Team Herald
PANJIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that regular teachers will be sanctioned to school having the required student-teachers ratio and if the enrolment of students is less then teaching staff will be appointed on contract basis.
Reacting to the demand made by the Goa School Managements’ Association to appoint teachers on regular basis in aided-schools, Sawant said, “Teacher is sanctioned on regular basis considering the students ratio in the school. If the number of students is less by four or five, then the teacher in given on contract basis. When the school is eligible with the required strength of students then the teacher will be appointed on regular basis. If we appoint a teacher in the school having less of number of students and if the number of students further drop in the next academic year then the school will not be eligible for the appointment of a full-time teacher.”
Only schools eligible with the required students ration will be given teacher on regular basis and if the number if students is less then the contract teachers will be appointed in that school.
The Chief Minister clarified that the Bal Rath scheme will continue and urged the school managements to utilise the maintenance grants for the propose it was released and not to divert it. The government is working on replacing the Bal Rath buses which are old, he added.
The government has hiked the Bal Rath grants from Rs 3.75 lakh to Rs 4.25 lakh to pay salary of drivers and attendants/cleaners and fuel. The school managements can replace the present buses but procuring of new buses will not be allowed now, Sawant said.
Full-time teachers appointed
under political favour: GSMA
PANJIM: The Goa School Managements' Association (GSMA) action committee convenor Prashant Naik on Wednesday said that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had lied to the people of Goa over the appointment of regular teachers.
Naik claimed that he can produce hundreds of examples where the schools are sanctioned contractual posts even when they are eligible for full-time regular posts of teachers and subordinate staff as they fulfill the required the criteria prescribed in the Goa education rules.
He also alleged that full-time teachers are
appointed either under political favour or if one is politically connected.
“Let the CM give us date and time to come with the details of this and we will be more than willing to provide him with the required data,” Naik said.
With regards to the Bal Rath issue, Naik stated that the Director of Education Shailesh Zingde is on record where he said that the schools have to procure the buses either through CSR or through their own funds and the directorate of education will only continue giving salaries of the driver and attendant and grant for diesel. Naik has requested the Chief Minister to give them an early appointment so the issue of Bal Rath and appointments
can be sorted out.