Provincialisation of services: Teachers’ body hails study report
SHILLONG: The Joint Action Committee of All Teachers’ Association in Meghalaya (JACATAM) has hailed the comparative study report submitted by the Directorate of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) to the State Government on the proposed provincialisation of the services of the teachers in the State.
“The DSEL on June 26 submitted Action Taken Report on the demand of teachers,” JACATAM chairman ED Nongsiang told newsmen after a meeting with DSEL director Ambrose Ch Marak here on Monday.
“The provincialisation of services of schoolteachers now totally depends on the ‘political-will’ of the state government,” he said.
The education department through the Director of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) took up a comparative study in other states – Tamil Nadu, Goa, Assam and Sikkim- to get clarity on the issue relating to provincialisation.
While divulging some of the details of the findings of the comparative study, Nongsiang said that the delegation found that there are three categories of schools in Kerala and Goa — Government, Provincialised and Self-Financed Schools.
“In Kerala, the State Government has provincialised all the schools which were set up before 1991,” JACATAM chairman said.
Informing about the findings of the team in Assam, he said that the Assam Government provincialised all the schools in 2011 and added that presently, there were three categories of schools in Assam — Government, Provincialised and Self-Financed Schools.
He said that the situation in Sikkim was a bit different “since it is yet to have its own board.”
“All the schools in Sikkim are affiliated either to the CBSE or ICSE,” he said adding that the service of the teachers is yet to be provincialised there.
He said that the Education department has to carry out some exercises on the total expenditures which will be required once services of the teachers are provincialised.
