Strict disciplinary action would be initiated against the teachers and the headmasters of the institutions where all the examinees have flunked the board examinations, warned the state education minister Arvind Pandey while undertaking a review meeting of the education department on Monday.
In the meeting, the officials of education department and Uttarakhand Vidhyalayee Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) Ramnagar participated. The minister was told that there are five such schools in the state where the not even a single student passed this year's board examination. The minister said that it is really worrying that despite providing all support, there are schools which have zero passing percentage.
He made it clear that strict action would be taken against such teachers and headmasters. On the other hand, the minister was all praise for the teachers where the pass percentage is better.
The minister directed that teachers and head of the schools with 100 percent pass percentage would be felicitated when the schools reopen in July. later talking to the newsmen, the minister said that the state government is committed to improve the quality of education in the schools. In response to a question regarding transfers in the department the minister said that there are some discrepancies in the list of Easy to access ( Sugam) and hard to access schools (Durgam) and they are being sorted out. He added that the transfers would be done according to the transfer policy.