On 25th December , Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma said that the Assam government has awarded the best performing schools in the State Education Department’s yearly evaluation programme ‘Gunoutsav’. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma distributed Rs. 25,000 to each of the 4,841 schools that secured A+ grade during a programme held at the Veterinary college playground in Khanapara, Guwahati.
The chief Minister also awarded the the districts with the highest number of A+ grade schools with 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes. Sharma referring to Gunotsav as an alternative method to measure the quality of education in schools over the traditional system of written examination ,termed it a process of continuous evaluation that enables the stakeholders to focus on the strong as well as the weak points as far as imparting of education is concerned.