NUAPADA DM’S MOVE ON PRIMARY EDU FLAYED

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NUAPADA DM’S MOVE ON PRIMARY EDU FLAYED

Tuesday, 27 August 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar
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New Collector of Nuapada Jaykumar V has taken interest to improve the quality of primary education in the district by focusing on the improvement of attendance of children and teachers, child health and sanitation and proper distribution of hygienic MDM.
But the steps taken by the Collector to bring the changes have not gone down well with the teachers and have been criticised by the two teachers’ associations of the district.
What is creating resentment among the teachers is the system introduced by the Collector to assure regular attendance of the teachers in the school.
The Collector has instructed the District Project Coordinator (DPC) and the District Education Office (DEO) to implement a system where each school has to submit a format containing the names of the teachers and their initials, full signatures as well as thumb impressions.
There is an instruction to the teachers to put their full signatures and thumb impression in the daily attendance registers of the schools also. Further, the teachers are also required to send SMS to the DPC in case they are staying in leave.
In a joint meeting held on Sunday at Khariar, the district units of Odisha Secondary Teachers’ Association and All Utkal Primary Teachers’ Federation have decided to defy the instruction of the Collector.
“It is a violation of the Odisha Service Rules and hence, we have  to disobey the instructions of the Collector,” AUPTF secretary Purna Chandra Sahu said, adding, “We will go on mass leave on Friday next and conduct a rally in the district headquarters under the banner of ‘United Teachers Federation of Nuapada’ against the decision of the Collector.”
The Collector, on the other hand, is firm in his steps. He has instructed the DPC to implement the system and as a first step has formed five supervising committees in the district consisting of Government officials of different departments to oversee the functioning of the schools and the programmes. Each official has been entrusted with the responsibility to visit schools and report to the DPC about the status. The officials are regularly visiting the schools and conducting review meetings at the weekend and are reporting to the DPC regularly. In last one month, as many as five teachers of the district have been suspended due to the negligence in their duty, said sources.
“The instructions of the Collector to improve the system are not substantiated with any written order either by the State Government or even the Collector. What is the basis of taking thumb impression in the attendance registers? It is quite shameful and unethical. The sincerity of the teachers should not be measured through such a humiliating method,” the teachers said. 

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