Education being the strongest source of revolutionising the livelihood of every individual and making the future of contemporary and coming generations depends upon its flexibility, Vision, Mission, and appealing approach. The challenges in the field are many more in itself and with the other partners in this field. Many steps have been taken and are being taken to revolutionise the system. Our glorious past has put forward a different message to us. The teaching learning process under the shades of Chinar Tress, The learning under open space, The schools having a very low infrastructure and no proper Matting, Not having sufficient Teachers, One Teacher For three to four subjects and not having separate classrooms and many more. But the present day scenario is entirely different due to many reasons. The competition starting from the family members. Kids of the same family reading in different schools. The approaches of pedagogues with their students. The attachment and the care of different HOI’s towards their institutions. The facility in the schools etc. This has raised the competition among the students in choosing the institution as a centre of Learning. And it has been seen as a challenge among the family members that where to send their wards for better education as the education is becoming the most challenging factor now. The District Administration Kupwara as an innovation has put forward the Project ZIMEDARI in the field of Education for revolutionising the education sector in the district. The project was embraced by the Chief Education Officer Kupwara Mr Abdul Hamid Fani, Principals, Zonal Education Officers and all the Teaching and Non Teaching staff of the district. Zimedari is a revolutionising plateform where schools can be made in accordance with the demands of the modern times. The project Zimedari is spread over six (6) Thematic areas Viz, Academics, Basic Infrastructure, Co-Curricular Activities, Extra Curricular Activities, Social and Emotional Learning, and human resource Development. Theses areas are having 85 indicators for the holistic development and the performance under the Project Zimedari have been ranked based on the performance attained across these 85 indicators and have been ranked in four point colour depiction scale Viz Red , Orange, Yellow and Green. The colour depiction Red shows (Poor Performance, and needs review for detailed intervention). The Colour Depiction Orange shows (Average performance, and needs focused intervention). The Yellow colour shows (Good performance and needs target intervention) and the Green shows (Excellent performance and needs to be continued). There was a clear timeline for the completion of the project and the district and zonal level teams have been made. Mr Gayoor Ahmad Bhat and Mr Manzoor Ahmad Khan have been designated as Co-ordinator and Assistant-Coordinator by the CEO Kupwara Mr Abdul Hamid Fani. The CEO Kupwara as being the most dedicated and very inspirational officers who believes on the Scale and Ranking system, Like to be at Rank 1 or 2.in all the assignments of the Govt / Department. The Trainings were given to the Evaluators by Mr Firdous Member of the core Team, Coordinator, Assistant Coordinator and the members of Piramal Foundation. The Teaching and Non Teaching Faculty of the district have taken it as a challenge and by donating from their personal pockets as a missionary zeal to decorate the schools, viz Infrastructure, and other components mentioned in the project. The Kitchen Gardens have been set up in majority of the schools of the district. Classrooms have been decorated, the artistic capabilities of both the teachers and the students came out and paintings having the concept of BALA have been designed on the walls of the school.
The Teachers profile have been Installed in every schools by mentioning the Names, Qualification, and other information of both Teaching and Non Teaching Faculty. The concept of competition with in the schools emerge at a larger extent and The cleanliness was upto the mark. The focus on Academics only, has now shifted to other parts of the Teaching learning process as Holistic Development of the child. The Curricular Activities, Co-curricular Activities, ICT,Teacher student Relation grow up maximum. This challenging and most innovative revolutionising project for the development of education in the district is keenly being monitored by the Doifode Sagar Dattatray IAS Deputy Commissioner Kupwara and Abdul Hamid Fani Chief Education Officer Kupwara. During This whole process of revolutionising education system in the district the PRI’s and Other officer who were on visit to district Kupwara felt happy while assessing the school system and many PRI’S discussed in their meetings also Wrote on their social networking sites “Thanks to DC Kupwara and CEO Kupwara for revolutionising Education system in the district, AAJ 60 SAAL KA BUDHA BE SCHOOL KA LOOK DAIK K SCHOOL JANA CHAHTA HAY”. The assessment of the schools have been completed and during present day winter vacations majority of the teachers are visiting schools to look after it’s surroundings and infrastructure. During my recent trainings at SKICC Srinagar regarding Two days workshop on Digital Transformation of Education in Jammu and Kashmir vision 2025 by UNICEF and Move Beyond there were many officers, Officials and Stake Holders from various states. One of the project carrying 60 indicators which has been taken by the administration at Gujrat have been discussed there, though that had brought a very good change in their education system, but in its response i discussed the Zimedari Project with 85 indicators seems more appealing and beneficial in making our future more glorious. Present day in homes and shops people are discussing Zimedari as a house hold name. They now believe that anything is possible, but it needs determination and consistency, Like Zimedari made our school system. Now we all are the stake holders of Zimedari as these schools belong to us. Wish this may remain continue for the days of our future generation.
(The author a teacher by profession .The views, opinions, facts, assumptions, presumptions and conclusions expressed in this article are author’s own and aren’t necessarily in accord with the views of “Kashmir Horizon”.)
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