School and Mass Education Minister Debi Prasad Mishra on Thursday informed the State Assembly that a total of 3,455 linguistic-based teachers have been appointed to teach 21 tribal languages in various schools in the State. The Minister said this while replying to a question of member Chiranjib Biswal and additional questions put by other members. He said the State has so far completed 2,44,587 classrooms against requirement of 2,73,856 in primary schools.
The Minister said while the Right to Education Act provides that a school can be opened in an tribal and KBK area with having minimum of 25 children and in non-tribal areas having minimum of 40 students, the State Government has established 9937 primary schools and 10,965 upper primary schools between 2011-12 and 2014-15.
Similarly, the Government has kept up recruiting teachers as per the RTE provision. While a total of 20,735 teachers were appointed in 2011-12, 16,089 in 2011-12 and, 13,542 teachers were appointed in 2013-14. Besides, process is to recruit 16,601 teachers for the current year. He said the teacher-student ratio in the primary schools is 25.67:1 and in upper primary school 25.17:1.