Over 42 Lakh Students to be Assessed During Gunotsav in Assam

Gunotsav, 2022: An initiative by Govt of Assam to augment quality education in the State

State-wide celebration of Gunotsav in three phases from May 11-June 4, 2022

Guwahati: In a bid to revive the education sector heavily impacted by COVID-19 and contribute towards overall development of students, Govt of Assam will celebrate Gunotsav, 2022 across the State from May 11-June 4, 2022. Under the initiative of Department of Education, Assam and Axom Sarba Siksha Abhiyan Mission, this year Gunotsav will be held in three phases.

Gunotsav 2022: Its objectives

• To identify learning gaps of each child and ensure quality education with grade specific learning outcomes.
• To assess the performance of schools on areas viz scholastic, co-scholastic, availability and utilisation of infrastructure, community participation, etc.
• To indicate learning gaps specially during COVID-19 and design effective strategies to meet up these gaps.
• To ensure greater participation of all stakeholders starting from teachers, students, administrators, communities and enhance accountability among them for quality education.
• To support the school and education system so as to improve the quality of education and ensure better functioning of schools.

Schedule of Gunotsav 2022 :

Facts of Gunotsav, 2022:

• Gunotsav will be conducted in all 33 districts of the state.
• All Government/Provincialised/ Tea Garden Management Schools of Elementary & Secondary level will be covered.
• 42,50,224 students of 46,000 schools will participate in the programme
• Evaluation will be conducted for class I to IX level .
• 18752 External Evaluators will be deployed across the state

Deployment of External Evaluators:

• The entire Govt machinery including Hon’ble Chief Minister, Ministers, Hon’ble MLAs, Chief Secretary to the GOA, Senior IAS, IPS and IFS officers, class I & II officers of the state will visit schools as External Evaluators for evaluation of the performance of children and schools.
• They will play the role of a Mentor/Guide for the school. He/She will be a source of inspiration & motivation for the students.
• External Evaluator has to register themselves in on-line portal for Gunotsav and update their profile

Methodology of Gunotsav:

• Evaluation will be done on Scholastic [Both Skill (Reading, Writing & Numeracy/Basic Mathematical Operations) & Subject Areas], Co-scholastic, Community Participation and Infrastructure.

• There will be both self-evaluation and external evaluation. Evaluation will be for two days for each school. Self-evaluation (Reading skill and School Evaluation) will be conducted by schools in presence of SMC/SMDC on the 1^st day of Gunotsav.

• Scholastic evaluation will be for Class 1-9. As the academic year has started in April and Gunotsav, 2022 is also scheduled in May/June, question papers will be administered to students of next higher class. Though Class 1-9 levels will be assessed, students from Class 2-10 will be covered. Hence, students of Class 2 will get question paper of Class 1 and so on for the rest of the classes.

• On the day of external evaluation, evaluation will be done for all the students on three skills (Reading, Writing & Numeracy/ Basic Mathematical Operations) and subject areas.
• The external evaluator will randomly select 20% students for each of the three skills (Reading, Writing & Numeracy) and will assess their performance. He/she will closely monitor the overall evaluation process.
• The external evaluator will assess the areas of school evaluation (Co-scholastic, Community Participation and Infrastructure) and will fill up the OMR sheet by himself/herself.

• Evaluation will be OMR based. From Class 3 onwards, students will fill up the OMR sheet themselves. For Class 1 and 2, class wise OMR sheets will be there for marking/transferring of responses. From Class 3 onwards, OMR sheet will be for individual child.

• Individual question papers will be provided to each student. Both skill and subject parts will be in the same question paper.

• On the day of external evaluation, the teachers will be interchanged within the cluster. The time schedule of schools of Tea Garden areas will be same as other schools.

This massive exercise will generate awareness amongst teachers, students, parents, community and other stakeholders on importance of quality education and positive feeling towards Govt. school system. Department of Education and Samagra Shiksha, Assam appeals all to support Gunotsav, 2022 and make this event a grand success.