SAS Nagar, January 22
To rectify the skewed teacher:taught ratio, the Education Department has transferred all six teachers employed for just 17 students of Government Middle School (GMS) at Todar Majri village on the city's outskirts. They have been shifted to the Government High School in the neighbouring Majatri village.
The school at Todar Majri, with an
impressive building and a spacious playground, was shut about a week ago.
Twenty more middle schools with less than 20 students on rolls have been closed in different parts of the state. At least 111 middle schools with a pupil strength of less than 30 will be shut by April 1. At least 130 more schools with less than 45 students have been warned to raise their student strength or face closure.
Headmaster Kuldip Singh of the school at Majatri village said: “ Our school already has sufficient staff. The department will have to work out a permanent solution. The teachers have been transferred here only temporarily.”
A school headmaster, who did not want to be named, said it were schools located near big cities that faced the problem of a skewed teacher:taught ratio. “Official records will show that while a large number of government schools in the countryside are crying for teachers, schools on the city outskirts have surplus staff,” he said.
The GMS, Chandpur (Hoshiarpur), has three teachers and two students; GMS, Miranpur (Jalandhar), six teachers and 10 students and GMS, Tapiala (Amritsar), five teachers and 19 students.
The middle school in Bela Ramgarh in Ropar district has five teachers for 22 students. Fifteen schools in Amritsar district, 18 in Hoshiarpur, 11 in Kapurthala, seven in Ludhiana, 12 in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and two in Bathinda may be closed if they fail to take in more students.
Schools at Avaan Lakha Singh in Amritsar and Munnanwali, Loh Chhap, Auli Bhann and Guruchak Dala in Gurdaspur have been closed because there has been no enrollment.
To rectify the skewed teacher:taught ratio, the Education Department has transferred all six teachers employed for just 17 students of Government Middle School (GMS) at Todar Majri village on the city's outskirts. They have been shifted to the Government High School in the neighbouring Majatri village.
The school at Todar Majri, with an
impressive building and a spacious playground, was shut about a week ago.
Twenty more middle schools with less than 20 students on rolls have been closed in different parts of the state. At least 111 middle schools with a pupil strength of less than 30 will be shut by April 1. At least 130 more schools with less than 45 students have been warned to raise their student strength or face closure.
Headmaster Kuldip Singh of the school at Majatri village said: “ Our school already has sufficient staff. The department will have to work out a permanent solution. The teachers have been transferred here only temporarily.”
A school headmaster, who did not want to be named, said it were schools located near big cities that faced the problem of a skewed teacher:taught ratio. “Official records will show that while a large number of government schools in the countryside are crying for teachers, schools on the city outskirts have surplus staff,” he said.
The GMS, Chandpur (Hoshiarpur), has three teachers and two students; GMS, Miranpur (Jalandhar), six teachers and 10 students and GMS, Tapiala (Amritsar), five teachers and 19 students.
The middle school in Bela Ramgarh in Ropar district has five teachers for 22 students. Fifteen schools in Amritsar district, 18 in Hoshiarpur, 11 in Kapurthala, seven in Ludhiana, 12 in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and two in Bathinda may be closed if they fail to take in more students.
Schools at Avaan Lakha Singh in Amritsar and Munnanwali, Loh Chhap, Auli Bhann and Guruchak Dala in Gurdaspur have been closed because there has been no enrollment.
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