HT Correspondent
SIVASAGAR, March 15: Once again, Sivasagar district emerged as the best district in Gunotsav 2024 with a ranking of 0.3562 out of 33 districts where it was conducted. Sivasagar has 432 A+, 243 A, 23 B, and 2 C grade schools in the district. This marks the fifth time the district has secured the first position, having achieved it previously in 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023. Sivasagar secured 61.71 while the second and third position holders, Dibrugarh and Jorhat, secured 56.83 and 54.59 percent, respectively. A total of 71,780 students were assessed in Gunotsav 2024 from 941 lower primary, 173 upper primary, 115 high schools, and 34 senior secondary schools in the district.
The four core areas of evaluation in the Gunotsav exercise were scholastic (learning outcome), co-scholastic, infrastructure, and community participation.
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The Gunotsav assessments were carried out by 465 external evaluators, including 11 higher officers and one minister in the district. Among the four education blocks, 305 schools from Amguri, 242 schools from Kheluwa, 357 schools from Demow, and 359 schools from Nazira Block participated in Gunotsav. The success of the district in the school education sector has been lauded by people of all sections here. Sivasagar Inspector of Schools, Devajyoti Gogoi, while congratulating the school teachers, School Management Committees, and the office staff for the consecutive success, expressed serious concern over the regularly irregular attendance of students in the schools. He told this correspondent that while there can be 99 percent students present on the day of Gunotsav, attendance on regular working days over the whole academic year appears to be very poor. It would require more support from all stakeholders, he added.
Our Demow correspondent adds: The results of Gunotsav 2024 were declared on Thursday, with Sivasagar district securing the first position. Adarsha Vidyalaya Demow, situated in Demow Raichai in Sivasagar district, achieved an A+ rating in Gunotsav 2024, bringing laurels to Demow. The staff of Adarsha Vidyalaya Demow expressed their happiness at this achievement. When this correspondent contacted the principal of Adarsha Vidyalaya Demow on Thursday, she stated that the school was established in June 2023. At the time of Gunotsav, there were 160 students and 4 teachers.
