(1) The Government of Puducherry shall ensure providing of good quality education uniformly in all schools and to this end specify norms and standards in respect of all activities involving quality. These norms and standards shall supplement the norms and standards prescribed in the Schedule to the Act.
(2) At the school level, the Cluster Resource Person shall assist the Head of School to monitor quality and bring any lapses to the notice of the Inspecting Officer and Block Resource Co-ordinator in respect of infrastructure and learning levels and they shall take steps to rectify the lapses.
(3) The Government of Puducherry shall regularly monitor the levels of learning of children in all Government, aided and unaided schools having elementary classes through the Directorate of School Education and bring out annual reports on the quality of education in the Union Territory.
(4) Based upon these reports, the Directorate of School Education shall devise a mandatory remedial teaching programme in every class/subject for those children who have not been able to reach the expected learning levels.
(5) In order to ensure quality education in every school, the Government of Puducherry shall devise a continuous system of measurement of achievement for all classes, maintenance of portfolios for each child, devise remedial programmes and devise a system.
(6) The Government of Puducherry shall grade every school having elementary classes in the Union Territory on a set of quality parameters. The schools falling in the last two grades shall be targeted for remedial measures within a certain time-frame. They shall also be given opportunities to improve their grading periodically.
(7) The Government of Puducherry shall strengthen the monitoring mechanism of schools having elementary classes in the Union Territory and ensure quality based academic supervision of all schools periodically.
(8) The Government of Puducherry shall fix norms and standards in respect of availability of books/newspapers/magazines in the library, list of equipment in the laboratory, number of experiments to be conducted in science subjects in each class, number and types of educational visits that each school should undertake, maps, charts, sports and other equipment based upon the number of children studying in every school.
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PART–IV RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS