The Democratic Teachers’ Organisation (DTO) has appealed to all teachers’ bodies and academicians to protest the State Government’s proposed move to adjust Class-VIII with the nearest upper primary or UGME schools.
DTO president Bibhuti Bhusana Nayak said instead of solving the burning problems of around 30,000 block grant teachers in secondary and primary levels, the Director of Secondary Education has directed all the District Education Officers (DEOs) of the State to prepare a blueprint to adjust Class-VIII with the nearest upper primary or UGME Schools.
“Instead of providing adequate infrastructure and appointing required number of trained Arts and Science teachers, classical, Hindi, PET, clerk and peon, etc, the Government is going to overburden the present primary schools with the addition of one more class,” said Nayak.
Notably, the Government has declared through newspapers to separate Plus-II from the existing degree colleges by July 31 this year. Currently, Plus-II and Plus-III are functioning in composite manner but without having separate infrastructures like class rooms, laboratory, library, office and separate teaching and nonteaching staffs. In this situation, how Plus-II can be separated from degree colleges abruptlyIJ, he questioned.
Besides, regularisation of 16,000 lecturers and employees of 662 block grant colleges and 488 senior colleges is highly necessary before execution of the proposed separation, said secretary Nrushingha Charan Panda.
The proposed move would jeopardise the entire primary and higher education, he added.