PANJIM: With Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) targeting March 2019 as a deadline for elementary teachers to avail training, the Goa Government has directed all the unqualified teachers to get themselves enrolled for the programme by September 15, failing which they would be dismissed from service.
“As per the directions of MHRD, all regular untrained elementary-level teachers including heads of schools teaching in government-aided, unaided, special schools have to complete the Diploma in Elementary Education (DEd) by 2019 in order to be qualified to teach at the elementary level,” reads a circular issued by the Education Department.
The untrained teachers can opt for courses through open distance learning mode on National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).
“All the unqualified in-service teachers in the govt, govt-aided, unaided, special schools, who fail to enrol on or before September 15 are liable for removal or dismissal procedure against them,” said Education Director G P Bhat
“This will be the last and final chance to acquire the required minimum professional qualification for the teachers teaching at the elementary level,” Bhat said.
. Any teacher, who does not have minimum qualification mandated under the Right to Education Act 2009, would not be allowed to continue in the service beyond April 1, 2019 and procedure for dismissal shall be initiated against such teachers,” Bhat said.
