NEW DELHI: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) announced several initiatives on Friday to transform the education system in its schools by 2047. The civic body’s focus is on upgrading the infrastructure and the teaching system at all its schools under the Vision@2047 initiative of the central government. According to officials, the initiatives will also include encouraging children to use local language, transforming double-shift schools into single-shift ones, introducing the “no school bag policy”, and deputing a music teacher and another for arts and craft at each school.The civic body will focus on educating the students about gender equality from the early childhood stage. With this objective in mind, MCD is planning to transform the double-shift schools into single-shift ones so that boys and girls can interact from an early age, which is mandatory for inculcating the necessary values like respecting the opposite gender, said an official.To implement the ‘no school bag policy’ at all civic institutes, students will be provided two sets of books — one for the school and the other for home — so that they will not have to carry heavy bags. For all-round development of students, co-curricular activities will be promoted, and besides getting the music and art teachers for all schools, separate hours will be provided to integrate and increase such activities.In terms of the infrastructure upgrade, each school will be provided with adequate facilities for safe and hygienic drinking water for students and staff members by installing the required number of RO systems and water coolers. In every school, the education department will build a multipurpose hall equipped with all necessary equipment for enhancing various skills among students. Moreover, classrooms will also be renovated as per students’ needs, said an MCD official.To ensure a safer environment inside schools, at least one guard will be provided in each school. CCTV cameras with internet connectivity will be installed as per requirement for online monitoring of a school’s premises. The education department plans to start a disaster risk management safety tool and technique campaign for training both school staff and students.MCD is also working towards digitisation of the education system. The civic schools will be equipped with reliable technological infrastructure, students will have access to the best instructors, personalised learning tools in local languages and classrooms. The civic body is upgrading all its schools into smart schools, which will be equipped with a computer and the internet facility, projectors and sound systems to impart education through audio-visual means. Laptops and iPads will be provided to teachers to keep the student data, virtual teaching-learning material, and teaching aids. School campuses will be made free Wi-Fi zones in the next few years, claimed an MCD official.
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