By Farooq Shah
SRINAGAR- Another batch of recently appointed headmasters participated in a 10-day leadership program organized by the State Leadership Academy (SLA) of the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) here at Bemina.
Over the course of a 10-day period, a wide range of experts, both internal and invited for the occasion from other departments, spoke on topics including finance, bookkeeping, administrative issues, record maintenance, operating rules and procedures, and various other management-related topics.
Speaking at the workshop on a variety of topics were State Nodal Officer, SLA, Dr Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, Divisional Nodal Officer, SLA, Dr Rabia Naseem Mogul, senior academic officers namely Dr. Jan Mudasir Gul, Sheikh Gulzar Ahmad, Masood Ali, Riyaz Ahmad Dar, and Dr. Saima Qadir, as well as Media In-Charge, SCERT, Farooq Shah.
Among others who spoke at the workshop included Principal BHSS, Soura, Mohammad Amin Beg and Senior Academic Officer, DIET Srinagar, Nusrat Geelani.
The workshop’s highlight was the four specialists who spoke extensively about financial transactions, bookkeeping, maintaining records, and buying from the GeM portal. They included Ex Joint Director, Finance, Mohamed Ashraf Malik, District Treasury Officer, Anantnag, Dr.Sajad Ahmad Wani, chartered accountant, Mr Mohammed Iqbal, and Zahoor-ul-Islam from Securities and Exchange Board of India.
The background support to the event was provided by Ms Rehana Qussar, technology in-charge at SLA and Anjali Om Raina.
The SLA was established as soon as the Council was established in 2020, when the former State Institute of Education (SIE) evolved into the SCERT. The National Centre for School Leadership (NCSL), NIEPA, oversees SLA operations that aim at transforming schools by addressing the demands of leadership and school-related issues in each of the 20 districts of the J&K UT.
The SLA’s primary duties include planning trainings for newly promoted as well as existing principals, headmasters, and elementary heads; preparing key resource persons for training at the state, district, cluster, and block levels; developing training modules on school leadership; documenting the work of school leaders, and filming schools while disseminating those videos to the public through the NCSL portal and on the SLA YouTube channel.
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