DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 21 (MExN): The All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA), Tuensang unit has urged the Department of School Education to review the Office Memorandum (OM) on guidelines for training of untrained teachers. A press note from the ANSTA Tuensang informed that as per the office memorandum, 11,987 teachers are to be trained within a period of 5 years.
Stating that institutions for pursuing of DIET and B.Ed under Nagaland University cannot accommodate even a few hundred in a year, the ANSTA Tuensang said that the OM needs review.
Pointing out that the criteria required to pursue B.Ed and PSTE DIET is 45% in any institution, the ANSTA Tuensang said that many in service teachers possess percentage below the benchmark required.
“Hence, as those teachers were appointed to their post without referring to the marks they obtained in BA and 10+2, the concerned department needs to ponder over the matter before course of action against the untrained teachers is executed in the form of stopping pay increment and the effect of MACP,” it said.
It further informed that as per the guidelines, for full time B.Ed/PSTE/DIET/D.EL.ED course, substitute teachers would be arranged and the salary will be borne by the concerned teachers. This, it said, “is something like arranging a proxy teacher, which is being discouraged by all NGOs and the department itself.”
It further suggested that since the RTE Act came into effect from 2009, “why not the department consider some cut off year for undergoing a mass training of untrained teachers.”
