Express News Service
27 Sep 2009
27 Sep 2009
Bhubaneswar : While the objective of the universalisation of primary education is to provide access to education to all children by 2010, the State has miles to go before achieving the target.
As per the Government estimate, total enrolment of children at primary level was 67.15 lakh in 2008-09. There are 43,109 primary schools (class-I to V) and about 14,000 upper primary schools (class IV to VII & class V to VII).If a single teacher is appointed for each class at the elementary level, the minimum requirement of teachers is 2,15,545. On the same standard, about 40,000 teachers will be required for the upper primary schools.
While the total requirement of teachers for the primary schools is about 2.55 lakh, the sanctioned strength till last year was 1,66,378. Teachers numbering 35,890 took retirement during the last 10 years when there was a freeze on recruitment. Another 2,000 teachers might have retired by this time this year. On an average three per cent Government employees retire every year.
Though the Government opened 2,550 new schools in the primary and upper primary level last year, no new teacher post has been created. The minimum requirement of teachers for the new schools will be over 15,500.
Shikshyak Mahasangha general secretary Abani Boral said 12,918 schools were functioning under the District Primary Education Programme without creation of new teacher posts.
Though the Government opened 2,550 new schools in the primary and upper primary level last year, no new teacher post has been created. The minimum requirement of teachers for the new schools will be over 15,500.
Shikshyak Mahasangha general secretary Abani Boral said 12,918 schools were functioning under the District Primary Education Programme without creation of new teacher posts.
Though the Government claims to have posted more than 50,000 shikshya sahayaks, in reality there are only 37,043 such contractual teachers. As per the national yardstick, the student-teacher ratio should be ideally 40:1. On the same yardstick, the State is having a shortage of 76,000 teachers. From this one can well imagine the quality of education being imparted at the primary school level, Boral remarked.
After inclusion of Class-VIII under Sarva Shikshya Abhijan, posting of additional teachers is required for subjects like Sanskrit, Hindi and Science. The Government is yet to take initiative to provide specialised teachers for these subjects, he said.
After inclusion of Class-VIII under Sarva Shikshya Abhijan, posting of additional teachers is required for subjects like Sanskrit, Hindi and Science. The Government is yet to take initiative to provide specialised teachers for these subjects, he said.
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