'Rationalisation process of teachers to be finalised by next month'
Work on to address shortage of teachers
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 04 2022:
Education Minister Thounaojam Basantakumar has said that the Government will make an effort to complete the rationalisation process of teachers posting by October this year.
Speaking to media persons at Babupara today, the Education Minister said that the State altogether has 1884 Government schools from primary to higher secondary level.
Saying that many Government schools in Manipur don't have adequate infrastructure and teaching staff, Basantakumar continued that about 6945 teaching and 235 non teaching staff posts in school education are lying vacant currently.
The Education Minister claimed that this shortage of teaching and non-teaching staff is caused due to non filling up of vacant posts on time since a decade back.
Maintaining that the Government doesn't have the resources to resolve the shortage of teachers immediately, Basantakumar stated that the Government, nonetheless, is working to resolve the issue of teachers shortage on the advice of Chief Minister N Biren Singh.
The Education Minister further stated that the process to recruit 923 graduate teachers is almost completed.
The Government will also recruit some pre-primary, primary and Hindi graduate teachers but it will take time, he added.
He reiterated that the rationalisation of teachers' posting will be completed by the end of next month (October) .
On the mass casual leave protest of SSA and RMSA teachers, Th Basantakumar said that the teachers opted to hold the protest due to miscommunication and added that this is very unfortunate.
Saying that the Education (S) Department absorbed SSA and RMSA teachers as regular teachers as per a notification issued on July 20, 2020, the Education Minister said that they (RMSA and SSA teachers) are also State employees.
On School Fagathansi Mission (SFM), Th Basantakumar said that the initiative was taken up to develop some select schools as a model school and not to upgrade all the Government schools in one go.
Maintaining that the SFM is in its second phase and there would be a third phase too, the Education Minister said that assuming SFM as a failed undertaking of the Government by showing some schools with inadequate infrastructure would be wrong.
He claimed that the rate of enrolment at Government schools rose by 29 per cent since the inception of SFM.
To a query, Th Basantakumar said that the disproportion in posting teachers at Government schools would be fixed once the rationalisation of teachers is completed.
Education (S) Commissioner H Gyan Prakash and Director L Nandakumar also attended the press briefing.