No role for primary teachers this year

PRIMARY TEACHERS will not be engaged in the duty of this year's High School and Intermediate examinations, which will likely start from March 7. The State Government has issued this instruction to the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad in this connection.

PRIMARY TEACHERS will not be engaged in the duty of this year's High School and Intermediate examinations, which will likely start from March 7. The State Government has issued this instruction to the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad in this connection.

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This step is aimed at maintaining teaching at primary schools. The Asia's biggest examination, which is held every year for nearly 40 consecutive days, requires primary teachers' help for its smooth conduct.

The step has been taken in view of several problems faced by the primary schools at the time of their home examinations. Usually, the home examinations begin right after the board examinations, usually in April-end or beginning of May. Hence, the courses are to be completed in hurry without any revision. As a result the quality of teaching and examination is affected at primary schools.

The Education Department officers disclosed that the government did not want to engage primary teachers in board examinations to facilitate teaching at primary schools.

Besides, the Mid-Day Meal scheme also gets affected in the absence of primary teachers during board examinations. The State Government wants to conduct home examinations after a 15-day course revision at primary schools. The situation in rural area is apathetic, especially at those primary schools which have only two teachers and both are engaged in the board examination duty.

Notably, primary teachers have been invigilating in the UP Board examination for the last eight years because of dearth of higher secondary teachers at intermediate colleges. As many as 390 primary teachers were usually engaged in examination duty in Allahabad every year.