Sh. Virbhadra Singh, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh launched the integrated Department of Education website http://himachal.nic.in/education and the Swayamsidham web portal http://rmsahimachal.nic.in on 27th August 2015 at Shimla. Speaking on the occasion, the Hon’ble C.M congratulated the Department of Education for their initiatives and mentioned that the project envisages to improve the learning experience and to build the capacity of teachers. He said that it was a step which enables all the schools to continuously engage themselves in self improvement and accountability and that it will also help the students to online search for the answers to their questions. Besides, it would help as a guiding tool for reference, research, analysis, synthesis, independent learning and application thereof and online interface to teachers and students of 9th and 10th so as to train them in upgrading their skills.
Swayam Sidham project, the first of its kind in the country has been developed with a view to make the schools self-reliant, self-supportive, self-accountable and techno-friendly and it will establish standards for teaching-learning, assessment, school leadership and management, he added. This will help to monitor on a continuous basis, the change in learning level of students and thus making the schools self-accountable. Sh. P.C. Dhiman, Addl. Chief Secretary (Education) told that the portal aims to make the schools techno-friendly. The website contains various links to lesson plans, question-banks, learning indicators prepared by teachers themselves during training programme. The content is available for class 9th and 10th. It also shows the subject books and board papers. He hoped that every school head holds monthly meeting with the teachers of his/ her school to discuss lesson plans of topics which are going to be taught in the coming month, focusing mainly on objectives, presentations, student’s tasks, question banks etc. Sh. D.C. Rana, Addl. Secretary (Education), Sh. Ghanshyam, State Project Director, RMSA and Dr. Anima Sharma, State Coordinator, who all are the driving forces behind the Swaymsidham project, were present on the occasion.