Direction to involve Welfare & Education Assistants / WEDPSS- Ensure all Dropout students enrolled in the Schools Requested - Regarding Rc.GWS02

GVWV&VSWS Department - School Education - UDISE 2022-23-2.25 Lakh Dropout Students Identified Issue Instructions to MPDOs Municipal Commissioners with a direction to involve Welfare & Education Assistants / WEDPSS- Ensure all Dropout students enrolled in the Schools Requested - Regarding. 

Ref: 

1. UDISE for the year 2022-23 2. D.O. Lr. Rc.No, ESE02/Spl 2/2022-CSE, Dt: 28-09-2022 of Commissioner School Education

It is to inform that in the reference 2nd cited above, the Commissioner, School Education has informed that the School Education Department is maintaining the Student Information Management System (SIMS) to manage all the data related to the schools, including Students enrollment, attendance, periodic evaluation. This database is used for identifying beneficiaries for all government programs like Ammavodi, JVK etc.

2. Further he informed that, during the academic year 2022-23 it is observed that, there are about 2.25 Lakhs dropout students when compared with the previous year. While the efforts put in by the School Headmasters and other Employees in Education Department has helped to identify and enrolled some of the Children in last few weeks. He requested the GVWV&VSWS Department to involve the Village/ Ward Secretariat Functionaries and to identify the remaining Children 1.73 Lakhs and bring them back to the schools.

3. The GVWV&VSWS Department will be enabled a module in the Consistent Rhythms APP in WEA/WEDPS login by 1st October,2022. District wise list of Dropout remaining Children 1.73 Lakhs can be downloaded in the following link - https://tinyurl.com/Dropouts-data 4. In this regard, District Collectors are requested to issue instructions to all MPDOS and Municipal Commissioners with a direction to involve the Welfare & Education Assistants / WEDPSS to verify the names of the children who are found to be Dropout in the Village / Ward and get them enrolled in the Schools duly utilizing the services of the Volunteers.

5. Following Roles are prescribed to Welfare & Education Assistants / WEDPSS and Gram / Ward Volunteers for effective enrollment of Dropout Children in the Schools:

Role of Welfare & Education Assistants / WEDPSs:

I. Verify the Children who are found to be dropout as per the data shared to them

II. Visit the houses of dropout children along with Volunteers and motivate the Parents and Children 

III. Bring the Children to the School for enrollment duly coordinating with concerned School Head Master

IV.If any Child is left out or not able to get enrolled, specify the reasons as a last resort V. Action taken shall be updated in the Consistent Rhythms APP without fail.

Role of Gram / Ward Volunteers:

1. Visit the each and every household of the Children who are found to be Dropout along with Welfare & Education Assistant / WEDPS 

II. Motivate the Parents and Children and get them enrolled in the Schools

6. The District Collectors shall ensure that all Children in the age group 4 to 14 years are in the school and no Child is out of School. The services of District GSWS Officer In-charge and DLDOS may be utilized for effective enrollment of School Dropouts. If any clarification is required may contact Sri T. Sudhakar, Superintendent, IT Cell (Mobile No.9866156611, Email: sudhaakarun@apschooledu.in) who is the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for coordinating the above subject.

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