Incentive for schools with best performance in exam from 2009

Imphal, February 18 : The new scheme of the Manipur government, Grant of Financial Assistant to Schools producing students with first division in the High School Leaving Certificate Exam conducted by the Board of Secondary Education Manipur (BSEM) will start implementation from this current year 2009, official source said.

Manipur government has recently announced that assistance and incentives will be provided to the schools irrespective of private, aided or government run that could produced students with first division in the HSLC exam.

The government announcement aims at to motivate the school, teachers and students to perform leading to an overall improvement of the academic scenario in the state.

Silent future of the scheme which government has decided to start implementation from this year stated that all schools whether government, aided or private in Manipur and affiliated to the BSEM are eligible for receipt of financial assistance under the scheme.

Quantum of grant of financial assistance will be in proportion to the number of students of the school passing in first division including percentage of marks in the annual HSLCE conducted by the BSEM.

That is the rate of financial assistance to be granted per students will be Rs 5000 for the students with 75% onwards and Rs 3000 per students for the students with but below 75% and above 60% .

The incentive will be distributed to the students, teachers and school management authorities.

That is, of the Rs 5000 incentive given to the school with a student getting above 75%, the student will get Rs 3000, school management and teachers will get Rs 10000 each.

The scheme has been taken up with a view to encouraging the students to perform better in the HSLC exam and also develop a sense of competitiveness.

Government will spend an estimated amount of Rs 1.23 crores annually in the implementation of the scheme and for this state education department which would be the implementing agency has earmarked Rs 2 crores in the current fiscal year, 2008-09 budget, the source said.

The amount has been estimated to the records of the students performances in the pass years HSLCE.

In 2008 exam, the source said 3842 students out of 24609 appeared in the exam got first division.

Out of the total 462 students are from the government school, 106 are from aided schools while 3274 are from the private schools.

The scheme will continue for a period till the performances of the schools in general comes upto a standard which will not warrant further incentives, the source maintained.