guwahati the impact of covid on learning of over 40 lakh schoolchildren of the state will be assessed in gunotsav 2022 the mega educational exercise to evaluate each and every child across all governmentrun schools of assam state education department has sent communication to the districts to be ready for gunotsav to be held in mayjuneadopted from the gujarat model of the similar school evaluation exercise with the same nomenclature gunotsav was started in assam in 2017 by the bjpled government to gauge the quality of education in gunotsav ministers mlas ias ips and senior government officials go to schools as external evaluatorsabout 4251 lakh schoolchildren from classes i to ix studying across 46251 government provincialized and tea garden managedschools are about to be evaluated during this years gunotsavspeaking to toi mission director of axom sarba siksha abhiyan roshni aparanji korati said the upcoming edition aims at identifying the learning gap due to covid19 pandemic its a quality initiative to identify learning levels of students of classes i to ix and to ensure attaining gradespecific learning outcomes by all children defined by ncert evaluation will be done through both self and external evaluation she saidevaluation will be conducted on scholastic areas for students and school evaluation on coscholastic activities community participation and infrastructure scholastic evaluation is conducted on skills reading writing and numeracybasic mathematical operations and core subject areas languages maths science evs and social sciencetools of gunotsav are prepared based on gradespecific learning outcomes learning outcomewise and itemwise performance of children could be generated through the software of gunotsav said koratigunotsav offers the scope for identification of learning gaps of students and plan remedial support to children for addressing their learning gaps and improve learning outcomesduring 2020 and 2021 there was substantial loss of instructional time due to the pandemic though allout efforts were made to reach out to children through various interventions both offline and online yet korati admitted that the loss caused by closure of educational institutions for most of the time during the last two academic years cannot be overlookedtraining for teachers in the areas where support is required for facilitating effective classroom transactions may also be designed gunotsav 2022 will help identify learning gaps due to covid19 pandemic and remedial measures may be taken to meet up learning gaps of the children she added