(Deepshikha Gautam, Intern Journalist) Lucknow: There are more than 72 thousand teachers in government primary schools who are surplus. Surplus means that where they are not needed. The Right to Education Act came into force over nine years but still according to RTE standards, the deployment of teachers has not been done school-wise.
Now the Department of Basic Education is trying to deploy these surplus teachers first according to the standards through inter-district transfers and then transfers and adjustments in the districts.
The online system can be helpful in this because the issue of surplus teachers in the department is not new. The central government has said that 72,353 teachers posted in government schools of UP are surplus and that they should be posted according to the rules. According to RTE standards, a teacher rules on 30 children from class 1 to 5. At the same time, a teacher’s rule has been made on 35 children in junior schools, but there are many schools in the state, where teachers are posted 6-7 but children are not more than 100. Most urban schools and rural schools adjoining the city have more teachers.
When RTE came into force in the state, the enrollment game started in schools.
A single child started being registered in all the nearby schools. To deal with this, the government has made the rules for deployment according to the number of children eating mid-day meal instead of enrolled children, but the department has failed to correct the ratio. Earlier, the issue of surplus teachers has been arising, but the department is not able to correct it even after lakhs of efforts as the candidate of Baghpat also takes appointment in Shravasti at the time of recruitment, but after three years, with the help of loud jugaad, he can reach his district. He reach with a transfer. Due to this, there is always a state of imbalance.
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