Gunotsav’s Sixth Edition in Three Phases, External Evaluation Begins From January 7, 2025

The Assam Sarba Siksha Abhiyan Mission has officially announced the schedule for the 6th round of Gunotsav 2025, an important educational evaluation program from the state government-run schools. The notification, issued by Narayan Konwar, IAS, Mission Director of Samagra Shiksha, Assam, outlines the dates and phases for the upcoming evaluations.

The program is set to take place from January 6th to February 9th, 2025, encompassing all the districts across Assam. The evaluation of the Karimganj district will be held in Phase I, whereas evaluation for Hailakandi and Cachar will be in the second and third phases respectively.

The phase-wise schedule is as follows:

Phase I:
– Self Evaluation Date: January 6, 2025
– External Evaluation Dates: January 7, 8, and 9, 2025
– Districts Covered: Barpeta, Bajali, Karimganj, Kamrup, Karbi Anglong, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Sibsagar, South Salmara-Mankachar, Udalguri
– Total Districts: 11

Phase II:
– Self Evaluation Date: January 18, 2025
– External Evaluation Dates: January 20, 21, and 22, 2025
– Districts Covered: Baksa, Chirang, Charaideo, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Golaghat, Hailakandi, Hojai, Jorhat, Kamrup (Metro), Sonitpur, Tamulpur, Tinsukia
– Total Districts: 13

Phase III:
– Self Evaluation Date: February 6, 2025
– External Evaluation Dates: February 7, 8, and 9, 2025
– Districts Covered: Bongaigaon, Biswanath, Darrang, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Cachar, Nalbari, Morigaon, Dima Hasao, Majuli, West Karbi Anglong
– Total Districts: 11

Additionally, it has been noted that the evaluations for Bajali and Tamulpur will be conducted by the Barpeta and Baksa districts, respectively.

Gunotsav is a State Government initiative for the improvement of the quality of school education. The four core areas viz. Scholastic (learning outcomes of children), Co-scholastic, Infrastructure and community participation are evaluated in the Gunotsav exercise. Schools are graded as A+, A, B, C and D based on performance(90% on Scholastic, 5% each on Co-scholastic & other areas and Community Participation & Contributions). This exercise helps in identifying the learning gaps and ensuring appropriate remedial measures for attaining grade-specific learning outcomes by all children.

In 2024, the Gunotsav exercise was held in January and February in the different districts of Assam, in a similar phase-wise manner. As per the 2024 executive statement and the results declared, in the district-wise rankings, Cachar ranked 13, Hailakandi stood at 17 and Karimganj was at rank 20 out of the 33 districts.