The Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has been thundering about declining standards in private schools. The government institutions are closing with dwindling strength. The high standards and demands are prerogative of private institutions. The Govt does not sanction permanent posts while permitting promotions in teaching and non teaching posts and the resultant vacancies are kept in abeyance. The daily teaching exercise cannot be postponed for another day The subject teachers with their specific workload cannot be Jack of all trades to substitute for non-sanctioned posts. It is not just one or two in a school . DSE has hundreds of them in all schools put together.
Suggestions to employ daily wages teachers at Rs 150 per day is ludicrous and smacks of arrogant attitudes. The daily wages of unskilled workers for about 5 hours is hovering over Rs 500. Even after 6 months the sanctioned pension is not being credited.The Govt is toying over the idea of extension of retirement age to 62 years to tide over terminal settlement of dues.The contract basis of appointment does not motivate teachers to work to full potential and is poor measure to curtail expenditure.The salaries of contract,temporary teachers are being paid after the end of the academic year.The govt is exploiting avaiable, glut of large pool of highly educated graduates trained too. It is the students who are deprived of their daily instructions by stop-gap arrangements which is not conducive in the field of Education.
