Taking a proactive approach after reinstatement of State Government, the State Education Minister, Mantri Prasad Naithani, said on Friday that he would hold weekly reviews on all pending issues of the department.
The Minister said this while taking a review meeting of senior officers of education department on Friday at the Vidhan Sabha. In the meeting the Minister directed the officials to get all the tasks completed in a time bound manner. He also directed the officials to get the pending issues completed within a week.
In the review of Sanskrit education, the Minister said that 200 posts of Principals and lecturers are vacant in the 94 Sanskrit schools of the State and process of appointments in these posts should be expedited. He said that the Government had asked to open five Sanskrit schools in every block of the State and directed that the work in this direction should speed up. The officers told the minister that State education council has proposed up gradation of 36 Sanskrit schools to colleges and 10 such schools would be upgraded in this academic session. The minister also directed the officials to ensure that all pendencies on the issue of revamp of the Sanskrit Education directorate be done within a week. The land for the Sanskrit education directorate is earmarked and a sum of Rs 1 Crore is also approved but the work on it could not progress due to encroachments on the land. The minister called up the district magistrate of Dehradun and asked him to take necessary action to free this land.
In the review of Primary education department the minister sought the list of transfers of seriously ill and differently able teachers which were done under section 29 recently. The officials told the Minister that the process of promotions on the posts of lTs and lecturers is complete now and 1371 teachers have been posted against 1431 posts. He was also informed that the process of recruitment in the model schools is also underway and department has set the ball rolling for 746 posts of physical education and Yoga teachers.
The minister also asked the officers to initiate a process of recruitment in the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs).
He also directed for publication of a district wise booklet mentioning the achievements of the department. The meeting was attended by Secretary in charge, Usha Shukla, Additional Secretary Ranjana, OSD, GD Raturi, Joint Secretary, D Paliwal, Director Secondary, RK Kunwar and Primary education director Seema Jaunsari.