The education department would soon cancel all the deputations and send teachers working on deputation and those posted at the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) back to the schools. An order in this regard was given by the education minister, Arvind Pandey in a meeting of senior officials of education department at Vidhan Sabha on Friday. The focus of the meeting was to improve the educational environment in the schools of the state. On a stern note, the minister asked the officers concerned that in order to ensure justified teacher, student ratio in the schools, data from all the blocks should be compiled and worked upon. He tersely told that all the teachers working on deputation or posted at DIETs should be sent back to their original schools. He said that in view of its unique geographical conditions, Uttarakhand would register its recommendation to the union HRD ministry for National education policy. These suggestions would relate to all the Himalayan states.
The Minister said all the 13 Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidhyalayas would be developed as model schools and a meeting regarding this would be held on August 7. In the meeting the Minister said that the Uttarakhand should suggest the planners of National education policy that emphasis on capacity development of students should be done and efforts should be made to improve mental and physical development of the students. The officials suggested that artisans should be invited on stipend to teach students on different aspects of vocational education. It was also suggested that at every five kilometres a school complex should be set up in which primary, middle and ITI schools are there. The campus should have residential facility for teachers and Principals. The participants in the meeting expressed reservation on use of word Public by the private schools. Emphasis on generation of a unique ID for every student was also made during the meeting.
The secretary school education Ranjit Sinha, director education R K Kunwar, Director State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT), Seema Jaunsari, additional director (AD) SEMAT, Shashi Chaudhary, AD SCERT, A K Nautiyal, AD Vandana Gabriyal, R K Uniyal, V S Rawat and joint director B S Negi and others participated in the meeting.