Awards
The School & Mass Education Department has adopted an action plan under the initiative which emphasizes on provide good governance to the people of the state. The initiative targets to encourage the involvement of Schools, elected local bodies, SMC/SMDC and alumni for infrastructural transformation in schools, reshape the school processes thereby making schools happier learning places. High School Transformation Program is rolled out in high schools of the state and the program has led to the creation of high quality, world class and not-seen-before assets in the selected High Schools of Odisha such as the smart classrooms, science laboratory, e-library, drinking water and sanitation facilities along with a beautiful school ambience.
Under One Governance approach, six task forces were formed to suggest S & ME department on various components of transformation in high school education. The task force on Awards, Greenery, Sports, Arts & Crafts has made recommendations to make School Education ecosystem aspirational by recognizing and rewarding the efforts of all stakeholders and to improve performance, enhance talent and prepare educational leaders of High School Education & Elementary Education. The task force report was accepted by Government of Odisha vide letter no 10096/SME Dated 11.05.2022. The S & ME department after careful consideration on the recommendations and existing schemes, has proposed to introduce Mukhyamantri Shikhya Puraskar for best performing Districts, Blocks, Schools, Head Teachers, Teachers, Elected PRIs, SMC/SMDCs and Alumni Committees. The Mukhyamantri Shikhya Puraskar incentivizes and rewards students and stakeholders at all levels of the education ecosystem in Odisha to
- Recognize, Reward and Incentivize good preforming stakeholders at all levels and set them on the path to be the education leaders of the future.
- Reward, Recognize and Incentivize students to excel in academics and to make them socially and emotionally aware citizens.
- Create healthy competition amongst districts, blocks, clusters and schools leading to holistic improvement of the school education ecosystem.
Every Year, the S & ME Department undertakes the process and deliver following awards.
A. Individual Awards
A.1. Student Awards
Cash and Scholarship awards are given to students at all levels in order to reward, recognize and incentivize them to excel in academics and to make them socially and emotionally aware citizens.
- The students who are awarded at State level are not considered at District & Block levels.
- The students who are awarded at District level are not considered at Block levels.
- On selection of the same student for any other award under the student award, the HM will select another student with leadership skills for the student leadership award from the school.
- A student selected for the Student Academic Award as well as the Student Merit-cum-Scholarship Award shall receive the award as well as the reward sum for both.
Other Individual Awards
In order to recognize, reward and incentivize good preforming stakeholders at all levels and set them on the path to be the education leaders of the future, the state incentivizes them with individual awards.
B. Institutional Awards 1
- Institutional Awards are awarded to Districts, Blocks and Schools.
- These awards are different from individual awards as they would be given to institutions for their development and enhancement.
B.1 District Awards:
- Top 3 districts in the state are rewarded a cash incentive of INR 3 crores, 2 crores and 1 crore respectively based on the performance of districts as per the District Award rubric.
- The cash incentive is used by the Collector & DM in developing and enhancing the school ecosystem in the district such as construction of additional classrooms; reforming DIETs; incubating new innovation programs such as volunteer programs, parent education programs/adult literacy, etc; driving large-scale campaigns for enrolment of Out of School Children; development of resource centres for district; professional and leadership courses for field officers as well as for teachers/HMs.
B.2 Block Awards:
- At the state level, the top 10 blocks will be awarded with a cash incentive of ₹50,00,000 each based on the Block Award rubric.
- The cash incentive is used by the BDO in developing and enhancing the schooling ecosystem in the Block such as construction of additional classrooms; incubating new innovation programs such as volunteer programs, parent education programs/adult literacy, etc; driving large-scale campaigns for enrolment of Out of School Children; development of resource centres for Block; professional and leadership courses for field officers as well as for teachers/HMs.
B.3 School Awards (Secondary)
B.4 SMC Awards
B.5 Alumni Committee Awards
B.6 Gram PAnchayat Awards
C. Individual Awards 2
These Awards include HM Award and Teacher Award at Elementary school level.
C.1 HM Award (Elementary)
C.2 Teacher Award (Elementary)
D. Institutional Awards 2
E. Institutional Awards 3
E.1 DIET Award
Top 3 DIETS in the state is awarded INR 10,00,000/- each on the basis of score in DIET Rubric. The award amount is used by the DIETs professional development of the faculties.