Goa planning to achieve cent per cent literacy: Faleiro Panaji: Goa Education Minister Luizinho Faleiro today said the government was planning to introduce mobile schools at primary and middle level in order to achieve cent per cent literacy in the State.
Mr Faleiro told mediapersons here that the government was keen on improving the quality and competence of graduates in technical education. He also expressed concern over the fact that 600 polytechnic students had to stay at home for not being allowed to attend classes consequent to their failure and accumulation of backlog in diploma courses. The Board of Technical Education had earlier introduced Rule 5(E), forbidding students, who had accumulated more than 10 backlog courses, from registering to attend the classes. The rule was formulated in 2004 and approved by the Board for implementation in 2005. However, since the students of the current batch were not informed about the rule at the time of their registration in 2003-04, they would be exempted from it, the Minister said. A high-level five member committee was also set up to look into the upgradation of diploma level education, so as to ensure quality and industrial relevance of the courses and employment capability of the graduates, Mr Faleiro said. The committee would also look into the existing courses, requirements of new courses and involvement of industry in monitoring diploma-level education and would give a report to the government within 45 days, he added