In order to increase interest toward science, chief secretary Sunil Kumar on Wednesday stressed on giving special training to teachers.
In the meeting of the committee, formed to give suggestions after evaluation on the need of teachers for traditional subjects under higher education, the chief secretary suggested to make study of maths, science, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology and commerce subjects interesting, for filling the vacant posts of assistant professors in government colleges in the next 10 years.
The chief secretary suggested preparation of proposals to seek cooperation of State Council for Education Research and Training (SCERT), to higher services of retired science teachers, child scientist scheme and campus selection.
In view of the shortage of science teachers, the chief secretary said that through cooperation between one college to another and one university to another, this shortage could be solved. It was also suggested in the meeting to prepare school students by infusing interest among them on maths, science and other subjects, so that they might be profound in these subjects in the future.
It was decided in the meeting to form sub committees under the chairmanship of all vice chancellors to give subject-wise suggestions.
Principal secretary sports and Youth welfare RP Mandal, higher education secretary Bl Agrawal, technical education secretary Nidhi Chhibbar, women and child development secretary Subrat Sahu, school education secretary DK Shrivastava, vice chancellor of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University Dr SK Pandey, Chhattisgarh Ayush and Science University vice chancellor Dr AK Dabke, Indira Gandhi Agriculture University vice chancellor Dr Patil, dean of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Medical College Dr Chandrakar and other senior officers were present in the meeting.