DIMAPUR, AUGUST 25 (MExN): The All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) today submitted a representation to the School Education Minister, calling for the formulation of state specific plan while implementing the Parliament Act Section 23(2) of the Right to Education.
It felt that the requisite 50% marks at Higher Secondary level for admission to D.El.Ed. Course for in-service teachers must be scrapped as the department had never applied this criterion while giving appointment to the elementary teachers.
The ANGPTA said that till around the year 2000, the government allowed people with matriculate and below qualifications to be appointed as Primary Teachers in some of the backward areas of the state. “In this regard, it is our stand that all the Primary Teachers currently serving under the department of School Education should be grouped under the same category and allowed to undergo the D.EL.Ed. training within the stipulated time period. That, the condition to complete Higher Secondary level course through NIOS concurrently with the professional course must not be applied in our state,” it added.
It pointed out that the number of untrained teachers is still very high and as such all cannot be accommodated for trainings at the SCERT and DIETs within the stipulated time frame. In this situation, the association appealed for the Minister to make alternative arrangements by means of identifying and empowering few selected EBRCs in each districts to function as D.El.Ed. centres. This, it reasoned would ease the problems faced by the teachers serving in remote areas and will also help in achieving the lofty targe.
