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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No computer teachers, classes shut down in govt schools -Shikha Sharma

No computer teachers, classes shut down in govt schools -Shikha Sharma

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published Published on Oct 1, 2013   modified Modified on Oct 1, 2013
-The Indian Express


Delhi: Each time students at the Government Boys Senior Secondary School in Dilshad Garden ask their principal to recruit a full-time computer teacher, they are told to take private tuitions instead. "If we push too hard, he threatens to strike the subject off. Forget excelling, how are we expected to even clear our exams without a teacher?" asks a Class XI student.

Students of the school, though, are relatively lucky. Theirs' is one of the few government schools in the capital that at least allows Class XI and XII students to study the subject. Barring a little over a hundred schools, government, government-aided and MCD schools in the city do not even offer that choice.

According to a reply by the Education department in the state Assembly, only 111 such schools teach computer science, and that too only in Class XI and XII. No formal computer education exists for children in lower classes (Class VI-X), except for a CAL (computer-aided learning) lab in every school.

No recruitment has taken place in the last two years for the posts of permanent computer teachers created by the department. When questioned in Parliament, the department replied, "Posts of TGT and PGT computer teachers exist but the process of framing rules for recruitment is underway."

So, the schools are making do with guest teachers appointed by school principals for a period of 90 days. "Every year, we are recruited before the half-yearly and final exams for a month-and-half to conduct a crash course and take exams. Then, it's back to square one. An increasing number of children are, in fact, dropping out of the subject because of this," a computer teacher said.

Principals have been directed by the Directorate of Education to pay guest teachers from school funds - something they are not keen on. So many are dropping the subject altogether or recruiting teachers according to what they can pay. "I go to school three times a week because the principal says she can afford to pay me only for three days," another computer teacher said.

Many schools cite lack of computers as a reason for dropping the subject. In the last eight months alone, 23 schools have done away with computer science, according to government data.

If government schools score badly, MCD schools fare even worse. At MCD schools, the subject hasn't been taught at all in the last three years.

"We had a streamlined computer programme in place but things fell flat after the trifurcation of the MCD and problems with the contractor. We are in the process of getting things in order," Satish Upadhyay, chairman (education committee), South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), said.

"A proposal for building computer labs in East corporation schools has been passed and is awaiting implementation. In the North, we are thinking of starting computer education in 30 model schools," Yogendra Mann, PRO, North and East corporations, said. On the ground, however, no action has been taken.

Things weren't this bad always. In March 2011, computer education was fully contracted out by the government with 727 schools having fully-equipped computer labs and three teachers per school.

But the contract was not renewed on account of "irreconcilable differences with the company", a senior official in the Education department said.

Since then, computers at most schools have been lying in various states of dysfunction, gathering dust, as students wait for the authorities to "reboot their system".


The Indian Express, 1 October, 2013, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/no-computer-teachers-classes-shut-down-in-govt-schools/1176621/0


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