Rajasthan

• 12 Jul 2022

New portal of Post Matric Scholarship Launched

Why in News?

• On July 11, 2022, Rajasthan's Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Tikaram Julie launched the new portal of Uttar Matric Scholarship Scheme for the academic year 2022-23.

Key Points

• Speaking on the occasion, he said that many new provisions have been made in the new portal for the convenience of the students. Timely payment of scholarships to the students is the main objective of the New Portal.
• He said that this time the scholarship portal has been opened only in the month of July so that students can apply for scholarship at the time of admission in their college/institution.
• The Government Secretary of the Department, Dr. Samit Sharma informed that the system of automatic verification of only renewal applications of all and private institutions of government institutions has been made effective at the district office by providing for automatic enumeration of the course-wise replenishable amount by way of deletion of fee receipt in the new portal.
• Under the new portal, arrangements have been made for sending/verifying and sanctioning of applications on the basis of course-wise and class-wise fee structure already filled up on the page of the educational institution and accordingly payment of scholarship and Aadhaar biometric attendance.
• This time, for speedy disposal of applications, a warning message will be circulated every 7 days to the students and educational institutions and if the objection is not met, the application will be rejected within 30 days.
• In addition, in the event of human process verification of applications, the time limit for scrutiny of applications at the verification level has been fixed at 10 days and at the District Authority Level up to 10 days.
• From March 2020 onwards, a gap certificate will not be required as the details of the student's previous years' application are displayed to the verifier on the student's application itself.
• This time in the scheme, according to the new guidelines of Scheduled Caste Scholarship, a provision of freeship card has been made on the portal to ensure the scholarship of the student, so that a freeship card is automatically issued by the interested person after entering his details, automatically verifying his eligibility. Will happen.
• Under the new provisions, the student will have an automatic application for scholarship renewal on the basis of attendance or promotion in the next academic session and the database of admissions and examinations of universities/colleges has been digitally linked to the Digi Locker database so that the portal is able to get the necessary information from this database so as to determine the eligibility of the student for acceptance and renewal.

‘Rajasthan Ke Shiksha Mein Badhte Kadam’ Program

Why in News?

• On July 11, 2022, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot launched the remediation program 'Rajasthan Ke Shiksha Mein Badhte Kadam' through virtual medium to compensate the school students of the state for the loss of studies during the Corona period.

Key Points

• Apart from this, the Chief Minister also released the poster and logo of the 'Rajasthan Ke Shiksha Mein Badhte Kadam' program. He also inaugurated the 'Field Orientation' programme for teachers, education officers, parents and children.
• Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that in order to meet the long loss caused by the Corona pandemic, a remediation program 'Growing Steps in Education of Rajasthan' is being launched for the students of classes 1 to 8 in the academic session 2022-23, under which the students will be taught in a skill-based, easy and joyful way of teaching in the bridge course conducted.
• It is noteworthy that in order to compensate the educational loss of the young people due to Covid, in the budget of the year 2022-23, 'Bridge Program' was announced with a financial provision of Rs 75 crore.
• Under the 'Rajasthan Ke Shiksha Mein Badhte Kadam' program, the emphasis will be on learning rather than cramming into bridge courses. In the bridge course, for classes 1 to 8, 4 periods will be fixed in the first three months and 2 periods in the remaining entire session.
• Under the scheme, skill based workbooks will be prepared for more than 75 lakh students and proficiency assessment will be done 3 times a year.
• Under this program, proficiency based holistic report cards of the students will be made with regular teacher-parent meetings.
• For effective implementation of this program, capacity building programs of teachers will be conducted and the facility of Teaching Aid App will also be made available to all teachers of classes 3 to 8.