The transfer of teachers should be done on the basis of transfers policy but the department officers should not completely ignore practical situations in transfers, said the Education Minister of Uttarakhand Mantri Prasad Naithani while presiding over a review meeting of department at Vidhan Sabha here on Monday. The Minister said that the transfer cases of the teachers suffering from critical diseases should be reviewed. He directed the Primary and secondary education directors to ensure that the specially teachers are posted in the schools located on road head depending on the type of their disability. He even set up a time frame of one week for this. It is worth mentioning here that the department has 45 specially able teachers in secondary and 81 in Primary education department.
Naithani said that the State Government has appointed 5300 guest teachers against 7700 vacant posts of teachers in the Government schools of the State. He said that the process of counseling for filling the vacant posts of teachers by guest teachers is complete in all the districts of the State.
The Minister appealed the teachers to ensue that the students of primary schools are provided such education that focuses on basics. He said the teachers should use the ‘Unati’ programme to strengthen English language of students and efforts should be made to enroll the Anaganwadi students in the Primary schools. Stressing the need of agriculture science the Minister said that students would know about season and crops when they are given knowledge of this subject.
The Minister was informed that proposals for opening science subjects in 15 schools have been forwarded to the State Government similarly request for creation of teaching posts for mathematics subject is sent to the government. He was told that 137 cases of up gradation of High schools to Inter colleges are pending at the level of state government similarly 57 cases of announcement of up gradation of schools made by Chief Minister are in various stages of clearance in government. The officials informed Naithani that 32 proposals for non financial recognition for High schools/ inter colleges were brought before the recognition committee in its meeting regarding unaided schools on June 22 and of them was forwarded to the government for approval. On the issue of transfers the Minister was told that 706 and 604 cases of objections were received on transfers of lT and lecturers respectively.
Naithani asked the officers to expedite the process of DPC of Principals. The Minister was told that the process of recruitment for the posts of lecturers is currently on. Naithani said that the Union HRD minister Smriti Irani is expected to visit the state in the month of September and the department officers should prepare a detailed account of the problems they are facing. This document would be presented to the Union Minister.
The meeting was attended by OSD G D Raturi, Secretary secondary education M C Joshi, Secretary Primary education D Senthil Pandian, Additional secretary Usha Shukla, Director Secondary R K Kunwar, Director Primary Seema Jaunsari and others.