Demands transparent result for NIOS trainees
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Schools Association met Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar and discussed a variety of issues pertaining to the welfare of SSA teachers in the state.
The delegation in a memorandum submitted to the Union Minister said the Project Approval Board in its meeting in 2011 had instructed the State to implement the training programme for in-service teachers to acquire professional two-year course training, which was also agreed in principle and committed by the State Government.
The NIOS has not been able to declare a revealed result of the course after the Association of Meghalaya NIOS D.El.Ed trainees Shillong, with the support and collaboration of MSSASA-CB had repeatedly had request the NIOS to rectify the anomalies and declared a transparent result for the trainees.
“The delay in taking out the (revised) results has put the trainees in difficult situation to claim the benefits from the State Educational Mission Authority of Meghalaya (SEMAM),’ the memorandum said.
The delegation said they had also requested the State Government to implement the mandatory norms of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the Right to Education Act, 2009, on the issues regarding creation and shifting of all Posts of Lower Primary and Upper Primary Teachers sanctioned under SSA from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan State Education Mission Authority Meghalaya (SSA-SEMAM) State Implementation Society to State Education Department and to create relevant posts under the Education Department after shifting from Implementation Society as per the mandatory norms of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
According to the Association, the matter has been referred to the State Government in many dialogues and meetings but the same has not been implemented till date, which can pave the welfare of the SSA school teachers in the State.
Stating that as per the pupil teachers’ ratio emphasized under the Right to Education Act 2009, there should be one assistant teacher for every 35 students for Lower Primary School and 40 students for Upper Primary School, the association rued that in Meghalaya, nearly all the villages in the remote areas have a density of 20 to 30 households and where villages are scattered from each other within a radius of 2 to 3 km.
The Association also said out of 2,238 approximately SSA Upper Primary schools, nearly 50% of the Upper Primary schools are in the semi-urban and rural areas and all such schools deserve to upgrade to secondary level.
