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MANDATE OF THE DEPARTMENT: |
(a) Secondary education is the
education of the adolescents- the most
storming, yet most formative years of
human life. Building on the childhood,
human beings graduate to adulthood
through adolescents as productive
members of the society. Thus,
development of a society or a state or a
nation is inseparable from education of
the adolescents and secondary education.
Given the stage of our national
development, secondary education
provides the largest single educated,
though unskilled, manpower to all
sectors of economy. Secondary education
has, hence, the single most significance
to national development.
(b) Higher education that guards the
development of frontiers of our nation
stands on the shoulder of secondary
education. A weak shoulder can offer
only weak support. Primary education
draws its teaching personnel from
secondary education; weak secondary
education can hardly produce strong and
dependable teachers for our primary
schools. It is necessary to understand
the seminal importance of secondary
education as the connecting link in the
educational structure.
(c) Though expansion of secondary
Education has not been on the agenda of
policies on education, improvement of
its quality has been recognised as a
major concern. This very concern was the
basis of setting up of the Secondary
Education Commission in India (1953)
with the objective to diagnose the
growth pattern of secondary education
and suggested measures for its
reorganization and improvement.
Subsequently, the Report of the
Education Commission (1964-66) also
looked into different aspects of
development of secondary education. It
articulated goals and objectives of
education for all stages in the context
of national development priorities. The
National Policy on Education, 1986
recommended the implementation of a
national curricular framework with a
common structure (10+2+3) throughout the
country. It also envisaged the building
of a national system of education in
which all students will have access to
education of a comparable quality along
with providing condition for access. The
Programme of Action (POA), 1992 worked
out modalities for implementation of the
NPE and specified programmes for
development of facilities for
qualitative improvement of education.
(d) The POA 1992 recognised the
increased demand for secondary education
and backed the NPE 1986 by calling for a
planned expansion of secondary education
facilities all over the country. The
need for higher participation of girls,
SC/ST, transformation and reorganization
of Boards for secondary education and
vesting them with autonomy so that they
have the ability to improve the quality
of secondary education, equipping the
secondary level institutions with
computers so that the children develop
necessary computer skills to be
effective in ongoing developments in
technological world was stressed.
(e) The success of SSA will definitely
generate higher demand for secondary
education and therefore, it is necessary
to undertake planned interventions for
expansion and quality improvement of
secondary education.
(f) The Directorate of Secondary
Education functioning under the
Education Department of Assam is
responsible for administrative control,
Development & Expansion, Inspection &
Supervision, Monitoring & Evaluation of
Secondary and Higher Secondary Education
including Jr. College with + 2 stage of
Higher Secondary Section.
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Our Vision |
Every child in school Every child learns
Every Teacher imparts teaching regularly Every teacher gets training Every Community member realises need of
education Every school functions regularly Every school is visited frequently Every educational authority functions as
duty bound Every School is made attractive
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Composition of Board of
Secondary education |
1. Although the Elementary Education
has been clearly defined in the
Constitution of India as the school
education for the children up to the age
of 14 years, in our state, education of
the children of 14 year (i.e.
class-VIII) has been continuing as a
part of Secondary Education since the
time immemorial. On the other hand, a
large number of students of Classes V to
VII studying in composite secondary
schools which are under the
administrative control of the Director
of Secondary Education. The classroom
transactions in those schools are lying
un-supervised and the teachers are also
not trained in view of the existing
administrative barrier and ongoing
system of budgeting.
2. The National Policy of Education,
1986 as amended in 1992 and the POA
prepared hereunder, has defined the 12
year School Education as 5+3+2+2= 12.
The +2 stage of the school education in
Assam is now governed under “ The Assam
Higher Secondary Education Act, 1985”.
Although the +2 stages are part and
parcel of the school education as per “
The Assam Higher Secondary Education
Act, 1985”, a large portion of this
stage is still continuing in most of the
Degree Colleges, even after the adoption
of the Assam Higher Secondary Education
Act in 1985. Since this stage is not
covered under Higher Education, the UGC
is not providing any financial help to
the Degree Colleges for this purpose.
So, it has become the burden on the
Degree Colleges as well as Higher
Education Sector in our state. On the
other hand, most of the Higher Secondary
Schools/ Junior Colleges are functioning
with inadequate number of students.
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Our Statutory
Regulations |
(a) “The Assam Secondary Education (Provincialisation)
Act, 1977”.
(b) “The Assam Secondary Education Act,
1961” for constitution of the Board of
Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA).
(c) “The Assam Higher Secondary
Education Act, 1984 for constitution of
the Assam Higher Secondary Education
Council (AHSEC).
(d) “The Assam Madrassa Education (provincialisation)
Act, 1995 for provincialisation of the
services of the employees of the senior
Madrassa, Title Madrassa and Arabic
College.”
(e) “The Assam Non-Government
Educational Institutions (Regulation and
Management) Act, 2006.
(f) “The Assam Non-Government
Educational Institutions (Regulation and
Management) Rules, 2007.
(g) Assam Secondary Education (Provincialisation)
service Rule-2003.
(h) The Assam Govt. Aided Junior College
Management Rules 2001.
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About our Directorate |
Initially all the stages of education
including Medical and Technical were
under the control of a single state
level organisation which was popularly
known as Directorate Public Instruction
(DPI). This Directorate was created in
1874. Subsequently, separate structures
have been created for different stages
of education, such as Medical and
Technical and the DPI was looking after
the general education only. On 5th
September 1975, the Elementary Education
has been separated from the DPI and a
separate Directorate has been created on
7.7.77 for Elementary Education.
Thereafter, the DPI was responsible only
for Secondary and Higher Education. But
on 29th March 1985, the State Government
vide its notification No. AR. 20/85/1,
the Secondary stage has again been
separated by creating a new Directorate
for Secondary Education and post of the
then DPI has been redesignated as
Director of Higher Education. So, the
present structure of the Directorate of
Secondary Education, Assam has been
continuing since 29th March 1985.
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Administrative Oganogram |
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District Level
Machinery |
1. |
Inspector of
Schools, Barpeta |
Visit |
2. |
Inspector of Schools, Bongaigaon |
Visit |
3. |
Inspector of Schools, Cachar |
Visit |
4. |
Inspector of Schools, Darrang |
Visit |
5. |
Inspector of Schools, Dhemaji |
Visit |
6. |
Inspector of Schools, Dhubri |
Visit |
7. |
Inspector of Schools, Dibrugarh |
Visit |
8. |
Inspector of Schools, Goalpara |
Visit |
9. |
Inspector of Schools, Golaghat |
Visit |
10. |
Inspector of Schools, Hailakandi |
Visit |
11. |
Inspector of Schools, Jorhat |
Visit |
12. |
Inspector of Schools, Kamrup |
Visit |
13. |
Inspector of Schools, Karbi Anglong |
Visit |
14. |
Inspector of Schools, Karimganj |
Visit |
15. |
Inspector of Schools, Kokrajhar |
Visit |
16. |
Inspector of Schools, Lakhimpur |
Visit |
17. |
Inspector of Schools, Morigaon |
Visit |
18. |
Inspector of Schools, N.C.Hills |
Visit |
19. |
Inspector of Schools, Nagaon |
Visit |
20. |
Inspector of Schools, Nalbari |
Visit |
21. |
Inspector of Schools, Sibsagar |
Visit |
22. |
Inspector of Schools, Sonitpur |
Visit |
23. |
Inspector of Schools, Tinsukia |
Visit |
24. |
Inspector of Schools, Chirang |
Yet to be Sanctioned |
25. |
Inspector of Schools, Baska |
26. |
Inspector of Schools, Odalguri |
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Statutory
Organisations |
(a)
Board of Secondary Education (SEBA)
Assam.
(b) Assam Higher Secondary Education
Council (AHSEC) Assam.
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Current
Functions Assigned to the Directorate |
(a)
Formulation of Five year and Annual
Plans
(b) Formulation of Budget estimate,
performance Budget, Control of budgets
of both Plan & Non Plan.
(c) Maintenance of appropriation and
re-appropriation accounts and audits;
(d) Setting of Physical targets and
monitoring of achievements
(e) Implementation of various Plan
scheme.
(f) Collection and compilation of
various Educational Statistics and
submission of report/return thereof.
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Our Staff
strength |
Category |
Sanctioned
strength |
Total staff in
position |
Class I |
641 |
226 |
Class II |
8850 |
8478 |
Class III |
43056 |
39729 |
Class IV |
6489 |
6009 |
Total: |
59036 |
54442 |
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