Principal Correspondent
Kohima, April 22
Teachers in government schools in Nagaland will soon be rationalized as the Department is working on a policy to upgrade or promote the graduate government primary teachers as head teachers and move them to higher classes requiring their services. Interacting with media persons recently, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education, Yitachu said, “We are working on a policy for promotion of graduate primary teachers as primary head teachers and put them under graduate scale and if they have Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) qualification they will be promoted further”.
The policy once implemented will affect 2049 teachers in GPS and they would be considered as senior primary teachers or primary head teachers.
Subsequently, Yitachu expressed that these teachers would be sent to various schools, which will ultimately rationlise deployment of teachers and also help in solving the problem of shortfall of teachers in government schools in the State.
This will also open up avenues for young and highly qualified youths, he added.
He said considering the overall number of government teachers employed, there should not be any short-fall except for Mathematics and Science teachers and also primary level considering the linguistic problem. He said most of the teachers after getting recruited do not want to be posted in interior areas but desire to be in Kohima and Dimapur or attached to directorate and legislators creating the problem of shortfall.
Nonetheless, Yitachu maintained that once the redeployment of teachers takes place under the new policy which is in the offing the shortfall should be overcome.
The Parliamentary Secretary also revealed that Under Rashtrya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) around 672 posts of teachers are to be filled up in 112 Government High Schools. The written exams for the same have already been conducted while the oral interview will be held within short span.
Presently, he said except for the IEDSS (Inclusive Education of the Disabled at Secondary Stage) case being taken up by Vigilance Case there is no other major cases within the Department.
On restructuring of the administrative employees of Education Department, he said the process is almost completed while the final process has been sent for financial implication to be completed by the accounts section. After the accounts section clears the financial implication, it will be moved at the government level.
Asked on the policy of the Government to downgrade government schools with zero pass percentage in HSLC exams, he said the policy cannot be enforced at this juncture as most of the schools have poor results because of lack of subject teachers in several schools.
