New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for each school in the country to plan its own targets to achieve by 2022 as he reviewed the progress of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at a high-level meeting on Monday.
A release by the Prime Minister`s Office stated that he said that best teaching practices should be identified, and a repository of the same created, for wider dissemination and the basic data for all school teachers, such as Aadhaar numbers, email IDs and mobile numbers should be maintained in a database.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister wrote: "At the meeting on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, called for identifying & embracing key best practices in education that can benefit youngsters (sic)."
At the meeting on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, called for identifying & embracing key best practices in education that can benefit youngsters.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 22, 2015
The Prime Minister further called for an aptitude test for all students and a greater synergy between the Digital India initiative, and related programmes of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
I also emphasised on greater synergy between Digital India initiative & programmes related to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. http://t.co/b1MGLIuXQT
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 22, 2015
Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and senior officials were also present for the meeting.
