Srinagar, Feb 9: The federal government faculties throughout Jammu and Kashmir are grappling with a dearth of topic lecturers, leaving the scholars on the receiving finish.
The transfer has been seen severely by the Division of the College Schooling and Literacy (DSEL), Ministry of Schooling (MoE), as the colleges with a dearth of topic lecturers on the higher main degree and secondary degree are usually not fulfilling the norms set underneath Proper to Schooling (RTE) Act.
As per the official figures assessed by Larger Kashmir, solely 22.8 p.c of higher main sections of presidency faculties have topic lecturers whereas round 77.2 p.c of faculties are grappling with subject-specific lecturers.
An official stated that the issue was persistent in faculties owing to the shortage of infrastructure whereby college students from multiple or two courses are accommodated in a single room.
“In these circumstances, just one trainer takes a category of the scholars of those mixed courses in a single room,” the official stated.
Over time, nationwide surveys and different authorities experiences have identified the shortage of infrastructure in faculties, notably on the main and the higher main degree, elevating concern over the standard of training imparted in these faculties.
Whereas the colleges on the higher main degree are grappling with a shortage of topic lecturers, official figures have revealed 8984 surplus lecturers on the elementary-level faculties in J&Ok.
The state of affairs on the secondary faculty degree isn’t any totally different because the official figures have revealed that 53.5 p.c of the colleges on the secondary degree have lecturers accessible for all core topics.
“Solely 46.5 p.c of the secondary faculties have lecturers for all core topics,” the official doc reads.
The dearth of topic lecturers in faculties prevails regardless of the federal government’s efforts to reshuffle the educating employees yearly and deal with the issues of trainer deficiency in faculties.
The College Schooling Division (SED) orders transfers of lecturers by the Annual Switch Drive (ATD) whereby the educating group is reshuffled to handle the considerations of the non-availability of employees in faculties.
Apart from this, the SED has additionally authorised the lecturers to rationalise the educating employees in faculties on a necessity foundation and utilise the providers of surplus employees in teacher-deficient faculties.
Not solely this, however the official paperwork have revealed that round 10,631 faculties are with no playground throughout the neighborhood of the colleges, depriving the scholars of taking part in sports activities actions.
Additionally, 14,706 faculties are with no library whereas 12,917 faculties are with out ramps, elevating questions over facilitating the training for kids with particular wants.
Administrative Secretary SED, Piyush Singla stated he was not ready to touch upon the problem.
“You possibly can share the doc with me which you might be quoting. I have to examine the supply and can reply accordingly,” Singla stated.
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