NE’s first socio-emotional learning programme launched in Tripura

Agartala: The Tripura government launched a comprehensive co-curricular programme, SAHARSHA (self-gratification), for the social and emotional learning of students up to Class 8 to scale up their knowledge beyond the syllabus — the first in the northeast region. Education minister Ratan Lal Nath on Thursday said the state government has already introduced CBSE syllabus in the schools and implemented all the teachers’ training modules to improve the academic landscape of Tripura, which has borne fruit in the past two years.However, the government felt the need of nourishing the students at a tender stage to inculcate their sense of social commitment and responsibility along with their emotions to make them better citizens, Nath said. “The students have to be responsible towards society even after obtaining degrees and certificates, which needs to be nurtured at the primary level,” Nath said.