Govt to give laptops to middle school headmasters
Srinagar: Pledging to end corruption in education sector, Minister for Education Naeem Akhtar Saturday said they would take all measures to make government schools at par with the private ones.
“We will ensure transparency, accountability and efficiency. I will make government schools competitive and attractive so that people send their children to these schools and not pay exorbitant rates at places where education had been reduced to a lucrative business,” Akhtar said while addressing a press conference in Jammu.
Akhtar said there are 24,265 schools with 16.68 lakh students and 1.43 lakh teaching staff.
“This means in physical terms the state education department is half of the entire state government. And yet, the passout percentage of government schools is 50% which is 25% less than that of private schools. In the Jammu province during the last five years, just four students have figured in the top 20 in the 10th class exams,” he said.
The Education maintained that most difficult problem for the Department has been postings and transfers of teachers. “It is not fully verified, but I have been told that there has been a racket in transfers and postings and the racket goes right up to the exam centre where bids were held at astronomical rates to manage exams”, he said.
Akhtar said his government will ensure transparency, accountability and efficiency in the education system.
He also said that relocation of teachers to places where their services are gainfully utilized, postings of teacher couples together at convenient places where they can deliver and incentives like laptops to middle school headmasters are just the beginning to make the turnaround possible.
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