Outreach to community through different campaigns, rallies, marches and others demanding for effective GR mechanism: As part of this, the following activities were undertaken: Awareness Campaign on Grievance Redressal: A circular No.F.23 (l4)/RTE/2012-13/962-965 dated 25.04.2014 was notifying a issued by Directorate of Education on grievance redressal mechanism of registering complains regarding RTE implementation. Before this, there was no such mechanism to deal with complaints under RTE Act. We held total 10 camps & 2 large rallies this year in Trilok Puri for creating awareness amongst the community and through these camps we reached out to more 500 people and made them aware about the procedure for filing grievance. More than 300 grievances were filed during this process under grievance mechanism. These complaints were focused on major problems relating to pupil-teachers ratio, and school system infrastructure, teachers’ insensitive behaviour and denial of admission. Amongst the complaints filed only those complaints pertaining to denial of admission were redressed by the Department of Education, others still remains pending as of date. We are pursuing these grievances. Toilet Campaign for Girls: After call of the Prime Minister from the Red Fort on the occasion of Independence Day on 15th of August, this year, about the importance of hygiene in toilets of schools, JOSH organized signature campaign for girls in which school student were encouraged to write to the PM an appeal letter mentioning about the poor state of toilets in their schools and urging him to look into the matter. These letters were addresses to the PM and mailed to the PMO. Copies of the letter were marked to the Lieutenant-Governor, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, and the Directorate of Education of the Delhi Government and local Member of Parliament. A total of 2500 appeal letters were sent, out of which 70% were written by girls only. In these appeal letters girls wrote about the
Outreach to community through different campaigns, rallies, marches and others demanding for effective GR mechanism: As part of this, the following activities were undertaken: Awareness Campaign on Grievance Redressal: A circular No.F.23 (l4)/RTE/2012-13/962-965 dated 25.04.2014 was issued by Directorate of Education on grievance redressal notifying a mechanism of registering complains regarding RTE implementation. Before this, there was no such mechanism to deal with complaints under RTE Act. We held total 10 camps & 2 large rallies this year in Trilok Puri for creating awareness amongst the community and through these camps we reached out to more 500 people and made them aware about the procedure for filing grievance. More than 300 grievances were filed during this process under grievance mechanism. These complaints were focused on major problems relating to pupil-teachers ratio, infrastructure, teachers’ insensitive behaviour and school system and denial of admission. Amongst the complaints filed only those complaints pertaining to denial of admission were redressed by the Department of Education, others still remains pending as of date. We are pursuing these grievances. Toilet Campaign for Girls: After call of the Prime Minister from the Red Fort on the occasion of Independence Day on 15th of August, this year, about the importance of hygiene in toilets of schools, JOSH organized signature campaign for girls in which school student were encouraged to write to the PM an appeal letter mentioning about the poor state of toilets in their schools and urging him to look into the matter. These letters were addresses to the PM and mailed to the PMO. Copies of the letter were marked to the Lieutenant-Governor, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, and the Directorate of Education of the Delhi Government and local Member of Parliament. A total of 2500 appeal letters were sent, out of which 70% were written by girls only. In these appeal letters girls wrote about the
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