Guwahati: Stating the youth of the state must be mentored by the right persons so that they can contribute meaningfully to the society, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday said that all the IAS, IPS and IFS officers posted in the state should be able to inspire the youth to aim big and become worthy citizens of the country.
Inaugurating the mentoring programme “Arohan” here in the presence of 200 IAS, IPS and IFS officers of the state, both serving and retired, Sonowal underlined the importance of the mentoring programme in guiding the youth to show them the correct path and fulfilling their career aspirations.
Aarohan (the ascent) is a mentoring programme which would look after the proper guidance and mentoring aspect of next generation with a vision to create a resource pool of able mentors and mentees within the period of three to five years. With an aim to nurture young talents in different fields and give them opportunity to showcase their potential the mentoring programme would seek to ensure quality educations reaches every household.
By identifying 3000 young students mainly from underprivileged strata of the society with brilliant academic records hailing from remotest corners of the state, “Aarohan” will engage the services of both serving and retired IAS, IPS and IFS officers of Assam cadre to mentor them during this financial year itself in fulfilling their career objectives imparting knowledge from their vast experience and exposure to different situations.
The mentorship will be purely on volunteer basis where the officers will take it upon themselves to guide the upcoming generation of the state towards excellence. Explaining the importance the programme Sonowal said that quality of education today would determine the quality of life tomorrow.
Only material riches would not be enough to give life’s satisfaction but character building through spiritual strength is of prime importance in today’s world, he said.
Sonowal made a fervent appeal to the top officers to willingly take it as a mission to shape the future of the state by mentoring the youth through dedication and passion so that the state can make rapid progress in building human resources for the future.
Speaking on the occasion Minister for Education Himanta Biswa Sarma said that along with “Arohan” another programme “Gunotsav” is also started where the IAS, IPS and IFS officers will visit all schools of the state and monitor the functioning, take part in the activities of the schools for the day and have mid day meal with the students.
Informing that only 8 districts of the state namely Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Kamrup Metro, Barpeta, Chirang, Hailakandi and West Karbi Anglong have been selected for the 1st phase of the programme where around 12000 schools would be monitored by the mentors and help in improving overall standard of the schools by identifying problems and providing solutions.
Sarma said that this programme would be able to usher in revolutionary changes to the education system of the state.
