To guarantee quality education in government-aided schools, the Tripura government has made significant revisions to the rules governing those institutions, according to a minister.
Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath told the media on Sunday that under the revised rule, the school managing committee will form a committee similar to the Tripura Teachers’ Recruitment Board with approval from the director of the school education department for the hiring drive.
However, he added, the hiring of teachers must adhere to the student-teacher ratio set forth for institutions run by the government.
“I had a meeting with the authorities of government aided schools on how to manage the schools in the best possible way. In the meeting, most of them had suggested amending the old service rule for these schools,” he said, as per PTI.
According to the minister, a clause not included in the previous service regulation now allows the school authority to transfer teachers to nearby government-aided schools based on demand and the scenario.
The agency considered it important to streamline the system in these schools to provide quality education, he added, therefore the service rule for government-aided schools that was adopted in 2005 has been modified.
In the past, the managing committee of a particular school conducted interviews on its own and appointed teachers as needed.
“There will be inspection of government-aided schools once in five years. If faults are identified, the concerned school will be given a two-year period to rectify them but if it fails to deliver, the particular school will be merged to a nearby government educational institute,” he said.
“The government is spending for these schools and therefore they must be accountable to provide quality education. That is the reason behind bringing change in the obsolete service rule,” he said.
He added that the process for choosing headmasters has been made simpler. A postgraduate teacher can be promoted to assistant headmaster after serving seven years in the position.
If the assistant headmaster completes a year of service, he or she will be eligible for promotion to headmaster, Nath continued.
In 43 government-aided schools, a total of 26,409 students are enrolled, and there are 1426 teachers overall.
(With inputs from PTI)
