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EDU.03   ---   Administrative procedures to improve students' knowledge in important subjects





 
Section   1   :   Preamble
  The Act is to create an administrative procedure, using which, citizens can improve students' knowledge in several important subjects.

Section   2   : Deciding list of subjects.
2.1 The Municipal Council will select the list of subjects, education of which can reduce govt expenditure in maintaining law/order and improve military of the India. The City should/will subsidize education of ONLY these subjects and no other subjects from classes from Lower KG to XII, and subsidizing other subjects will create undue burden on citizens.
2.2 As a tenantive list, the City Education Officer will take following list of subjects whose knowledge in students in classes from Lower KG to XII he will seek to improve :
  1. Maths
  2. Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine)
  3. Education of Law and Administrative/Court procedures
  4. Local language and Hindi : basic vocabulary, grammer, sentence translation
  5. English :
    1. general vocabulary (list of 2000-5000 basic words)
    2. technical vocabulary (English words that are used Maths, Sciences, Engineering and Medicine)
    3. grammer
    4. English to Hindi sentence translation
    5. Hindi to English sentence translation
    6. English to local language sentence translation
    7. Local language to English sentence translation
    8. Technical composition : writing techinical articles,
    9. Legal composition : writing contracts, writing legal letters
  6. Geography
  7. Historical Information --- dealing with names, dates, events etc.
  8. Electrinics and computer programming
The City Council may make addition/deletion in the above list.

Section   3   : Deciding question sets, conducting exams etc
3.1 For each subject, the Education Officer will himself, or via employees, prepare list of 2000 to 10000 multiple choice questions for 48 quarters of 3 months each i.e. 12 years.
3.2 For each subject, the City Education Officer will conduct following exams in a month
  1. Maths, class I-XII : 4 exams per month
  2. Science for classes I-VIII : 1-3 exams per month
  3. Physics for classes IX-XII : 1-2 exams per months
  4. Chemistry for classes IX-XII : 1-2 exams per month
  5. Biology for classes IX-XII : 1 exam per month
  6. Human Biology, Health and Medicine for classes IX-XII : 1 exam per month
  7. Law and administrative/court procedures for classes I-XII : 2 exams per month
  8. Local language for classes I-V : 1 exam per month
  9. Hindi for classes I-V : 1 exams per month
  10. English for classes, I-XII : 2 exams per month
  11. Geography for classes, I-VIII : 2 exams per month
  12. Historical Information, classes I-VIII : 1 exams per month
  13. Electronics and computer programming, classes I-XII : 2 exams per month
Depending on availibility of the terminals, the Education Officer may conduct fewer exams. The City Council, or citizens via Direct Vote, may increase/decrease number of exams in each subjects.

The Education Officer will ensure that questions are from the list of questions published, and that each student gets 50-100 questions chosen at random, though ALL students may NOT get SAME questions (though he should make an attempt to see that ALL students in a perticular class get the SAME questions).
3.3 The students (or his custodian, if he is below 14) will decide the teacher of the subjects, who may be same or different from the teachers at his school. Any person who wished to be a teacher may register himself at Registrar's office by paying a fee of Rs 50/mo. A student can specify his teacher for any subject by visting Registrar's office, and specifying the subject, his teacher's name and number. The student can change the teacher any day any month. The Registrar will inform the teacher about the changes in the students'selection. The Registrar may charge a fee from the student for this selection.
3.4 The awards will depend on the score and will be as follows
  1. The students who have secured score below Mean/2 will get NO reward.
  2. The students who have scored between Mean/2 to and Mean will get an award of Rs 10.
  3. The students who have scored above Mean and 3/2*Mean will get award of Rs 20.
  4. And the students who have scored in top 1% will get an award of Rs 30.
The teachers of these students will get the SAME award as well.
3.5 The Education Officer may uniformly scale down the rewards depending on the funds allocated to him for rewards by the City Council. The Education Officer will make payments every 4 months in the bank accounts specified by the students and teachers.

Section   4   : Other Details
4.1 The rupee amount used in this text uses July-2000 price levels. The standing committee can adjust the amounts every six months using RBI’s Inflation Index.
4.2 If the officer does not execute a procedure or ignores an instruction stated in this Resolution/Act, a citizen can file a complaint before the Grand Jurors. In case there are is no Grand Jury, the citizens can appeal to the Mayor to setup a Grand Jury. But under this law, a citizen cannot complaint before Mayor, Corporators, CM, MLAs, PM, or MPs.
4.3 The Jurors will judge this Act, guidelines, intentions as well as the facts related to the case


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