Rupesh Samant

Panaji, Aug 2: Goa government will implement the National Educational Policy in the state from coming academic year onwards which will restructure the entire schooling pattern, chief minister Pramod Sawant told the House.

Responding to Demands for Grants on the floor of the House, Sawant said that the existing system of middle-school will cease to exist from coming Academic year after the implementation of National Educational Policy.

“The policy will bring in huge change in educational scenario in the state,” he said.

Explaining the schooling pattern under new policy, Sawant said that for the first three years for the student of age between 3-6 (pre-primary to second standard) will be they will be given pre-school education.
“For the students between third, forth and fifth standard would be called as preparatory education, while next three years of standard sixth, seventh and eighth will be classified as middle-class while the standards of ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelth would be considered as secondary education,” he said.

Sawant, who holds education portfolio, said that Goa has around 100 aided schools that has less than 100 students despite the fact that all the facilities are extended to these institutions.

The chief minister said that the state government is considering the possibility of amalgamating these schools with the nearby facility (school) from next academic year onwards.