Govt focussing on teachers for quality education

The government is focussing on teachers for providing quality education and is taking strong view of absentee teachers in schools run by it, secretary to union school education and literacy ministry Anil Swarup said today.
"I was aghast to learn that 25-28 per cent of teachers do not go to school but get paid handsomely. Most of them are sincere but we need to take a strong view of absentee teachers, specially in the government domain first," he told reporters on the sidelines of an ASSOCHAM programme here.
Swarup said 4,000 B-Ed colleges in the country have not furnished their affidavits and they will not be accredited by the NCERT nor will there be any punitive action against them.

An estimated 11,487 colleges had furnished their affidavits and each B-Ed college will be vetted by the third party. "But there will be no inspector raj."
There will be five star ratings for certain B-Ed colleges based on their performances and facilities, he said adding, "We don't need to regulate these colleges after their five star accreditation by National Council for Teacher Education. There will also be no usual inspection."
On the detention policy proposed by union HRD minister, Swarup said the policy is for class 5 and class 8 students and the Parliament will decide on the Detention Act. "But let me clarify none stops anybody from conducting examinations in other classes as well."

To a question about poor salary of teachers in private schools, Swarup said agreed that many of them did.