Showing a strong disapproval of tendencies of Government school teachers for not taking their duties seriously which is exemplified in the poor result of classes X and XII this year, Education Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani said that the time has arrived for working on a master plan to improve the standard of teaching in the Government schools.
The Minister made these remarks while undertaking a review meeting of school education department at Vidhan Sabha here on Wednesday. He said that the teachers should work with total responsibility if the quality of education is to be improved in the State. Expressing his worry on the recent results of Uttarakhand board, Naithani said that 169461 and 143159 students participated in class X and class XII examination of state board respectively out of which the pass percentage of class X examination was 70.68 and the percentage of class XII examination remained at 74.54 percent, which needs improvement.
The Minister directed that the posting of teachers should be done on priority where the posts are vacant. He said that process of promotions to the posts of lecturers and lecturer Teacher (lT) should be expedited. Naithani directed that the advertisements for appointments as Guest Faculty should be published in newspapers soon so that the teachers are available in all the schools till the month of July. He said that the department should ensure that the meritorious students are felicitated.
The Minister ordered the senior officials to make efforts for introduction of science subject in the Inter colleges where this facility is not available till now. Taking a strong stand on attachment of teachers against norms, Naithani demanded a list of all attachments and said that disciplinary action should be initiated against the officers responsible for such attachments. He said that the textbooks should be made available in the schools when they reopen after the summer vacations. The meeting was attended by additional Chief secretary S Raju, Officer on special Duty (OSD) G D Raturi, Secretary education M C Joshi, additional secretary education Usha Shukla, director Secondary education R K Kunwar and others.