SHILLONG: Education Minister, Lahkmen Rymbui on Wednesday said, “ The Education department is not an employment agency and it lacks trained teachers in the schools of the state.”
“As of now, the Education department is like an employment agency and it does not give any quality education,” he said on the occasion of Teacher’s Day celebration at U Soso Tham Auditorium on Wednesday.
Stating that the Education department has got limitations and the state government has diagnosed the problem and will try to find the solution, he said, “What is the solution? We may have to close down some of the single-digit schools. We will rationalise the schools on the basis of teacher-student ratio but within the ambit of RTE.”
“We will do that, we have to that and there is no way out if we want to make the Education department a department which enlightens and gives quality education to the state, not as an employment agency of the state,” he said.
Throwing a challenge to the government schools to perform better, Rymbui pointed to the below par performance of the government schools in the state which are often looked down upon by the society even though the government schools have trained teachers and are well paid.
“I request teachers of government schools to be dedicated themselves for the betterment of education in the government schools. The year 2018 is a challenge. I want the government schools to perform in the SSLC next year and they should be far better and not 30-40 per cent like this year,” he said.