| Education muddle in Jammu & Kashmir, 421 schools housed in rented buildings in Jammu div | | |
Bashir Assad
Jammu, Mar 16: Unlike other States in India, Jammu and Kashmir lacks proper educational infrastructure. The poor educational infrastructure and equally poor educational standard are acting as barriers in the path of growth of education in Jammu and Kashmir. After failing to effectively implement Government of India's flagship scheme Sarava Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) at the elementary level, the State's Education Department is now dallying on implementation of another Centrally Sponsored educational scheme, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shikhsha Abhiyaan (RMSA) at the secondary level.
Following the implementation of RMSA, from 2009 to 2012, 526 middle schools were upgraded to high school level in J&K (259 schools in Kashmir and 267 in Jammu) under the scheme but the posts in the upgraded schools are yet to be filled.
According to official sources, the upgradation of schools has resulted in creation of 4700 vacancies including 526 posts of headmasters, 3132 posts of subject specific masters, 526 posts of junior assistants and 526 posts of lab assistants in the State.
As per RMSA guidelines, each school upgraded in 2010-11 will get 7 post-graduate subject specific masters while as each school upgraded in 2011-2012 will get 5 subject specific post graduate masters.
The scheme was launched by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in March 2009, in order to enhance access to secondary education and to improve its quality by upgrading both infrastructure and staff.
According to provisions of the scheme, both the school and the staff of the upgraded schools should be elevated and for the purpose, Center and State will provide funds in the ratio of 75:25.
There are about 1583 vacancies of lecturers in various districts of Jammu division among which 1771 are clear vacancies, 1551 are RMSA vacancies and total number of vacancies of the post of teachers in the division is 3875. |
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