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published Published on Jan 19, 2013   modified Modified on Jan 19, 2013
-The Times of India

AHMEDABAD: Even as the state government tom-toms its high enrollment rates in primary government schools in rural areas, it has done little to tackle teachers' deficit or to improve teaching quality in government schools. The poor quality of education - highlighted by the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012, released on Friday - is being squarely blamed on the despairing and overburdened primary school teachers in rural Gujarat. They are forced to run errands during government festivals, surveys and melas and have to juggle between classes.

Chandu Joshi, the president of the Primary Teachers' Association, said that over the past two years teachers were involved in government activities for 103 days and were out of their classes.

The deficit in staff, according to the survey, led teachers to take multiple classes. The survey noticed that in 40.4% schools, standard II children joined other classes; while in 36% schools, standard IV students were seen sitting in one or more classes. The result was evident - today, only 35% of class VIII students can read easy sentences in English and only 13% can read standard I Gujarati textbooks. And the level of maths knowledge too continues to decline. In 2012, 50.9% of students of class V were not able to solve simple two-digit subtraction problems.

Joshi said that government primary schools have a deficit of 22,000 teachers and that 7,000 teachers retire every year. "The motivation to teach is minimum among primary teachers," Joshi said. "This is because of a flawed recruitment process in which a teacher recruited on a fixed pay for five years is paid Rs 5,300 a month and does the same amount of work as a permanent primary school teacher drawing Rs 25,000 a month. How do you expect any commitment?"

However, the director of primary education, Manoj Agarwal, said: "I disagree about the teacher shortage. We still maintain a ratio of one teacher for 30 students. We spent Rs 10,000 on every primary school student. We are improving learning skills among children as was revealed in the recent Gunotsav survey." He said the ASER survey was about 700 schools in the state and could not be representative of all primary schools.

The Times of India, 19 January, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Teachers-in-despair-education-suffers/articleshow/18082186.cms


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