Churu : Churu The controversy regarding conducting the half-yearly examination during winter vacation had just subsided when a new problem arose regarding this examination. Youth Mahotsav is being organized by Rajasthan Youth Board. The dates of this festival and the half-yearly examination of the education department are clashing with each other. Due to this, teachers and students are facing a dilemma as to what to do. Teachers should make children prepare for the Youth Festival or children should prepare for half-yearly examinations. Youth aged between 15 years to 29 years are being registered for this festival. All the CBEO offices in the district have been given the target of registering at least 15 children from all the senior secondary schools under them. On the other hand, pressure is being put repeatedly on the heads of senior schools from CBEO offices to register at least 15 children. Some principals have been put on deputation to CBEO offices to monitor the registration.
Let us tell you that now children above 15 years of age study from 9th to 12th class. Their half-yearly examination will be held from 17th December to 27th December, while the Youth Board has organized Block level Youth Mahotsav from 30th November to 10th December, District level Youth Mahotsav from 11th December to 17th December and Division level Youth Mahotsav from 18th December to 25th December. The date for the festival has been fixed. The festival will be held any day on these dates, but half-yearly examinations are also on these dates. In such a situation, children are not getting registered.
Krishnakumar Saini, state vice president of the National Teachers Association, says that even though the youth festival will be held for one day, two to three days of the children will be wasted in one day, hence the dates of the festival should be changed. If this does not happen then school children should be kept out of the festival. In this regard, the state officer of the union will talk to Elementary Education Director Sitaram Jat in Jaipur on Tuesday. Will also write letters to CM and Education Minister. Meanwhile, State Vice President of Teachers Association Shekhawat Bhanwarlal Kaswan says that half-yearly examinations are being held from December 17, hence teachers and students do not want to take any risk. Since the block and district level festivals are to be held till 17th December, keeping in view the exam preparation of the students, the festival should be organized after the exams. Here, for the first time the half-yearly examination is being held at the state level, hence the principal does not want to commit any mistake. On the other hand, they retreated from the target of CBEO office regarding Youth Festival and there is a danger of accountability. A principal of a senior school in the city said that each school has been given a target of registering 15-15 children in the festival unannounced. ^Block level Mahotsav will be held from 10th December, District level 17th and Division level Youth Mahotsav from 18th to 25th December. The half-yearly examination will also be held as per the revised schedule from December 17. Right now there is no information about change in the date of Youth Festival. -Govind Singh Rathore, CDEO Churu Youth Mahotsav, a total of 961 registrations have been done in the district till Monday. Of these, there are 166 registrations in urban areas and 795 in rural areas.
192 registrations have been done in Bidasar block, 252 in Churu, 42 in Rajgarh, 22 in Ratangarh, 74 in Sardarshahar, 164 in Sujangarh and 47 in Taranagar block. Each block will get an organizing budget of Rs 72500 for the festival, while a budget of Rs 2.33 lakh is fixed for the district level event. There will be four types of activities in the Youth Mahotsav: There will be 4 types of activities in the Block and District Mahotsav. There will be activities related to science digital fair, cultural programs, life skills and youth work. If any youth is interested in this then he can participate in it. Due to exams, children are reluctant to participate in it.
