Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 31: Descri-bing primary schooling as the pivot of a strong educational system, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today accorded top priority to opening of model schools at pre-nursery and primary levels in all districts of the State to improve the quality of lower education.
Intervening during Question Hour in the Legislative Assembly, the Chief Minister asked the Education Minister to also take up the issue of opening more Kendriya and Navodaya Vidyalayas with the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
“There is an urgent requirement to establish more Kendriya Vidyalayas. We will have to approach the MHRD Ministry and I will also meet the Minister for MHRD in Delhi in this regard,” he stated.
Earlier, Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar informed the House that a new transfer policy in Education Department is under formulation and rationalization of teaching staff has been started, adding that focussed attention will also be given to the development of human resource in the State.
Replying to supplementaries, the Minister said steps would be initiated to make Government educational institutions more vibrant so that people prefer to admit their wards in these institutions instead of private ones.
He said that engagement of contractual lecturers for current academic session has not been stopped, adding that the process of engagement of contractual lecturers would be initiated before the start of next academic session. He said focussed attention will also be given to fill up the vacant posts of teachers in the schools, adding that recruitment process of teaching staff through SSRB would also be expedited.
Replying to the main question by Shakti Raj Parihar, the Minister said that 18 Masters, 149 Teachers and 398 ReTs (Regular) have been transferred in Doda district during the 2014-15. He said as compared to 1967 regular ReTs in the entire district, the number of transferees is large and has led to depletion of staff in rural areas.
The Minister said that out of 440 vacancies of teachers in district Doda, 408 have been referred to SSRB and the interviews for these posts have been already conducted.
Replying to another question by Neelam Langeh, the Minister said that expansion of education is top priority of the Government, adding that focussed attention would be given to upgrade educational infrastructure in remote and hilly areas. He said optimal teacher-student ratio would be maintained in schools.
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