While expressing disappointment over poor attendance of teachers in the Government schools especially those located in mountainous parts of the State exerting adverse impact on education being provided to the enrolled students, the newly appointed Uttarakhand Education Minister, Arvind Pandey directed the senior education officers to ensure that attendance of teachers, education officers and non-teaching staff is increased at their respective posts as per official guidelines. The number of students decreasing in the Government schools is also a matter of concern. In view of this, the education officers were directed to take measures to increase number of students as well as to ensure that quality education is being provided to enrolled students. A proposal for setting up residential schools at block level should be made and submitted for approval, said the Minister.
Pandey presided over a meeting with the senior education officers at his office in Vidhan Sabha compound and said that it is matter of concern for us that Government schools are lacking in quality of education. Teachers do not attend their school located in mountainous parts regularly.
Poor attendance of teachers and other staff in the Government schools is a matter of concern which needs to be rectified.
Several schemes have been launched in schools to ensure imparting of quality education. He directed the education officers to execute Government schemes effectively in the schools.
He also directed the department officers to take all the possible steps to provide quality education in the Government schools in the State. Fund will not be a constraint for building necessary infrastructure in the Government schools, Pandey said, directing education officers to develop residential school as model school at block level. For this they need to draft a proposal and submit it for the next level of approval.
The education officers have been directed to identity schools wherein teachers are not available and facing infrastructure constraints. Such schools should be upgraded and for this proposal should be drafted and submitted to him for approval. Attendance of teachers, education officers and clerical staff should be increased at their respective postings. The education officers should take steps for imparting quality education to the students enrolled in the schools. The education officers should execute their work without pressure, unbiased and with honesty, he added.
Others present on the occasion were additional chief secretary Ranveer Singh, director general education Deependra Kumar Choudhary, additional secretary (Madhyamik) Dheerendra Dattal, director education, RK Kunwar and director (primary) Seema Jaunsari and others.