Jalandhar, November 15
Contrary to the claims of the regular teachers on deputation, contractual teachers under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) today said the DRP posts were not sanctioned by the Union Human Resources Ministry (UHRM). The ministry had sanctioned only BRP subject-specific posts under the SSA, they said.
They said the SSA project started in 2001-02 and all district Management Informatics System (MIS) coordinators work under the MIS deputy manager who is also a contractual employee and is working since 2009. They demanded that the government should implement the “equal work equal pay” rule to all the employees of under the SSA.
Recently, the Education Department, Punjab, had deputed regular teachers as district MIS coordinators in 22 districts under SSA. A major duty assigned to these teachers ondeputation is preparing the annual SSA budget, maintaining web portals of the state government and responsibility of U-Dise Survey (National-level survey for the annual budget plan of SSA conducted by Punjab).
The U-Dise survey includes data entry and report generation on sophisticated computer software.
Some say that these duties should be performed by highly skilled computer professionals because the job needs in-depth knowledge of computer and knowing mere basics of computer are not enough. But the Education Department has deputed agriculture (1), primary JBT teachers (9), math, science and Punjabi teacher (one each) for the computer-oriented technical post, they said.
The department did not bother to look at their eligibility and qualification for these posts and rather favoured teachers with political approach, they alleged. They further said these deputed teachers had not been taught computer at their schools even for a single day but were made component in-charge at the district level for the post of MIS district coordinator.
Interestingly, 142 block MIS have been recruited under the SSA. The minimum eligibility for the recruitment of these block MIS coordinators is three year degree in computer.
“It is ridiculous that the department has deputed JBT and agriculture teachers who do not have certified computer qualification. They are directing graduate and postgraduate computer professionals,” a teacher said.
Moreover, in spite of the RTE Act, these teachers are given non-teaching assignments in district offices and do not meet even the minimum requirement for this technical post, he claimed.
Contrary to the claims of the regular teachers on deputation, contractual teachers under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) today said the DRP posts were not sanctioned by the Union Human Resources Ministry (UHRM). The ministry had sanctioned only BRP subject-specific posts under the SSA, they said.
They said the SSA project started in 2001-02 and all district Management Informatics System (MIS) coordinators work under the MIS deputy manager who is also a contractual employee and is working since 2009. They demanded that the government should implement the “equal work equal pay” rule to all the employees of under the SSA.
Recently, the Education Department, Punjab, had deputed regular teachers as district MIS coordinators in 22 districts under SSA. A major duty assigned to these teachers ondeputation is preparing the annual SSA budget, maintaining web portals of the state government and responsibility of U-Dise Survey (National-level survey for the annual budget plan of SSA conducted by Punjab).
The U-Dise survey includes data entry and report generation on sophisticated computer software.
Some say that these duties should be performed by highly skilled computer professionals because the job needs in-depth knowledge of computer and knowing mere basics of computer are not enough. But the Education Department has deputed agriculture (1), primary JBT teachers (9), math, science and Punjabi teacher (one each) for the computer-oriented technical post, they said.
The department did not bother to look at their eligibility and qualification for these posts and rather favoured teachers with political approach, they alleged. They further said these deputed teachers had not been taught computer at their schools even for a single day but were made component in-charge at the district level for the post of MIS district coordinator.
Interestingly, 142 block MIS have been recruited under the SSA. The minimum eligibility for the recruitment of these block MIS coordinators is three year degree in computer.
“It is ridiculous that the department has deputed JBT and agriculture teachers who do not have certified computer qualification. They are directing graduate and postgraduate computer professionals,” a teacher said.
Moreover, in spite of the RTE Act, these teachers are given non-teaching assignments in district offices and do not meet even the minimum requirement for this technical post, he claimed.
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