“Shiksha O Tripura” a short film under the banner of Barsha Productions portraying the significant development in the field of Education System of Tripura.

Agartala 16th April 2022: Tripura, also known as Hill Tipperah, was a princely state. The Heritage of Tripura is vast and vivid because of the large number of races residing in the state from the time immemorial.

Since Tripura merged into The Republic of India, the Education Sector of Tripura has achieved various heights since then. The former Left Front government laid the foundation of modern education and worked towards developing the class of the art of infrastructure by demolishing the old retired buildings. Data from 2011 census of India reveals that overall literacy rate in the state was 87.75 percent with male literacy rate of 92.18 percent and female literacy rate of 83.14 percent. Tripura Schools are majorly run by the state government, some by private organizations including religious institutions. Instruction is mainly in Bengali the mostly used mother tongue, English or Kokborok and other regional languages.

In 2018, with a new ray of hope the BJP Government came into power when the  civilians dreamt of further upliftment of their lives. The Government since its formation has specifically focused on the development of the School education under the guidance of Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Biplab Kumar Deb. Under Hon’ble Education Minister Shri Ratan Lal Nath education in Tripura has developed at a very fast pace. The present state govt. has taken a number of steps to develop the educational set up of the state. A free and compulsory education policy was introduced by the govt. that caters free education to the students who fall in the age group of 6-14 years of age.

With a total of four stages in the Education System, the Tripura Education Department was established with the aim of enhancing the academic scenario of the state. Later the department of education was further divided into three sections viz; Education (School), Social Welfare and Social Education Department, and Education (Higher). The state government is making every effort for spreading basic education to the grass root level.

The primary step that added to this development was converting all the TBSE Board based schools to CBSE Board format and introducing the NCERT based Curriculum that brought a revolution in the field of education. Apart from this,  in the  government’s mission to enhance the quality of education, centralized examination paper, vigorous teachers’ training, close monitoring of teaching in schools, evaluation of performance of teachers were also introduced.

Although the Covid pandemic hit the state education system to a great extent and disturbed the normalcy, but the present government tackled the situation by introducing various schemes like streaming classes while collaborating with various media channels.

The government has also facilitated and equipped classroom with projectors through ICT Projects by modernizing the classrooms. The 100 Vidyajyoti Schools inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi has boosted the education system further by providing education with updated technologies and special educators and all other facilities to compete in the national arena. The Vande Tripura channel a dedicated channel for education is also an initiative of the state Government to support all sphere of students who were not able to visit schools during the devastating times of Covid -19 pandemic.

Besides, a large number of GT and PGT faculties have been recruited for providing best guidance and education to the students

Depicting the revolutionary development in the field of education in the state, a short film Shiksha O Tripura directed by Biswajit Das casting various talents of the state is all set to conquer the hearts of Tripura Citizens.  The film casting state based actors namely Pranab Kr Nath, Satirtha Debnath, Sourajit Acharjee, Gopal Baishnab, Bikram Das, Kanika Chakraborty, Kundanika Chakraborty and many others while produced under the banner of Barsha Productions has already been released on YouTube and more Digital sites and is complete.