List of 8 Schemes For General
List of 8 Schemes For General
List of 8 Schemes For General
These schemes for Unreserved category people in Gujarat will benefit total 1.5 crore poor
people and will entitle them to avail jobs and education related benefits.
1. Education Loan Scheme : Any person form general category can take loan of up
to Rs. 10 lakh at 4% interest from GUEEDC for admission in self financed Medical
College, Engineering College, Pharmacy College, Nursing College, Architecture
College and other technical courses college. For this education loan, the annual
income of the applicant family should not be exceed Rs. 3 lakh annual and
applicant secured in 11th and 12th class must be more than 60%.
2. Foreign Studies Loan Scheme : GUEEDC provides education loan up to Rs. 15
lakh at 4% interest rate to studies in foreign counties. For this loan scheme,
applicant family annual income must be less than Rs. 4.5 lakh and candidate must
have secured minimum 60% marks in 12th class.
3. Tuition Assistance Scheme : The students of 12th class who have secured more
than 70% marks in 1oth class and now studying in 11th and 12th class in science
stream will get Rs.15000 as tuition fees from the corporation.
4. Food Bill Scheme : All the unreserved category students who are studying in
private hostels will get monthly assistance of Rs. 1200 per month and for this
scheme, the family income of the applicant should be less than Rs. 3 lakh annually.
5. Coaching Assistance for 12th Class : GUEEDC will provide finical assistance of
Rs. 20,000 per year to students of science stream for preparation of entrance
examination like NEET and JEE.
6. Coaching Assistance for Graduate Students : The students of general category
who have completed their graduation degree and preparing for government
competitive examination like UPSC and other exams can get assistance of Rs.
20,000 as a coaching fees.
7. Loans for Doctors and Advocates : All the doctors and advocates of general
category can also avail loans up to Rs. 10 lakh to start their own clinics and offices.
8. Self Employment Loan Scheme : The sate government of Gujarat is focusing on
creation of self-employment opportunities. Anyone who wants to start their own
business such as grocery trade or transportation can get loans upto Rs. 10 lakh at
5% interest rate.
Gujarat Primary & Secondary Education Department has taken various digital initiatives for a long
time. The idea behind the initiatives is to connect teachers and students by providing quality
educational content from the comfort of their homes. School Education department of Gujarat
Government has started e-platform, mobile application for CWSN, Live Classes through TV & radio,
offline video lectures, simulations, digital classrooms, Samarth 2.0, Facebook workplace and
workchat, VanchanAbhiyan etc.
Major Initiatives To Move- From Schooling To Learning
100% enrolment
Improving regular attendance of students and teachers
Real time online monitoring of CRCs, BRCs and other officials
Detailed analysis of weekly tests and the semester exams
Generating actionable insights for multiple stakeholders
More than 3 Lakh calls to schools, CRCs, BRCs, TPEOs and other key stakeholders were made
from CCC to provide support in the academic year 2019-20.
School Monitoring App
Weekly Unit Tests for each subject for Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary
Government School Students
Question Papers are developed in view of Centralized Timetable and learning outcomes
Question Papers are sent online to all Schools across the State
Centralized Data Entry of all students for each subject is done every week.
Over 10 Crore Tests conducted in 2019-20
Regular Remedial measures are being planned and implemented based on the results of
this test
Smart Classroom Initiative Phase II - 12,000 Classrooms
Gyankunj 2.0
SAMARTH-2 was formally launched on August 16,2019 and phase-2 comprised participation
of more than 1,52,966 teachers teaching in standards 1 to 8 of Government primary schools
of Gujarat.
This capacity building of teachers was done online and had topics on Pragna perspective,
Gujarati, Hindi, English, Environment Science, Social Science, Science, Maths, Evaluation
and Remedial Education, Children Creativity, Use of ICT in Education in schools and
inclusive education for children with special needs.
Programme included 182 topics and 278 case studies
The design and development of the technology based platform was supported by IIMA
GPS based App to monitor school, classroom, resource room and Home visit
Helps to track the progress of different schemes of CwSN and Individualised Education Plan
(IEP)
33 IE-CwSN Dist. Coordinators, 2095 SEs & ~1 lakh CwSN are connected through this app
Building an online community of Teachers
Facebook Workplace & Workchat
All 2.5 lakh teachers, CRCs, BRCs, TPEOs, DPEOs and State level Officials of the
Education Department have been provided with Facebook Work Chat Mobile based
Videoconferencing facility to directly connect and interact with Hon. CM, Hon EM, Secretary
and other HoDs time to time
And through Facebook Workplace Teachers share the innovation and best practices on a
daily basis with 2,000+ Posts every day.
After studying state’s Technology Based interventions in Education, Facebook has extended
this facility Pro bono to state.
Facebook showcased this initiative as a Case Study in Davos 2020
Centralised Summative Examination & Online Data entry of Results for Grades 3
to 8
To improve the reading and comprehension levels among students of grades 3 to 8, a 100-
day long Reading Campaign (‘Vanchan Abhiyan’) has been initiated
Grade-wise compilation of activities for reading - ‘Bhashadeep’, has been created and
provided to each student
Specially designed audio and video literature have also been created and provided to
schools
A pre-test is conducted for all the students in grades 3 to 8 to test their current reading
ability.
A post-test will be conducted to check the effectiveness of the campaign
Research will be conducted to benchmark the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) and Oral
Reading Fluency with Comprehension for Gujarati language
Daily Online Attendance System was launched in November 2018 to track the attendance of
all the students and teachers across the state
This system has been implemented in all the Primary, Secondary & Higher Secondary –
Government, Grant-in-aid and Self Financed Schools in the State
Almost 100% compliance in student attendance submission through CCC against about 65%
average attendance submission in the beginning.
Due to continuous follow ups and support through CCC, 70% students studying in grades I-
VIII marked more than 80% attendance in December 2019 while this number was just 43% in
December 2018.
85% of teachers have registered more than 80% attendance in December 2019 against 76%
in December 2018
School Head Teachers are engaged in various non-teaching activities like – Payroll
management; Managing Service Book of Teachers; Updating School Infrastructure details
Considering their non-teaching workload, Head Teachers are allowed to take 18 period per
week while other teachers have to take 45 period per week
Department has developed and launched an integrated web application and platform for
schools with the aforesaid functionalities to reduce the workload of Head Teachers
significantly
Head Teachers will now put in an average of 15 Hours extra academic work every week
thereby, estimated 25,000 Head Teachers adding more than 1.25 Crore (12.5 Million)
additional Man Hours per Year of academic work
Energised Textbook (ETB) is a feature aimed at providing access to digital content for
various topics in physical textbooks
State had piloted the idea in 2019-20 with Maths & Science textbook carrying QR Codes for
Grades 6,7,8
From the academic year 2020-21, Grades 3-8, all the textbooks and for Grade 10 - Maths &
Science textbooks will be made available with QR Codes
By scanning the QR code available for every chapter, students and teachers can access the
audio-visual content through Diksha app
An MOU has been signed by the State for the commencement of Science of Learning
Institute
SOL will carry out educational research on student misconceptions and skill-based learning
gaps
Science of Learning Portal is being set up for Teachers to access the research data and the
remedial items
Trainings & Workshops will be conducted for teachers to deliver insights emerging from the
research
GCERT has launched online courses for head teachers, teachers, BRCs, CRCs and trainees
on Diksha.
Total of 11 courses were launched in May 2020
Over 1.12 Lakh Enrolments are seen for these courses, till date
The eight week-long teaching campaign through social media was started on March 28 for
Government School Students from Class III-IX for English, Mathematics, Gujarati subjects
Over 35 lakh students 60% got covered as a part of the campaign
The weekly assignments were handed over to BRCs and CRCs who distributed this literature
to all teachers every Saturday through WhatsApp and email
The teachers ensured that these assignments are delivered to parents through 3200
WhatsApp groups
For the Parents who don’t have the phone, the teachers ensured that assignments get
delivered through the neighbours or even the village Sarpanch
To compensate for the lost teaching hours during the school’s shutdown due to COVID-19,
State arranged for live and recorded lessons through television channels
A systematic schedule was planned in collaboration with 13 news channels and Vande
Gujarat DTH channel, with an aim to offer adequate revision and practice to the students
before the annual exams
Also, for revision ahead of the annual exams, nearly 1.8 lakh teachers reached out to all
individual students and hand over worksheets, all 51 weekly tests (periodical assessment
tests) and their answer sheets conducted in the second semester to Class III to VIII students
Socio-Psychological Support for Children
‘Parivar no maalo-salamat ane humfaalo (family’s nest-safe and warm)’ programme was
launched by GCERT on April 1 as a part of Socio-Psychological support to Children during
the Pandemic
As a part of the programme students were provided with daily education material including
stories, songs, physical and mental activities, shared through WhatsApp
Virtual Classrooms