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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt gets cracking on RTE, to hire 80,000 teachers by Maulshree Seth

Govt gets cracking on RTE, to hire 80,000 teachers by Maulshree Seth

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published Published on Jun 20, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 20, 2011
After a long tussle with the Centre over sharing of expenditure, the Uttar Pradesh Government has finally started working on the implementation of the Right to Education Act.

The Basic Education Department has been asked to speed up work on finalising rules for the implementation of the Act as well as for conducting eligibility tests for appointing teachers. The government is keen to appoint 80,000 teachers before the Assembly elections are announced.

“As per the guidelines of the Act, there is a shortage of over 2.5 lakh teachers in the state but in the first phase, we plan to take up the appointment of about 80,000. These appointments would be taken up as per the guidelines, i.e. after conducting teachers’ eligibility tests. There is a provision that states can form their own rules on the basis of these guidelines and this process is going on here,” said a senior government officer.

He said the file regarding the draft rules, prepared by the Basic Education Department, has been sent to the state Finance Department for approval before it is placed before the Cabinet.

According to the calculations done by the Basic Education Department, the state requires about 6.45 lakh teachers for its basic schools going by the guideline of 1:30 teacher-pupil ratio and at least one teacher for one class.

At present, there are about 1.92 lakh regular teachers in the state government and about 1.78 lakh para teachers.

Similarly, the state will also require about 12,000 primary schools, about 1,000 junior high schools on the basis that a primary school (Class 1 to 5) is required within a radius of 1 km for a population of 300 people and one junior high school (class 6-8) within a radius of 3 km for a population of 800 people.

Sources said as per the present grading system, the new appointees would get about Rs 23,000 as monthly salary, the burden for which will be shared in the ratio of 65:35 by the central and state governments.

The sources said the government wanted to take up the teachers eligibility test (TET) as soon as possible but since it would require a lot of manpower and preparations, it can be done by the year end.

Under the draft rules, 60 per cent is the cut-off for selection. The TET results would be applicable for appointments in government as well as private schools across the state for the next five years.

The Indian Express, 20 June, 2011, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/govt-gets-cracking-on-rte-to-hire-80-000-teachers/806075/


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