Guwahati: The Assam government will launch its annual state-wide exercise to evaluate the quality of school education, ‘Gunotsav 2025’, in January next year, covering over 44,000 schools in all 35 districts.
According to an official statement issued on Friday, the exercise will be carried out in all 35 districts, covering 44,094 schools –government/ provincialised, tea garden model schools, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Avasiya Vidyalaya, Adarsha Vidyalayas and tea garden managed schools.
A total of 39,65,081 students from classes 1 to 9 will come under the initiative, the statement said.
It will be conducted in three phases, with the first phase covering 11 districts from January 6 to 9, the second phase in 14 districts from January 17 to 22, and the third phase in 10 districts from February 5 to 8.
The state government has also introduced new features for the upcoming evaluation, including a mobile phone app for submission of reports and evaluation of uniforms.
The app can be used for the submission of the school evaluation part and the observation report of external evaluators.
Evaluation of uniforms has been included as a separate evaluation area as per the directive of the chief minister.
The external evaluator will evaluate different indicators/ descriptors of uniform and submit the observations through the portal or app.
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The observation report of the external evaluator during Gunotsav 2024 will be displayed in the Gunotsav Portal 2025.
‘Gunotsav’ was first organized in the state in 2017 and five rounds of this exercise have been conducted already, covering all districts.