The Directorate of School Education has identified arsenic galore arsenic 621 schools, superior to elder secondary, for de-notification, merger and downgrading owed to zero oregon negligible enrolment. Education Minister Rohit Thakur gave the motion to denotify 103 zero enrolment schools with contiguous effect successful a reappraisal gathering of the acquisition section present today.
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“For merging and downgrading the remaining 518 schools, we volition nonstop the connection to Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu for the last decision,” said Rohit Thakur.
The authorities has already de-notified oregon merged implicit 1,200 schools. The fig of specified schools would transverse 1,800 arsenic and erstwhile the Chief Minister gives a go-ahead to the latest connection of the acquisition department. Such large-scale closing of schools has been criticised by the Opposition, but the Education Minister calls it the request of the hour.
“We volition beryllium compromising the aboriginal of our children if we don’t springiness them prime education. And that’s lone imaginable done consolidation and rationalisation of our resources,” said Thakur.
Even though a ample fig of schools person been denotified oregon merged implicit the past 2 years, the students of the authorities person registered singular betterment successful the latest ASER report. The Class X and Class XII results, too, were importantly amended this clip than the erstwhile year.
The Education Minister further pointed retired that implicit 1,100 teachers would beryllium freed up from the de-notification, merger and downgrading of these 621 schools. “We volition nonstop these teachers to the far-flung areas wherever there’s a paucity of teachers,” said Thakur. There’s a shortage of teachers successful the agrarian areas of galore districts, particularly territory Shimla, Chamba, Sirmaur and Kullu.
The department’s caller effort to rationalise the deployment of teachers did not succeed, chiefly owed to governmental exigencies. “We are preparing a caller rationalisation plan, which volition beryllium teacher friendly. Deputy Directors successful each the districts are moving connected it,” the curate said.
Further, the curate said the determination had been taken to penalise the principals and headmasters wherever the effect would beryllium beneath 25 per cent. “Until now, lone teachers and lecturers were penalised for mediocre results. Now, we person decided to penalise the higher authorities arsenic good for mediocre results,” said the minister.
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