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| Harsh Dev alleges total breakdown of educational set-up | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 12: Harsh Dev Singh NPP MLA and its working chairman and former Education Minister has alleged total breakdown of educational set-up in the state with academic activity having become the major causality of bureaucratic red tape and official negligence.
Claiming that thousands of govt. schools were facing acute deficiency of teaching staff with govt. maintaining a criminal silence over the issue, he said that the remote area schools were the major sufferers and had almost become defunct due to staff paucity and non availability of teaching faculty.
He said that the govt. had itself admitted in the meeting of Project Appraisal Study (PAS) held in New-Delhi in June 2011 that 13020 posts of teachers were vacant at the elementary level itself with 8104 vacancies in Upper Primary schools and 4916 vacancies in Primary
schools.
He said apart from this more than 8000 vacancies of masters, head masters and lecturers were available at secondary level including High and Higher secondary schools thus taking the total no. of vacancies to around 22,000.
He said that the figures proved the shortage of at least 40% of the total teaching staff required in educational institutions of the state. He further expressed dismay over the non adjustment of Masters promoted 11 months back by the Education Deptt. thus depriving the schools of the due benefits.
He strongly condemned the withholding of the selection lists of RETs who had applied during 2009 and 2010 for ulterior motives and extraneous considerations by the Educations Deptt. without bothering for the damage being done to the institutions. .
Singh strongly condemned the failure of the govt. to create posts for various High and Higher Secondary Schools created and up-graded after the year 2008, thus adversely affecting not only the pass percentage of the said schools but also jeopardizing the careers of students who were made to pursue the courses without formal teaching guides.
He said that the cabinet decision taken in July 2010 for filling up the vacant posts of teachers in remote and bad pocket areas on RET pattern had neither been honoured nor had any step been initiated in this regard. He said there were protests and demonstrations in various far flung and remote areas against staff shortage, against defunct and non functional schools and against govt. negligence in implementation of various Educational schemes.
Harsh Dev Singh decried in particular the total failure of the govt. to launch RMSA (Rashtriya Madhamik Shiksha Abhiyan) in the state which though was started all over the country in 200B. He said that RMSA was the most ambitious project of GOI, which if implemented in proper perspective, had the potential to transform the entire secondary system of education.
He deplored that funds provided under RMSA during the last three years for staff creation, for infrastructure creation and for other developmental related activity in Education had remained completely unspent and un-utilized due to gross negligence, apathy, neglect and red-tape of the concerned officers and bureaucrats.
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