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U.P.: Teachers’ recruitment stopped in 489 schools of social welfare dept
Recruitment of teachers has been stopped in 489 primary schools of the state which are recognised by Uttar Pradesh basic education department and are being operated and funded by the social welfare department, say social welfare department officials in the know about the matter
Recruitment of teachers has been stopped in 489 primary schools of the state which are recognised by Uttar Pradesh basic education department and are being operated and funded by the social welfare department, say social welfare department officials in the know about the matter.
Under secretary (administration) Ashok Kumar Yadav sent a missive to the director, social welfare department, on May 11 in this regard and also dissolved the committees constituted under respective district magistrates for the approval of teachers’ recruitment in these schools, they added. A request has also been made to rationalise the student-teacher ratio in all these schools, the officials say.
As per a senior official, when the social welfare department compiled information of teachers working in its funded schools and the total count of enrolled students in them from the district social welfare officers in October 2021, it was found that a total of 71,006 students were registered in 489 schools. Against the sanctioned 3,676 posts of teachers, 1,759 teachers were working in these schools.
That is an average of 7.5 posts of teachers are sanctioned per institution in these schools, offering education from class 1 to class 5 to enrolled students whose numbers were very less. Even some schools have 23 to 25 teachers, official add.
It also emerged that the total number of sanctioned posts of teachers in the schools ranged from 23 to 25—unusually high for primary schools as usually so many posts are sanctioned only in intermediate colleges or higher education institutions.
The government believes that after the universalisation of education, the usefulness of these primary schools of social welfare department has ended to a great extent as schools have been established every 1 to 1.5km by the state basic education department.
The missive, a copy of which is with HT, clarifies that there is no justification for running schools which have less than 30 students as a government-aided institution. By getting the students of these schools admitted to other nearby schools of the basic education department, the teachers working here have been asked to be adjusted in other schools. For this, there will be adjustment by the social welfare officer (development) at the district level, the divisional joint director of education at the divisional level and the director outside divisions.
The government has also made it clear that if needed in future, teachers will be recruited through a competitive examination in government funded schools of social welfare department similarly as teachers are being recruited in government-aided junior high schools.
