More than one million students in Government schools of Haryana are devoid of computer education.
In absence of the computer faculty in Government schools of Haryana, the computer education is not being imparted to the students in the current academic session.
Given the situation, Haryana Government has now authorised principals/school heads of the Government schools to engage qualified computer teachers and computer lab assistants on work order basis up-to the time regular appointees join.
In a communiqué sent to all District Education officers, all Block Education officers and concerned Principals/School heads, Director, Haryana Secondary Education has asked them to engage qualified computer teachers and computer lab assistants.
The communiqué corroborated that computer education in the schools is not being imparted to over one million students in the current academic session due to absence of computer faculty and lab assistants. The computer education is being adversely affected inspite of the good physical infrastructure available in the form of ICT labs in the schools, stated the letter.
The process of regular appointments of computer instructors already initiated by the Department is likely to take sometime, it stated.
Notably, as many as 12111 posts of Post Graduate Teacher (PGTs), 11177 posts of Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs), 7767 Masters Classical & Vernacular Teachers (C&V) and 12712 posts of Primary Teachers (PRTs)/Head Teachers are lying vacant in Haryana.