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It has also been suggested that separate progress report cards should be maintained for children at various stages — primary and upper primary. This will help trace the learning progression within and across stages.
“Only specific observations pertaining to children’s performance and behaviour which need to be highlighted to facilitate both students and teachers reflect and review their work, may only be noted in a diary or a logbook. The observations on learning outcomes depicting Personal Social Qualities (PSQs) may be noted as and when required/noticed,” says the policy
The guidelines have been developed keeping three major purposes of assessment in mind: ‘for Learning’, ‘as Learning’ and ‘of Learning’. It also involves getting students to evaluate themselves as well as their peers.
“It is important that the skills of reflection and critically reviewing one’s own work are developed over a period of time. For this opportunity need to be given right from early stages and the teachers need to be patient in this process,” the policy says.
An educationist welcomed the guidelines as progressive but said it was important to display the same approach beyond class 8.
“This kind of system can easily be implemented by schools from nursery to class 8, and some progressive schools already do it... but the problem is what comes after class 8. In class 9-12, the students are abruptly pushed into a system of scores, marks and exams; this can be traumatic. We need to rework the entire education system from nursery to class 12, and then our higher education as well,” said Ameeta Wattal, the principal of Springdales School Pusa Road in Delhi. must deliberate over our proposal. Targeting his road shows could be an effective strategy. We collectively believe that survival of party is supreme to all sacrifices.”
Pune’s joint commissioner of police Ravindra Kadam said the letter is part of documents recovered by a Pune police team during searches conducted on April 17. The letter was recovered from the laptop of Rona Sen, one of the five persons arrested on Wednesday for alleged naxal links, in connection with the December 31 Elgar Parishad.
The letter dated April 18, 2017, also talks about procuring weapons such as “M4s” rifles with 400,000 rounds of ammunition at a cost of ₹8 crore.
Reacting to the report, home minister Rajnath Singh said the government is serious about the security of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”We are always serious about the prime minister’s security. The Maoists are fighting a losing battle. They are now active only in 10 districts in the country,” he told journalists.
Expressing doubt over the report, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Friday said it might be “planted”. “I am not saying this is completely untrue, but it has been Prime Minister Modi’s old tactic, since he was chief minister of Gujarat. Whenever his popularity declines, news of an assassination plot is planted,” news agency ANI quoted him as saying.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury too downplayed the development. “Security forces have been taking care of the politicians in India. I don’t know (if it’s real or not). Let the court decide that,” he said.