31.
The Tribal Research Institute (TRI) has been given the responsibility of course and content design for tabs and distributing it to pupils, as per the official.
Informing further, the official further said that the tuition system of hostels was also given a boost with improvement in Classes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 tutors’ honorarium, raising it to Rs 3000, Rs 4500 and Rs 6000 per month from Rs 1,000, Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,500 respectively.
He stated that the TAD has notified that hostels would run and remain functioning for 12 months instead of the current 10-month a year system in vogue in an effort to give educational facilities to the students throughout the year.
