Gunotsav is a state Government initiative for improvement of quality of school education. The four core areas viz. Scholastic (learning outcomes of children), Co-scholastic, Infrastructure and community participation are evaluated in Gunotsav exercise. Schools are graded as A+, A, B, C and D on the basis of 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 taking appropriate remedial measures for attaining grade specific learning outcomes by all children. Considering the importance of Gunotsav exercise, Govt. has already been issued notification regarding incorporation of schedule of Gunotsav in Academic Calendar of the school. Gunotsav 2024 (fifth round) has been scheduled in the month January and February 2024 in three (03) phases.
There will be both Self Evaluation and External Evaluation. For school, evaluation will be for two days (Day-1 Self Evaluation and Day -2 External evaluation) and for state, evaluation will be for four days (Day-1 Self Evaluation and Day-2, 3, 4 External evaluation). Scholastic evaluation will be for class I to IX. All Government/Provincialised/Tea Garden Model Schools/Tea Garden Managed Schools/ Adarsha Vidyalayas/ KGBVs/ Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Avasiya Vidyalayas (Residential Schools) of Elementary and Secondary level will be covered. The districts will be covered in three phases. Schools of each district will be distributed over three days for external evaluation. 100% schools will be evaluated.
Hon’ble Chief Minister, Hon’ble Minister, Hon’ble MPs, Hon’ble MLAs, Chief Secretary to the GOA, Senior IAS, IPS and IFS officers and other class I & II officers of the state are engaged as External Evaluator in the exercise. The whole exercise will be conducted following a robust mechanism with use of technology- OMR based evaluation (from Class–III onwards, students fill up the OMR sheet themselves), reshuffling of teachers within cluster on the day of External evaluation through randomization software to carry out their duties in different schools in a transparent manner etc.. The External Evaluators will submit School Evaluation with modification, changes, if any and also their confidential report through portal.
