Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Oct 6: Minister for Education Naeem Akhtar today informed the Legislative Assembly that Centre has released the money for setting up two Engineering Colleges in the State and work on two cluster Universities has been started.
While responding to a resolution moved by the MLA Rajeev Sharma about providing adequate staff for schools from Primary to High Secondary level, the Minister informed the House that Centre has yesterday released for first installment of Rs 11 crore for setting up of two Engineering Colleges, one each at Jammu and Srinagar at the cost of Rs 26 crore each.
Akhtar said that work on the two cluster Universities, one each at Jammu and Srinagar at the cost of Rs 55 crore each has already been started.
Minister said that the Government has put the teachers in a centrally organized pool and wherever their services are needed they will be posted accordingly. He said that this was done as there were posts of certain specialist subjects available in a school but there were no students for that subject. He said that now on the teachers will be posted on need basis.
Akhtar said that the department has done rationalization of the teachers as in some schools teachers were less and students were more and in other schools it was other ways round.
The Minster said that 3582 schools were rationalized and 5534 teachers were deployed in these schools.
Akhtar urged the MLAs across party lines to adopt one school in their constituency as a model school.
The Minister said that Centre had sanctioned 32 model schools for the State but not a single one was established and the money has been returned to the Centre as it lapsed.
Akhtar said that 63 Girls hostels were sanctioned in 2010 by the Centre and no work was started on them by the previous Government. He said that the work on them has been taken up recently.
The Minister said that smart classes are being started in 225 higher secondary schools, 220 computer centres in High secondary schools and equal number of computer centres in Middle Schools across the State.
Akhtar said that education sector was in a bad shape when he took over the charge.
The Minister said that despite Rs 50, 000 as salary to teachers, the results were not good to the extent that the teachers in these schools were sending their children to private schools. He said that the Jammu and Kashmir has the best qualified teachers available but they were being exploited by the previous Government.
Earlier, BJP MLAs rose to their feet during Zero Hour demanding that teachers have been wrongly posted and the Directors at Jammu and Srinagar have no powers to post the teachers. They said at places math teacher has been posted instead of Science and Science teachers were posted in place of language teachers.
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