Lok Sabha Question No. 9 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-14
Subject: CBSE
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Rajan Baburao  Vichare

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.9 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.09.2020

## CBSE

## †9. SHRI RAJAN VICHARE:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has launched any programme for the key resource persons and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the  details  of  rank  held  and  percentage  score  of  Kendriya  Vidyalayas  among  schools scoring  99  percent  and  above  marks  in  the  board  examination  of  class  tenth  this  year; State-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  any  scheme  for  digital  education  and  if  so,  the  details thereof Statewise;
- (d) whether the Government has any basis for revising the CBSE course for class 9th to 12th for the academic year session of 2020-21;
- (e) if so, the details thereof;
- (f) whether the children have so far got any benefit from 'Fit hai to Hit hai India' under the Fit India Campaign and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF EDUCATION

## (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

- (a): The  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  launched  a  National  Mission  to improve  learning  outcomes  at  the  Elementary  level  through  an  Integrated  Teacher  Training Programme  called  NISHTHA  -  National  Initiative  for  School  Heads'  and  Teachers'  Holistic Advancement on 21 st August, 2019.  The aim of this integrated teacher training programme was to  build  the  capacities  of  around  42  lakh  teachers  and  Heads  of  Schools,  faculty  members  of SCERTs and DIETs and Block Resource Coordinators and Cluster Resource Coordinators.  A total of 23,137 Key Resource Persons (KRPs) and State Resource Persons (SRPs) and 16,99,931 School Heads and Teachers have been trained under NISTHA in 2019-20.

In 2020-21, it has been decided to launch NISHTHA - Phase II at the secondary level. Due to COVID - 19 situations, NISHTHA Online has been created by customizing Modules for Online delivery.

Central  Board  of  Secondary  Education  also  keeps  organizing  Prospective  Resource Persons training programmes for the key resource persons. These Key Resource Persons, in turn, train other teachers of the schools affiliated to CBSE in various subjects through online as well as  in-person  training  programmes  organized  by  CBSE.  Till  date  CBSE  has  empanelled  1500 such key resource persons with it.

- (b): 202  schools  including  five  Kendriya  Vidyalayas  have  one  or  more  such  students  who scored  aggregate  99  or  above  percentage  in  class  X  in  the  year  2020.  State  wise  rank  on  the percentage of students scoring above 99 percentages aggregate marks of Kendriya Vidyalaya are as follows.
- (c): A  comprehensive  initiative  called PM  eVIDYA has  been  initiated  which  unifies  all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multi-mode access to education. This will benefit nearly 25 crore school going children across the country. The initiative includes:
- DIKSHA  the  nation's  digital  infrastructure  for  providing  quality  e-content  for  school education in states/UTs:  and QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades (one nation, one digital platform)
- One earmarked TV channel per class from 1 to 12 (one class, one channel)
- Extensive use of Radio, Community radio and CBSE Podcast- Shiksha Vani
- Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube

| Name of the KV              | State       |   Rank in the State |
|-----------------------------|-------------|---------------------|
| KV Bailey Road Patna        | Bihar       |                   5 |
| K V IN S Dronacharya Cochin | Kerala      |                  11 |
| KVSambalpur                 | Odisha      |                   6 |
| KVPattom Trivandrum         | Kerala      |                  19 |
| KV No 1 Salt Lake Kolkata   | West Bengal |                  09 |

## INDIA REPORT- Digital Education June 2020

The  State/  UT  Governments  have  also  managed  the  critical  task  of  providing  digital education at the door step of the students. The report can be accessed here:

https://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/India\_Report\_Digital\_Education\_0.pdf

## PRAGYATA Guidelines on Digital Education

Keeping in view the availability of digital infrastructure, guideline briefs on various modes of digital education including online mode that depends more on availability of internet, partially online mode that utilizes the blended approach of digital technology and other offline activities, partial  and offline mode that utilizes television and radio as a major medium of instruction of education.  The guidelines can be accessed at:

## https://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/pragyata-guidelines\_0.pdf

(d) and (e): As far as Central Board of Secondary Education is concerned, the Board has reduced syllabi of major subjects only for the purpose of summative examinations and this is a temporary measure for this  year  only  to  mitigate  the  effect  of  lockdown.  The  Committee  of  Courses  for each subject has considered the following basis while rationalizing the syllabus content as it has become a necessity:

- The schools are closed without face to face teaching and many  students are deprived of online classes due to multiple reasons
- All topics are important therefore all topics to be learnt through the Alternative Academic Calendar of NCERT. It emphasizes providing variety of learning opportunities based on learner-centered-pedagogies  and  also  focused  on  learning  outcomes  to  students. This does not entail reduction of syllabus as far as learning is considered.
- In this extraordinary situation, certain topics which students have already studied or will study in detail in higher classes may be omitted from summative assessments. Teachers can discuss these topics as required.
- The  topics/concepts  that  are  duplicated  in  other  subjects  in  the  same  class,  or  already covered in previous classes to a certain extent can be minimized. This is considered as the teachers can integrate the previous knowledge while teaching a particular topic.
- Appropriate changes in Practical components as per revision needs to be done.

CBSE is a progressive Board and over the years has encouraged thematic, concept based and integrated approach of teaching and learning.

(f): The Fit India Movement campaigns are promoted through the generic tagline of 'Fit Hai to  Hit  Hai  India'.  Under  the  Fit  India  Movement,  various  programmes/  campaigns  have  been executed in collaboration with CBSE and other organizations which have benefitted the school going children. These include Fit India School Certification system and Fit India School Week which encourage schools to raise the  fitness  bar  of  children  by  increasing  Physical  Education periods and improving the infrastructure in schools for sports/fitness activities. So far, more than 1.66  lakh  schools  have  registered  as  Fit  India  Schools  and  15,000  schools  celebrated  The  Fit India School Week in the month of Nov-Dec 2019.

Further, various other programmes have also been undertaken, including Fit India Plog Run, Fit India Cyclothon, Fit India Active Day series, Fit India Champions talks, Fit India Yoga Day and Fit India Freedom Run, which saw the participation of school children in large numbers.

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