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Deccan Herald
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Deccan Herald
Seven years after formation, 50 new Karnataka taluks lack Block education offices
Kalaburagi: The absence of block education offices (BEO) has been disrupting the education system in 50 of the 61 new taluks announced by the state government more than seven years ago. This is considered as one the factors crippling the quality of education in schools, causing adverse effect on the examination education department set up BEO offices in temporary buildings in very few new taluks. Experts feel that full-fledged buildings are essential for the proper functioning of state government had announced new taluks in January 2018. The education department had earlier obtained the data on number of schools, students, geographical area and other details to be brought under the new block education offices. But measures were not taken to establish these offices. Therefore, the existing BEO offices are overburdened with several academic activities including midday meals, supply of textbooks, uniforms, maintaining records about teachers and preparation of time-bound experts have suggested appointment of two separate block education officers for administrative and academic purposes in the backward taluks where education standard is very poor. They argue that the block education officers hardly get time to leave their office and visit the schools as they are overburdened by administrative panel for shuffling of education blocks.'The Department of Pre-University Education has been merged with the Department of School Education. Therefore, the government should appoint principals of government PU colleges as block education officers. They should be assigned the task of mobilising academic resources in their blocks,' educationist Z N Jagirdar a six-member committee headed by economist Chaya Degaonkar has suggested immediate measures for establishment of BEO offices in 14 new taluks in Kalyana Karnataka districts which have been lagging behind in SSLC and PUC results. The Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB) had formed the committee which submitted its interim report recently..'It has become difficult for existing block education officers to monitor both administrative and academic activities because 'per block cluster-teachers' are more in Kalyana Karnataka. Therefore, we have advised the KKRDB to focus on establishing BEO offices,' she School Education and Literacy Minister Madhu Bangarappa said that the government will take measures to build full-fledged BEO offices in the next two years..'The administrative work will collapse without BEO offices which supervise all works including supply of shoes, uniforms, books. Therefore, I have directed the education officials to make temporary arrangements to set up BEO offices in some new taluks. We have land to construct these offices. But, there is no budgetary allocation in the education department for this purpose. Therefore, the chief minister has assured to provide funds to build these offices,' the minister said.
Deccan Herald
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Deccan Herald
Seven years after formation, 50 new taluks lack Block education offices
Kalaburagi: The absence of block education offices (BEO) has been disrupting the education system in 50 of the 61 new taluks announced by the state government more than seven years ago. This is considered as one the factors crippling the quality of education in schools, causing adverse effect on the examination education department set up BEO offices in temporary buildings in very few new taluks. Experts feel that full-fledged buildings are essential for the proper functioning of state government had announced new taluks in January 2018. The education department had earlier obtained the data on number of schools, students, geographical area and other details to be brought under the new block education offices. But measures were not taken to establish these offices. Therefore, the existing BEO offices are overburdened with several academic activities including midday meals, supply of textbooks, uniforms, maintaining records about teachers and preparation of time-bound experts have suggested appointment of two separate block education officers for administrative and academic purposes in the backward taluks where education standard is very poor. They argue that the block education officers hardly get time to leave their office and visit the schools as they are overburdened by administrative panel for shuffling of education blocks.'The Department of Pre-University Education has been merged with the Department of School Education. Therefore, the government should appoint principals of government PU colleges as block education officers. They should be assigned the task of mobilising academic resources in their blocks,' educationist Z N Jagirdar a six-member committee headed by economist Chaya Degaonkar has suggested immediate measures for establishment of BEO offices in 14 new taluks in Kalyana Karnataka districts which have been lagging behind in SSLC and PUC results. The Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB) had formed the committee which submitted its interim report recently..'It has become difficult for existing block education officers to monitor both administrative and academic activities because 'per block cluster-teachers' are more in Kalyana Karnataka. Therefore, we have advised the KKRDB to focus on establishing BEO offices,' she School Education and Literacy Minister Madhu Bangarappa said that the government will take measures to build full-fledged BEO offices in the next two years..'The administrative work will collapse without BEO offices which supervise all works including supply of shoes, uniforms, books. Therefore, I have directed the education officials to make temporary arrangements to set up BEO offices in some new taluks. We have land to construct these offices. But, there is no budgetary allocation in the education department for this purpose. Therefore, the chief minister has assured to provide funds to build these offices,' the minister said.
The Hindu
10-06-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Expert committee on education in Kalyana Karnataka submits interim report
The eight-member committee formed by the State Government to improve the educational scenario in the Kalyana Karnataka region submitted its interim report in Kalaburagi on June 9. The committee will submit its final report tentatively in the first week of September 2025. In its interim report, the committee has made major recommendations in three categories, including Immediate short-term recommendations to be implemented in the 2nd and 3rd examinations of this academic year and the next year; the short-term recommendations to be implemented by the 2025-26 academic year; and the medium-term recommendations to be executed in the next three-year period (2025-28). In immediate short-term recommendations, the committee suggested Additional classes in schools with less than 40% results Marusinchana and Kalikasare-based teaching Procuring the workbooks immediately Focusing on low performing subjects Continuous assignments to improve writing skills Weekly reports on activities, assignments, valuation and performance on each student End-to-end action to be taken by authorities (Deputy Director for Public Instructions) Teaching and learning interventions should begin from class 8 Adopting innovative methods, teacher accountability and community participation In short-term recommendations, the committee advised Improve the monitoring and supervision mechanism by establishment additional block education offices (BEOs) Establish 14 new BEOs in addition to 34 existing BEOs Fill up teacher vacancies Continuation of Akshara Avishkara scheme by establishing a project management unit for the programme The medium-term recommendations include Better positioning of existing government schools Establishing new 200 Karnataka Public Schools in the next two years Focus on increasing student enrolment, transition rate Check drop-outs at secondary level Improve learning outcomes The interim report stressed on initial assessment at the beginning of the school in June to diagnose students' grade specific learning abilities. BEOs should fix school specific targets and entrust the accountability to achieve targets. The report observed that capacity building of teachers should be a continuous process, reducing the non-academic workload on teachers, improving teaching-learning skills in English language, and improving learning and writing skills in Kannada language. The committee is led by economist Chaya Degaonkar. The members are Abdul Qadeer, Mallikarjun M. S., Fr. Francis Bashyam , Rudresh S., N.B. Patil, Yeshwanth Harsur and Ngabai B. Bulla.
