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The implementation of Right to Education (RTE) Act in Jammu and Kashmir has led to imposition of blanket ban at government teachers to work at private coaching centres across the newly carved out Union Territory of J&K.
In 2015, the then PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir had imposed a ban on private tuitions given by the government teachers but the order was revoked after being challenged in the High Court.
The RTE Act 2009 became applicable in J&K following the abrogation of Article 370. According to the RTE Act, no government teacher can engage himself or herself in a private tuition or private teaching. The RTE also bans the deployment of teachers for non-teaching jobs. They can be only employed for census, elections or disaster related jobs as these are time bound exercises.
As a ban has come into force now it remains to be seen whether the authorities will be able to implement it or not. Most of the coaching centres across J&K are run by the teachers working in the government schools. The complaints about teachers spending more time in the coaching centres than schools have been galore but the erstwhile state governments couldn’t do much to put the things right.
Now the time has changed and Jammu & Kashmir administration can take stern action against the teachers violating the norms. The implementation of RTE can help in improving the falling standards of education in the government run schools. Everyone is aware about the fact that performance of the students who study in private institutions has always been better than the ones, who study in the government schools despite the fact that the teachers employed in the government institutions are well qualified than their counterparts in private schools.
When Board results are announced the issue of poor performance of the government school students is discussed threadbare. Every time the meetings end on the note that this needs to be looked into and teachers have to be made accountable. In the past teachers were never held accountable but now they cannot shirk their responsibility as the central laws are directly applicable in Jammu and Kashmir.
If the RTE is implemented in letter and spirit in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir there is every possibility about students of government run educational institutions competing with the private school students and outshining them. But for that RTE has to be implemented with full force. |
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