District admn launches Chetna Edu Tour Programme

In a unique initiative to familiarise school students with the functioning of various government departments, the district administration has launched the ‘Chetna Educational Tour Programme’. Under the programme, the students will get an opportunity to closely observe, understand and gain hands-on experience of the working processes in different departments/offices.

Presiding over a meeting with officials of various departments, DC Himanshu Aggarwal said the programme would commence on August 22. Under it, every Friday, a total of 150 students — divided into six batches of 25 each — will be taken to visit various government offices.

Aggarwal said the objective of the initiative was to make school students aware of government procedures, so that in the future, whenever they or their relatives needed to visit any office for official work, they had complete knowledge of the process and could get their work done without any hindrance.

He said the students would be taken to service centres, sub-registrar offices, MCs, police stations, Saanjh centres, courts, RTO offices, banks and other government institutions. There, they would gain detailed knowledge about office procedures, documentation processes and online services.

The DC directed the secretary of the Red Cross Society to coordinate in advance with the departments concerned and government/private schools for the purpose. He also asked the officials of the respective departments to actively cooperate in making this initiative a large-scale success by enhancing the students’ knowledge and educating them about official procedures.

Earlier, while presiding over another meeting, DC Himanshu Aggarwal said under the Chetna Project, the district administration, in collaboration with the Red Cross Society, would provide basic life-saving skills training to students above the age of 14.

Aggarwal said the purpose of the initiative was to train students in methods to save the life of a patient/injured person before they reached a doctor during a medical emergency or accident, so that precious lives could be saved.

He added that under the project, apart from students of classes X, XI and XII, university, college, ITI and polytechnic students would be given training by experts. Under the Chetna Project, the administration has successfully conducted such training for students in the past as well. The DC instructed the officials of the departments concerned present in the meeting to ensure the necessary arrangements in this regard.