The mention of Chitrakoot district in Bundelkhand conjures up images of poverty and drought, but last month, it was one of the two districts to receive accolades for implementing Samagra Shiksha, a scheme floated by the Ministry of Education with an emphasis on holistic education for school children. Chitrakoot stood out as one of the two best districts from nearly 1,200 applications received across categories for the Prime Minister’s Excellence Awards in Public Administration.
Abhishek Anand (32), an IAS officer of the 2014 batch and the current District Magistrate (DM) of Chitrakoot told The Hindu that a team of 900 government officials had worked extremely hard over the past year to give Chitrakoot’s government schools a massive facelift.
“As a result, enrolment in 1,256 government schools for Class 1 to 8 increased by 10% from 1.48 lakh in March 2022 to 1.61 lakh in March 2023. What is more heartening is that 60% of the increased pool were girl students,” he said.
