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Ahmedabad, 12 October (Hindustan Reporter). When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath as the 14th Chief Minister of Gujarat 23 years ago, the level of education in the state was very low. At the same time, Modi had pledged that he would make all efforts to improve the condition of the education sector in Gujarat and make education simple and accessible to the last class of the state. To realize this resolution, he vigorously started many schemes in the education sector and made vigorous efforts to increase the scope of education in the state.
According to the government spokesperson, with the aim of accelerating primary education in the state and increasing the enrollment of students in schools, the then Chief Minister Modi started the Shala Praveshotsav and Kanya Shiksha Rath Yatra programs in the year 2003. Recently, the 21st School Entrance Festival was organized under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. The austerity started by Modi in the education sector 23 years ago has yielded positive results. Today, colleges and universities providing higher and technical education have been established in Gujarat. 23 years ago there were only 21 universities in Gujarat, whereas today 108 universities are functioning in the state. Gujarat has today become a hub of sector-specific universities. Government schools of the state have also become smart and digital today. Students who were studying on black boards two decades ago are today using smart boards and interactive smart classes with the help of technology.
With the aim of improving the primary education sector and enrolling more and more children in schools, Modi started the School Entrance Festival and Girls Education Rath Yatra program in the year 2003. The result was that today lakhs of children of the state get admission in schools through the Shala Praveshotsav programme. Recently, the 21st School Entrance Festival was successfully organized in the state under the leadership of Chief Minister Patel. Through this, about 16 lakh children got admission in primary education. Apart from the school entrance ceremony; To give impetus to primary education, Modi implemented various educational schemes like Gunotsav, Mid Day Meal Scheme, Vidyadeep Scheme etc. As a result of these initiatives and schemes implemented in the education sector, the school dropout ratio rate of classes 1 to 8 in the state was 37.55 percent in the year 2002, whereas today it has reduced significantly. Under Gyan Kunj Project, interactive smart classes with smart boards have been created in the classrooms in government primary schools of Gujarat with the help of technology.
23 years ago, students of Gujarat had to look to other states of the country or abroad to get higher education. To solve this problem, the then Chief Minister Modi focused on establishing institutions providing higher and technical education in the state. There has been a continuous increase in the number of colleges, universities and technical education providing institutions in the state. The number of medical colleges in the state has also increased from 10 in 23 years to 40 today. Apart from this, financial assistance is being provided to the innovation of young talents of Gujarat through Student Startup and Innovation Policy, which has encouraged the youth of the state for startups. According to the Central Government's Startup Ranking, Gujarat has been consistently ranked first as the best performing state in the country for the last 4 years.
Gujarat has today become a hub of sector-specific universities. Today in the state, institutions like Children's University, Rakshashakti University, National Forensic Science University, Biotechnology University, Railway University (Vadodara), Gujarat Maritime University, Gujarat Technological University, Indian Institute of Teacher Education, Gujarat National Law University etc. provide education to the students of the state at the local level. Providing higher and technical education. With the aim of encouraging students for higher education sector, Mukhyamantri Yuva Swavalamban Yojana, Shodh Yojana, Mukhyamantri Kanya Kelavani Nidhi Yojana etc. are working in Gujarat.
Vidya Review Center-
The country's first educational command and control center 'Vidya Samiksha Kendra' has been started in Gujarat to monitor the performance of all government schools in the state. Vidya Samiksha Kendra is India's first real-time, online, all-inclusive school education dashboard. Vidya Samiksha Kendra has been equipped with modern facilities like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analysis etc. In the Vidya Samiksha Kendra, related analysis and insights are done at the state, district, tehsil, cluster, school, grade, subject and student level. Vidya Samiksha Kendra gives various state-wise analysis of achievements across all learning outcomes for all subjects from classes 3 to 12. Delegations from international institutions like World Bank, OECD, British Deputy High Commissioner, UNICEF and Cambridge have visited Vidya Samiksha Kendra and praised it. This modern center in the education sector can bring big changes in the entire country.