No.F.

14(54-1)-SE/IT/2021
Government of Tripura
Directorate of Secondary Education
IT Cell

Subject: Detailed Guidelines for "Vidyajyoti Schools" under MISSION 100.

The Government of Tripura has accorded approval to convert 100 existing
Government High and Higher Secondary schools to "Vidyajyoti Schools" with
state-of-the-art facilities for providing quality education on 26.10.2021 vide
Memo No. F.1(12)-GA(CAB)/2019-B, dated 27/10/2021.
All the Vidyajyoti Schools under Mission 100 shall run under the purview of
the following guidelines:
1. All the Vidyajyoti Schools under Mission 100 shall be affiliated to CBSE.
2. These schools are to be functioned under the monitoring and supervision of
the following committees:
State Level Governing Bodv:
a. Chief Secretary Chairman
b. Secretary, School Education Convener
c. Secretary, TW Member

d. Secretary, SC Welfare Member

e. Chief Engineer, RD/ PWD Member
f. Managing Director, TFDPC Member
g. Secretary, TBSE Member
h. Principal/ HM of two of the top CBSE schools of Member
state
i. One Parent of each two Toppers in the Madhyamik Member
& HS Examination of the previous year.
District level Management Committee:

a. District Magistrate & Collector Chairman

b. District Education Officer Convener
c. All Principal/ Headmaster of the Schools of Member
Excellence in the district
d. Executive engineer, PWD Member
e. CMO of the district Member
f. District Welfare Officer Member
g. Superintending Engineer, DWS Member
h. Senior General Manager, TSECL Member
i. ZDO, TTAADC Member

School Management Committee as under

a. Sub-Divisional Magistrate Chairman

b. Concerned Block-Development Officers Member

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 c. Principal of Local College (Govt. /Private)/ Member
nearest Polytechnic/ m /Senior Sec. School
d. Four teachers who must include exam Member
in-charge and academic in-charge of Primary
School
e. Principal of the School Member Secretary
f. Twelve representatives from parents of the Member
existing students (Male & Female) only (parents
of existing students and
not guardians of wards to be member)
g. Student Council Members (two boys & two girls) Member
h. Chairman Block Advisory Committee/Panchayat Member
Samity/Urban Local Body of the concerned area
and in case of AMC respective Ward member of
the AMC

3. The election of the parent representatives in the School Management Committee

will be done under the guidance and supervision of SOM every three years as per
detailed procedure to be separately notified by the Department.
4. These schools will be given special attention and monitoring through state and
district level committees. An annual report will be placed before the State level
governing body on the functioning and achievements of these schools compiling the
individual reports received from the respective SDMs. This will be based on CBSE
School Quality Assessment and Assurance (SQAA) framework.
5. The proposed schools shall be notified under section 2 (p) of the Right of
Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act- 2009, so as to give children all
over the state the facility of enrolment in these schools.
6. From the second year of the scheme, Delta Ranking will be introduced and the
10 schools which show the highest progress in School Quality Index of
Madhyamik and HS Exam will be honoured at the state level Teachers' Day
Function.
7. Any school which drops in the ranking by more than 10 will be subjected to
academic and administrative review by the panel constituted by the Directorate
of Secondary Education.
8. The schools will have classes from Nursery to Class XII. The aspiration is
to have a single section in preprimary (Nursery, KGl and KG2) and two
sections from Class I to Class V each having a maximum of 35 children.
From class VI, there will be 2 sections of 40 students each.
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9. In 11th and 12th the aim is to have 4 sections with 2 sections each of 2 no
streams chosen by the School Management Committee. (In case
classrooms are not available currently over next 3 years the Department
will prioritize construction of additional classrooms.) Not more than 2
streams in Class XI and XII is stipulated so that PGTs are properly utilized
and depending on geographical location few schools will be encouraged to
have a single stream.
10.As per CBSE norms, Teacher Student ratio will be maintained. In no
circumstances will the classroom ratio be contravened beyond the above
stated limits.
11.The estimated strength of the school will be approximately 1200 children .
No feeder school will be attached to these schools.
12. The schools will be co-educational.
13. Mid Day Meal would be provided as per existing norms of the Directorate
of Elementary Education.
14. Bio-metric/ Access card based attendance for teachers and other staff will
be installed in every school.
15.The schools will be no tuition institutions and any homework given to
children should be tasks they can perform themselves without any
external help. Weak students will be provided extra classes in the learning
shelters which will function after school for an hour. Teacher will be
compensated for additional time spent so.
16.At least one tribal language should be offered as a third language besides
English and Bengali in the school. The third language will be optional for
students.
17. In Autonomous District Council blocks, Headmaster must try to have
majority of primary school teachers i.e. the teachers who teaching from
class from pre-primary to class-V with fluency in both prevalent tribal
language as well as Bengali.
18. Any teacher who does not know the local tribal language should not teach
primary class in a school where more than 50% of the children belong to
tribal communities. In the future, possibility of including a foreign
language(s) as third language will be explored.

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19.To give the facility of English medium in the mission 100 schools, 71 of
which are presently Bengali medium schools, the primary section will be
started with English medium and as they move up in class hierarchy
classes from I to XII will be gradually converted to English.
20. An infrastructure development fund will be built up in the school and
development charges Rs.1000/- per annum will be paid by every student
into this fund.
21. The Principal will be empowered to waive off the fees for any student
whom he feels is unable to pay for the same. Parents, community,
panchayats, local clubs will be encouraged to donate in kind or in cash to
the Infrastructure Development fund of the school for which accounts will
be separately maintained.
22. Around 20 Vidyajyoti schools located in urban areas will be gradually
developed as schools of special expertise each of which will cater to a
special field of learning. For example, one school could be specialized in
fine Arts in which the 11th and 12th standards student who are interested
in Fine Arts will study.
23. This school will get mentorship from one of the best Fine Arts Institutes in
the country. Similarly, another school may be developed as a centre of
special learning of Commerce/Law and children in classes 11th and 12th
will prepare for examination like entrance examination for Chartered
Accountancy/Common Law Admission Test/ Bachelor of Business
Administration etc. Another example could be that school could specialize
in Biology related subject where children would prepare for Medicine or for
degrees in Bio-technology, B. Pharm, Optometry etc. and the best Biology
teachers of the state would be deployed in that school.
24. In Schools of special expertise and schools in remote tribal areas under
Mission 100, attempts would be made to build a hostel link so that hostel
facilities can be provided for around 10% of the students enrolled in the
school.
25. Mother on campus:- Two mothers will be nominated by the SMC to be in
the school during school hours on rotational basis every week. No mother
will remain in school duty for more than one week under this provision in

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 the school. This is to ensure that parents get an idea of the functioning of
the school and teachers and Principals get first hand feedback from the
mothers.
26.There will be a compulsorily staff meeting every Friday after school hours
of Headmaster with teachers for academic discussion in which the learning
levels of the students, need for teacher training, purchase of additional
teaching learning materials etc. will be discussed.
27. Headmaster will also organize teachers training for his own teachers using
the teachers in his school/neighbouring schools, SCERT, NGOs,
accomplished parents and any other resources at his disposal as and when
the need is felt.
28. Vidyajyoti schools will be run in a single shift. Only in rare circumstances
school should be allowed to practice double shift. In case any school
continues in double shift beyond 5 years after the establishment of Mission
100 scheme there, it shall cease to be a Vidyajyoti School.
29. Timings of the school will be as per extant circular of the Directorate of
Secondary Education with additional hours earmarked for coaching,
extracurricular activities, remedial learning etc. 5 day week will be
followed and Saturdays will also be holidays.
30. The School Council of the school will consist of a Head Boy, Head Girl and
Assistant Head Boy and Assistant Head Girl along with all the class
representatives.
31. It is the responsibility of class teacher to conduct elections in the very
beginning of academic year to the posts of class representatives on
popular choice. Class representatives are supposed to elect among
themselves Head Boy and Head Girl from Secondary Section and Assistant
Head Girl and Assistant Head Boy from Elementary section respectively. All
office bearers of Student Council will be members of School Management

Committee.

32.The admission of students will be done as per "Special Category" Schools

criteria. The students seeking admission to the aforesaid schools from any
part of the State, shall be considered for admission if seats are available.
When the number of applicants are more than the number of vacant seats

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 in any of the aforesaid schools, the admission of children will be done by
draw of lottery at entry level, i.e. in Nursery and from Class I and up to
Class V for any interim vacancies.
33. For classes above VI, there will be screening test for new students and for
interim vacancies, twice in a year.
The entrance exam will be held by the schools using question papers
which will be prepared centrally by the Directorate of Secondary
Education.
34. Teachers will be appointed from the cadre of teachers available with the
Directorate as per existing Recruitment Rules. Online applications will be
invited from teachers willing to teach in the Vidyajyoti schools.
Demonstration class and interface with teachers will be conducted to
select teachers/HMS appropriate for the schools.
35.A panel headed by DM will select Principals in his/her respective districts.
District Education Officer will select teachers for Vidyajyoti Schools. There
will be special category award amongst Teachers Day Awards reserved for
teachers of Vidyajyoti Schools.
36. Provision of Special Educator & Psychological Counsellor will be as per
CBSE affiliation norms and Ministry of Education Guidelines. Two Special
Educators per school will be provided along with at least one psychological
Counsellor.
37.A part-time Allopath Doctor, who is already employed under Health
Department (OHS), will be deployed at least for 1 hour per week in the
school, who, may also be called to schools in case of emergency.
38. The Directorate of Secondary Education would fix the rates for deployment
of an AYUSH doctor/ Nurse/ B.Pharm graduate/ Dentist (compulsorily
lady) in each school on part time basis and one room will be setup as
school clinic. Requisite medical kit for fast and basic medicines will be
provided by the Health Department.
39. From the existing cadre of Group C and Group D staff, Directorate of
Secondary Education will deploy at least 2 Group D and 2 Group C staff
per school compulsorily.

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40. The school will have a single library and a Librarian and a Library
Assistant. There will be 2 sections in the library - one for Elementary level
and one for Secondary and Senior Secondary level.
41.The school will have two Computer Teachers one each for Elementary and
Secondary level for making the students computers savvy and to keep
pace with the changing world .
42. Pre-School education will be imparted for 3 years in Nursery &
Kindergarten, (KG-I and KG-II). The pre-school section of the school will
be managed concurrently by Department of Secondary Education and
Directorate of Social Welfare and Social Education.
43. The curriculum as designed by SCERT for pre-school education will be
used. Teachers as per ratio of one teacher per classroom will be deployed
in Vidyajyoti schools. Hence, the academic part will be taken care of by
the school teacher.
44. One Anganwadi Worker and Helper will be deployed in each classroom
and taking care of nutritional needs of children through balanced diet will
be the responsibility of the Department of Social Welfare and Social
Education.
45. All non academic facilities extended in Anganwadis like preparation of
growth chart, vaccination schedule, tracking weight of children,
counselling of young mothers etc will be provided in Vidyajyoti schools
also by Department of Social Welfare and Social Education.
46. Presently in Government schools Classes IV and V are taught by
Elementary Teachers (UGTs) whose educational qualification is only Class
XII passed with a Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed)/ JBT. For
implementation in foundation level learning of students, Class IV and V will
be taught by GTs (Graduate Teachers) instead of UGTs in Vidyajyoti
Schools.
47. The Senior secondary school should ideally have a maximum of 2
Streams in the Classes XI and XII out of Humanities, Commerce, Science
(Medical) and Science (Non Medical with Computers) streams with 2
sections in each stream.

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48. Not more than 2 streams should be in the school to ensure judicious
deployment of PGTs and depending on geographical location few schools
will be encouraged to have a single stream.
49. A regular full time Physical Education Teacher (PT/Yoga) will be
deployed by Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, in Vidyajyoti schools.
A Physical Education room for indoor activities/PT/Yoga for the children
will also be provided.
SO. It will be compulsory for every child (subject to medical/ disabilities
issues etc) to participate in at least one sport besides the regular PE.
Necessary support will be given to ensure that a Specially-Abled child is
also enabled to participate.
51. Department of Youth Affairs and Sports will be requested to place 100
coaches on deputation to Directorate of Secondary Education each of
whom will be deployed in at least 2-3 schools for around 12 hours a week
per school.
S2. There will be an Annual State level Inter District Cultural and Sports
festival/competition specifically for the students of Vidyajyoti schools to
showcase their talents. Kala Utsav funds under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
will be utilised for this purpose.
S3. To encourage extracurricular activities, to ensure that the best of the
talent of the children are developed to their highest potentiality, the school
will be equipped with extra curriculum room and auditorium to all talents.
S4. It will be compulsory for every child in the school to participate in at least
one sport and one extracurricular activity like art, music (instrumental or
vocal), dance or theatre etc.
SS.The HM will ensure functioning of activity clubs like Nature club, Science
club within the school and a student council, to inculcate leadership
qualities in the children.
S6.The students will be encouraged to take part in Community Service and
will also be provided training in Life Skills/ Gender Education.
S7. Instead of recruiting teachers for Art/Dance/Music/Theater, the school
Principals will be empowered to deploy instructors at an hourly rate of Rs.
200/- per hour for a maximum of 30 (thirty) hours a month for each

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 instructor. The deployment will be on contract basis, and has to be
approved by School Management Committee. SMC is free to replace or
add instructors any time.
58. Each school will be provided Rs. 30,000/- per month for this purpose.
Parents of students will be encouraged to volunteer for the same.
Government teachers of the same/ neighbouring schools can also be paid
at the same rate if they are proficient/hold expertise in any such fields.
59.There will be an hour of after school activity in which students will
participate in extra-curricular activities.
60.At least 02 periods per week of Computer instruction will be given from
Classes III to X.
61. There will be 02 staff rooms with a work table for every teacher. Staff
rooms should not be divided on the basis of gender or Secondary/
Elementary criteria. Both staff rooms will be equipped with two desktop
computers and one printer with internet facilities. Each staff room will also
have adequate almirahs for teachers with cubicles for all teachers.
62. The school office will be equipped with one photocopy machine.
63.The school will be equipped with an AV (audio visual) room with a large
TV screen projector etc. and a library of viewing material. Norms of the
same will be designed and upgraded by the department from time to time.
64. Facilities like CCTV coverage, PA system etc, will be provided.
65. There will be a well-equipped library in the school with separate sections
for Elementary and Secondary/ HS. The Elementary section will be well
designed according to the needs of the kids and their teachers. The library
for Secondary section/HS will be equipped with the latest subject books of
the best authors including foreign authors so that students may be
imparted with the quality information.
66.The library will also have periodical, journals and news papers and good
quality storybooks etc.
67. There will the provision of one Library Assistant and appropriate seating
facility for students. The time table of the school will have at least one
library period for each class and it will be mandatory for each student to

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 attend the library period and every student will have to present a book
review as a project on bimonthly basis.
68. Reading corners will be established in appropriate places within the school
premises and will be managed by Student Council.
69. Each classroom in Elementary section up to class V will have a class library
with a minimum of 50 books either strung up on a rope or displayed in
open shelves.
70.The schools will be provided with the Tinkering Labs which will provide
space where the children can experiment with, learn, develop and
conceptualize different scientific ideas .
71. All residual matters will be covered as per existing circulars,
notifications/ procedures, usual circulars of the Directorate of Secondary
Education.
72. The following outcome indicators are listed below as definite, tangible
parameters to define whether the envisaged "Mission 100 scheme" have
achieved their purpose of establishment or not.

i) Achievement of grade wise learning outcomes for all classes from

standards 1st to gth
ii) Pass percentage of minimum 90 % in the first two year of
establishment of a particular class from 9th to 12th standard.
iii) Achievement of at least 96% pass percentage w.e.f. 3rd Academic
Year for all classes from 9th to 12th standard.
iv) Qualitative Index (calculated as sum of total marks out of 500) of all
students of a class divided by number of students in the class) to be
atleast 400 w.e.f. 3rd year of establishment/passing out of the 12th
standard.
v) A definite career achievement plan will be made for every student in
the 10th standard and children will be prepared for facing entrance
exam/their chosen path of study during and after the 12thstandard.
vi) At least 25°/o students will appear for scholarship/academic
competitive exams like NSTSE/JSTSE/Science, Maths, ' English,
Computer Olympiads/ Tripura Maths and Science Talent Se rch E~a~

etc. \ ,:x:
(Chandni ha an~\s)
Jt. Secretary (Education)
to the Govt. of Tripura
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Copy To,
1. PS to the Minister, School Education Department for kind information of the
Hon'ble Minister.
2. PS to the Chief Secretary, for kind information of the Chief Secretary.
3. PS to the Secretary, Social Welfare and Social Education for kind information
of the Secretary
4. PS to the Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department for kind
information of the Principal Secretary
5. PS to the Secretary, Education (School) Department for kind information of
the Secretary
6. PS to the Secretary, Finance Department for kind information of the Secretary
7. PS to the Secretary, Planning & Co-ordination Department for kind
information of the Secretary
8. District Magistrate & Collector, West/ Sepahijala/ Gomati/ South/ Khowai/
Dhalai/ Unakoti/ North District for kind information.
9. PS to the Director, Elementary Education for kind information.
10. Zonal Development Officer, TTAADC for kind information.
11. Sub-Divisional Magistrate, _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ Sub-Division for kind
information.
12. Principal Officer, TTAADC for kind information.
13. District Education Officer, West/ Sepahijala/ Gomati/ South/ Khowai/ Dhalai/
Unakoti/ North District for kind information.
14. Branch Officers, Directorate of Secondary/ Elementary Education for
Information.
15.Inspector of Schools for information.
16. All the HMs/TICs concerned for information and compliance.

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 Annexure I
Particulars of the Vidvajyoti Schools (100 nos) under Mission 100:­

SI. No District Name of the school

1 West Tripura Shishu Bihar HS School

2 West Tripura Umakanta Academy Eng. Medium

3 West Tripura Henry Derozio Academy

4 West Tripura Dr. B.R Ambedkar Eng. Model HS School

5 West Tripura Khumpui Academy Eng. Medium

6 West Tripura Sukanta Academy Eng. Medium

7 West Tripura Kshudiram Basu Eng. Med. School

8 West Tripura Bhagat Singh Hindi (Eng. Medium) School

9 Sepahijala Bishalgarh Eng. Medium

10 Sepahijala Sonamura Eng. Medium

11 Sepahijala Melaghar Eng. Medium HS School

12 Gomati Udaipur English Medium H.S School

13 Gomati Amarpur Eng. Medium HS School

14 Gomati Karbook English Medium Model School

15 South Belonia Govt. Eng. Medium

16 South Sabroom Eng. Medium

17 Khowai Teliamura Eng. Medium HS School

18 Khowai Khowai Govt. Eng. Medium

19 Dhalai Kamalpur Govt. Eng. Medium H.S School

20 Dhalai Chailengta Govt. Eng. Medium

21 Dhalai Ambassa Eng. Med. Model School

AnandaRoaja Memorial Eng. Med. High
22 Dhalai
School
23 Unakoti NetajiVidyapithEng Medium

24 Unakoti Kumarghat Eng. Med. High School

25 North Tripura Kanchanpur Govt. Eng. Medium

26 North Tripura Sabual Eng. Med. HS School

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27 North Tripura Damchara Eng. Med. Model School

28 West Tripura Umakanta Academy HS School

29 West Tripura MTB Girls HS School

30 West Tripura Bodhjung HS School (Boys)

31 West Tripura Acharya Prafulla Chandra HS School

32 West Tripura Arundhutinagar HS School

33 West Tripura Pallimangal HS School

34 West Tripura Birendranagar HS School

35 West Tripura Champaknagar HS School

36 West Tripura Surjamaninagar HS School

37 West Tripura Mohanpur Girl's HS School

38 West Tripura Berimura HS School

39 West Tripura Mohanpur HS School

40 West Tripura Surendranagar HS School

41 West Tripura Amtali HS School

42 West Tripura Narsingarh HS School

43 Sepahijala Charilam HS School

44 Sepahijala Bishramganj HS School

45 Sepahijala South Paharpur HS School

46 Sepahijala Kathalia HS School

47 Sepahijala SD Memorial HS School

48 Sepahijala Boxanagar HS School

49 Sepahijala Melaghar HS School

so Sepahijala Taibandal HS School

51 Khowai Khowai Govt. HS School

52 Khowai Khowai Govt Girls' HS School

53 Khowai Kalya npur HS School

54 Khowai Teliamura HS School

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55 Khowai Kabi Nazrul VidyaBhaban HS

56 Khowai Tulashikhar Rajnagar HS

57 Khowai Mungiabari HS School

58 Khowai Miganga Sukanta Class XII

59 Khowai Birchandrapur HS School

60 Gomati Ampi English Medium Model School

61 Gomati Bhagini Nivedita Girls HS

62 Gomati Kirit Bikram Institution (KBI)

63 Gomati Silachari HS School

64 Gomati Chandrapur Colony HS School

65 Gomati Taidu Bari HS School

66 Gomati Kakraban HS School

67 Gomati Karbook Panjiham HS School

68 South Rajnagar Colony HS School

69 South Manu Bankul HS School

70 South BK Institution, Belonia

71 South BC Manu SSV HS School

72 South Shantirbazar HS School

73 South Barpathari HS School

74 South Hrishyamukh HS School

75 South Srinagar HS School

76 South Baikhora Eng Medium HS

77 Dhalai Kulai HS School

78 Dhalai Gandachara HS School

79 Dhalai Chawmanu HS School

80 Dhalai Salema HS School

81 Dhalai Halhali HS School

82 Dhalai Ganganagar Eng. Medium HS School

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83 Dhalai Raishyabari Eng. Medium HS School

84 Unakoti Tilabazar HS School

85 Unakoti Bhagini Nibedita Girls HS School

86 Unakoti Pecharthal HS School

87 Unakoti Pabiachara Class XII School

88 Unakoti Baidyanath Majumder Smriti Class XII Sch.

89 Unakoti Ledrai Dewan HS School

90 Unakoti Dhansingh Chaudhuri Memorial HS school

91 Unakoti Dalugaon HS School

92 North Nayapara H.S. School

93 North Bir Bikram Institution

94 North Padmapur HS school

95 North Damcherra HS School

96 North Kadamtala HS School

97 North Kanchanpur HS School

98 North Satnala HS School

99 North Panisagar HS School

100 North Anandabazar HS School

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