CHANDIGARH: The Punjab education department has urged the Union ministry of human resource development (HRD) to give “another chance” to over 13,000 of its untrained primary government schoolteachers who did not enroll in a mandatory six-month bridge course.
The state department has urged the HRD ministry to allow the teachers to enroll themselves in the ‘professional development programme for elementary teachers’ (PDPET).
The ministry had made it mandatory for untrained teachers to be professionally qualified before April 1, 2019, by studying the course. It had said that those who failed the test were not to be allowed to continue in service. Of the total 15,906 untrained teachers working in government schools, 13,207 did not enroll for the course, despite repeated instructions issued by the education department.
As the number of teachers who did not opt for the course is large, the department has asked the ministry to give them another chance.
Under pressure from teachers’ bodies, the department wrote three letters to the Union ministry in the past too, seeking exemption for teachers, but its requests were turned down. The ministry had also not accepted the state government’s request to impart training to teachers at their own level through district institutes of education and training (DIET).
Punjab director of public instructions (elementary) Inderjeet Singh said the department had not taken any decision and was waiting for a response from the Union ministry. “The department is in favour of giving another chance to teachers,” said Inderjeet Singh.
State council of educational research and training (SCERT), Punjab, on December 27 had issued an order asking all untrained teachers appointed after September 3, 2001, to enroll for the course.
News Source : Times of india
The state department has urged the HRD ministry to allow the teachers to enroll themselves in the ‘professional development programme for elementary teachers’ (PDPET).
The ministry had made it mandatory for untrained teachers to be professionally qualified before April 1, 2019, by studying the course. It had said that those who failed the test were not to be allowed to continue in service. Of the total 15,906 untrained teachers working in government schools, 13,207 did not enroll for the course, despite repeated instructions issued by the education department.
As the number of teachers who did not opt for the course is large, the department has asked the ministry to give them another chance.
Under pressure from teachers’ bodies, the department wrote three letters to the Union ministry in the past too, seeking exemption for teachers, but its requests were turned down. The ministry had also not accepted the state government’s request to impart training to teachers at their own level through district institutes of education and training (DIET).
Punjab director of public instructions (elementary) Inderjeet Singh said the department had not taken any decision and was waiting for a response from the Union ministry. “The department is in favour of giving another chance to teachers,” said Inderjeet Singh.
State council of educational research and training (SCERT), Punjab, on December 27 had issued an order asking all untrained teachers appointed after September 3, 2001, to enroll for the course.
News Source : Times of india
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