Despite severe efforts, the streamlining of lopsided Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) in authorities colleges has thrown up a primary mission for the School Education Department (SED). Over the years, the SED has been suffering to streamline the damaging PTR in colleges, however the adjustment of surplus workforce and strengthening the ‘unmarried instructor colleges’ has been stuck in legit wrangles.
In the current past, the SED deputed instructors from number one and center colleges to conquer the shortage of coaching workforce in excessive and better secondary colleges leaving the previous instructor-poor. The instructors have been deputed to excessive colleges as a part of instructional association to offer subject-unique instructors to the scholars in excessive colleges.
“But the flow led to disaster withinside the number one and center colleges which have been left with out instructors,” an legit stated. He stated that 3 to 4 instructors ran the center colleges having college students from 1st to eighth general even as one or instructors run the number one colleges having college students in 5 instructions.
“In a few cases, a number of the number one colleges are run through unmarried instructors which has taken a toll on the lecturers of the scholars. It isn’t always humanly feasible for a unmarried instructor to control 5 instructions simultaneously,” the legit stated. He stated that the deputation of instructors from center and number one colleges to excessive and better secondary colleges changed into achieved with out following merits.
“Besides lecturers, the unmarried instructor published in number one colleges additionally has to appearance after specific assignments given through the district management or the directorate. In maximum of the cases, lecturers take a beat seat because the instructor stays busy in coping with different assignments given through the branch,” the legit stated.
Another legit stated that maximum of the unmarried instructor colleges have been placed in a long way off locations of various districts as a few instructors have been both adjusted in workplaces or had controlled their deputations out in their zones. “This is any other motive why the faculties are left with out instructors,” the legit stated. The legit records of the Ministry of Education (MoE) discovered that round 22 percentage colleges on the number one degree and 60 percentage colleges on the higher number one degree had an damaging PTR.
The figures display that J&K SED has over 10,000 surplus instructors. “The surplus instructors have remained unutilised as nobody desires to serve in colleges placed in a long way off regions,” the legit stated. While majority of the center colleges are instructor-poor, the branch has published surplus workforce in a few center colleges having meager enrollment.
“Basically, posting of instructors or deputation isn’t always achieved on merits. Some instructors control their posting in close by colleges even as different colleges in a long way off regions are left instructor-poor,” the legit stated. Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Rajiv Rai Batnagar instructed Greater Kashmir that he might speak the problem with Principal Secretary SED. “If there are times of colleges with surplus workforce or instructor-poor colleges, humans ought to proportion it with me and I will take in the difficulty with the branch to solve the problem,” he stated.