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Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: Working Chairman of Panthers Party and a former Education Minister,Harsh Dev Singh,has suggested to the National Conference led Government to issue a white paper on the number of teachers who have been attached and the number of vacant posts of teachers in various Government schools.He said that the recent announcement of the Government's transfer policy on teachers may prove an eyewash unless the Government come out with facts and figures about the number of teachers who have been allowed to remained attached in the two capital cities and in the district headquarters for the last several years.
In an interview Harsh Dev Singh today said that the concerned authorities had made a mess of the education policy, if there was any in the state.He said that Jammu and Kashmir topped the list of the those states where teaching in a large number of schools,especially in the rural areas,suffered because of shortage of teaching staff.He said that on its face the new policy on transfers was ideal but before it was implemented those teachers who had remained attached in the urban areas should be first of all posted to their original places.
The former Education Minister said that it was for the first time that the culture of attachment and frequent transfer of teachers had been given a farewell when the coalition Government was headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. He said as Education Minister "I had earned a lost of displeasure from my ministerial colleagues and other political leaders, besides bureaucrats when I refused to oblige them by keeping their favourite people attached."
He said that what guarantee "we" have that the Government will stick to the new transfer policy when the new system has no legal and constitutional support.He said at one stage Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah,had announced that he would not allow frequent reshuffle of employees and the bureaucrats adding that the records during the last year reveal that the coalition Government has shown greater zeal in shifting officers and senior bureaucrats from one place to the other than in executing development projects.He said let the Chief Minister himself call for the recods and he would find it that in the civil secretariat only bureaucrats were reshuffled faster than the shuffling of cards.
Harsh Dev said that apart from filling vacant posts of teachers there was need for reducing the teacher-taught ratio in the Government schools.He alleged that in the rural belts in the state there were not more than two teachers in primary schools and three to five in Middle schools.He said this was the result of either delay in filling th vacant posts or the outcome of attachments.He said that the Directorate of School Education should prepare a list of vacant teachers posts in Government schools and the list of teachers who continue to remain attached.Once these two lists were circulated people would judge what steps the Government had taken in filling the vacant posts and in sending the attached teachers back to their places of posting.
He said without this the new transfer policy would be cover for hiding various administrative lapses in the Education Department.He also wanted the Government to initiate measures for improving the infrastructure in the higher secondary schools and degree colleges.He said he had received reports that the basic infrastructure was missing in the degree colleges opened during the last five years and students in these colleges suffered because of shortage of teaching staff.
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