Agartala:The Tripura government will take stern action against ‘proxy’ tea-chers and their employers in government and government-aided schools, an education department official said here on Friday.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, during a meeting here Thursday, asked education depart-ment officials to take strict action against ‘proxy’ tea-chers and their employers.
“In recent months, 38 government school tea-chers have been dismissed from service for engaging ‘proxy’ teachers in schools in remote and hilly areas,” the official said.
It has been observed that the government school teachers posted in schools located in remote and hilly areas usually engage proxy teachers.
According to Tripura school education depart-ment director Pradip Chakra-borty, around 1,500 govern-ment school teachers were either suspended or other action was taken against them last year for neglecting their duties.
He said the state govern-ment has taken a series of measures, to be effective from this academic session, to ensure 85 percent atten-dance of students and 100 percent attendance of teachers in a bid to improve the quality of education in Tripura. He also said that “a continuous and compre-hensive evaluation (CCE) would be undertaken from this year up to standard eight instead of the conventional examina-tions”(IANS).