To
Mrs.Kalvakuntla
Kavitha,
M.P.
Nizamabad
parliament Constituency,
Camp:
JAGTIAL
A note on
Present Education
System:
Make Radical Changes
to Impart Free and Compulsory Education to Needy
.
From:
Ch.V.Prabhakar
Rao
Senior
Journalist
President,
Telangana
Recognised Schools Managements Association
H.No.
6-5-203,Brahmanwada,
JAGTIAL
505327 T.S .
Cell:
93915 33339; 9492710508
Email:
chvprabhakarrao@gmail.com
Date:
29-10-2014
Date: 29-10-2014
To
Mrs.Kalvakuntla
Kavitha,
M.P.
Nizamabad
parliament Constituency,
Camp:
Jagtial
Respected
Madam,
I
would like to submit few lines for your kind consideration on our present
education system and the changes, what shall be brought immediately for
qualitative and skillful education in secondary education level, to keep pace
with the changing times.
Present
Education System Needs Radical Changes To Impart Free And Compulsory Education
To Needy.
In
today`s global scenario every parent running to English medim schools to face
the neck to neck competition of the tomorrow`s life.
But
most of the developed countries in the world impart primary education in their
native and mother tongue. All most all European and south East Asian developed
countries fallows the same.
Only
we, common wealth countries, are very much interested in English language and
try pose as perfect in English. Many English media children are unable to
communicate in English, as they cannot express their views and opinions in
English.
Take
the example of the north Indian state students prefer Hindi in all competitive
exams and oppose English, even in Civil`s exams.
Almost
all educationists prefer primary education shall be taught in the child`s
mother tongue. Anyhow, let the arguments be aside and let us focus light on the
today`s issues.
LET`S
KEEP OUR FOOT PRINTS.
Every
new government plans to leave their foot prints in the governance and socio-economic
welfare schemes. In this global scenario human resource are playing most vital
role in the development of any nation or state or region.
Whether
this may coincidence or anything other, but today the central and state have
two new governments, having complete different attitudes in their outlook from
the previous governments.
After
60 years of hardship and movements Telangana region has got separated from A.P.
state and just started blooming. The most urgently expected reforms in the
governance are education system and job recruitment process apart from speedy
economical development.
RECOGNISE AS
INDUSTRY:
Recognise the
Educational institutions as small Industry, so the institutions may get bank
loans and other benefits, as the other small industries are getting from the
government. This may lessen the burden on the parent as well as it gives job
security to the teachers in private schools.
ALL
SCHEMES IN ONE SCHOOL
The
TRS government, under dynamic leadership of Kalvakuntla Chandhra Shekar Rao,
promised K.G to P.G education free and compulsory to all the Telangana
students. Free and compulsory education at all stages can be made true by
making some radical changes in the present system.
The
previous Congress lead UPA-2 government spent lot money to make shuffle in the
national education system through Rajiv Gandhi Vidya Mission and Rastriya
Uchchathar Vidya Mission and many more. But not reached their goals.
At
present all the intellectuals and educationists are advocating and pressing for
the good physical facilities in schools and colleges to harness good quality
education. Off course, at some extent the basic physical facilities must be
provided to continue the learning process in peaceful and healthy conditions.
We
are forgetting the most important aspect of the learning process is not only
the basic physical facilities but the sincere and devoted human personnel. In
the last decade thousands of schools opened in every state. No government has
followed the student and teacher ratio in opening new school to satisfy their
political interests. At the same time all the politicians, including opposition
party leaders too shared this unwanted undesired new school openings and sanction
new class room buildings to satisfy their political needs of their areas.
In
the same period the same government closed many school in rural areas due to
lack of students in those school or they merged with nearby old schools. Still
in every June the politicians and local leaders voice for opening new schools
and upgrading present primary schools to
upper primary school or upper primary school to high school, without bothering
about the economical strength of the of
the schools and their feeding area schools strength.
And
another unsolved and unsolvable problem is government teacher`s cadre and their
service rules. The same government recruits the teachers in the same department
with different schemes and different names and styles, like model school
teachers, residential school teachers, SC, BC, ST residential school teachers and
under many other new names and schemes.
COMBINE
ALL PROGRAMMES INTO ONE:
All
the teachers have to work for the same area students under the same government
and same education department. But their working rules and pay scales are
different and they are not answerable to local government or any other local
inspecting authority.
There
are many separate residential schools for all recognized downtrodden class
people apart from general school to impart quality education in every nook and
corner of every district, in every state. But most of the schools do not have
enough strength or they are not attracting students, even though they are
located in their vicinity.
Many
tribal schools located in the deep forests are also not creating confidence in
the local tribal. No government officer or the local politician takes any
interest in attracting students and creating confidence in the parents.
Simply
they need funds to construct the new buildings in that school.
Now
look at Government hostels of various departments. Almost every Mandal
headquarter of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh state have at least one Hostel with
minimum intake of 100 students of high
school level. Many mandals have girls
hostel too.
But
in no hostel we can find more than 50 students taking admission. Every district
collector in their review meeting warns the hostel wardens to fill the seats,
but in vein. Even in the divisional head quarters hostel also not able to
satisfy the poor and downtrodden students.
NEED
OF COMMON SERVICE RULES:
Before
going to announce any new education policy or changes in the existing policies,
the government should review the present ground level situation than going with
their brain child policies.
The
education department has many internal issues to get solved before going to
implement any other new policy in the states. In these two new states the most
important and burning problem of teacher s of different cadre must be unified,
and bring under one cadre by merging government, Panchayat Raj, Gurukul,
Residential Society and many other scheme teachers by making Common Service
Rules to all the teaching community in the Telangana government with conscience
of all the Teacher Unions of the state, which is now in Supreme Court for a
decade.
Due to this cadre differences the governments
may not able to give promotions to the teachers into higher level posts like,
inspecting officers, district officer and other posts. This problem prevails
since 2000, but no one is serious on this issue and no one thinks about the
total system and what it has lost in the last 15 years.
There
are about 1150 Mandal educational officers posts in the both the state. Out of
the total MEO posts and Divisional Educational Officers posts, 80% of them with
in- charges or with additional charge officers, who are unable to stream line
the system.. The in-charge is none other than a senior teacher or a Diet College lecturer and he can be
transferred to any school or college at
any movement, if the teachers` unions think that the in-charge MEO or Dy.E.O. is
not in their good looks. In this position how can a in-charge officer can take any action on any teacher, either,
he/she was his co-teacher in yesterdays or may be the tomorrow`s co-teacher.
MAINTAIN
TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:
Now
the problem of government schools are attracting students and building
confidence in village people. In many villages there is no need to open new
schools or appoint new teachers. In every town of every district have number of
school without sufficient required strength but have good number of qualified
teachers. They should be rationally
transferred and the schools should be merged accordingly, to import quality
education.
Almost
all town schools are running because of rules without required minimum number
of students. This is only because rules formulated to benefit some teachers and
their leaders, but not in the welfare of the students.
The
schools are classified A,B, C and D grades according to the urbanization
,transport and other facilities available in that particular village or town. The
`A `grade schools have full strength of teachers, irrespective of the student
–teacher ratio.
The
C and D grade schools always need teachers as per teacher-student ratio.
Generally almost all the C and D grade schools only have the maximum strength,
because these schools are far away from towns and they do not have private
schools in their vicinity to send the students for good education.
Not
only for those, that the students of these schools are unable to go out of the
village as the most of the parents of these schools are Sc`s, St`s and other
backward classes and economically backward classes; they cannot afford private
education.
At
the same time the village people may not ready to send their girl children to
other far away villages, after attaining at the age of 12 or 13, that is after
completing class 6th and 7th.This is one of the main
reasons in girl child dropout ratio.
HIGH
EXPECTATIONS FROM ZERO LEVEL STUDENTS:
Where
there is no basic educational skill in students, there we are striving for
extra and co-curricular activity. We are opening new residential and model
school for the rural weaker section to provide corporate level education at the
cost of common student of the same area. The schools are not imparting 3Rs in
their primary level education?
At this stage the teacher community
blames the government planning of and promoting the teachers for than school
work duties and parents blame the teachers for their poor attendance and
performance in schools.
How
far it is right? Who is right is not the question to discuss at this point. We
have to look into the issue to how better we can solve the dropouts and impart
good and qualitative education to all.
To bring the entire drop out students into the
fold of education, we have to make some radical changes in our present
education department and in its rules.
First,
the government shall organize a round table meeting on this issue with
teacher`s union leaders to make up their mind to forego any benefits to achieve
the main goal, other than monetary benefits.
BRING
THE NEW EDUCATION ACT.
The
government has to formulate special education act for Telangana state to
provide 100 per cent free and compulsory education to all the eligible children
in the state, without caste and creed. The model schools concept is against the
RTE, which prescribes common school system, where all the students should be
given same education, so all such schools shall converted into common schools.
CHANGE
OUR EDUCATION ACTS AND RULES.
1.
All types of the schools must be
brought under one umbrella, by merging the different department’s controlled
residential schools and their staff.
2.
All the teacher of the state should
have the same Service Rules. Private school teachers shall treated at par with
government teachers in all respects, other than monitory benefits.
3. No child shall
be allowed to travel more than five (5) or ten (10) K.M. from their home to
school, unless the child did not get admission in that locality. This rule
shall be implemented strictly to strengthen the government school and control
the unhealthy competition among private school. At present by the influence of
the corporate schools the schools bus plying radius increased from 15 K.M to 30
K.M. This should be minimized to less than 10 K.M.
4. The
educationists, teachers’ union leaders and private school management leaders
shall be taken into confidence and made part of the Act and Rule framing
committee.
5. All the
private school teachers must be given same in service trainings as par
with government teachers to impart quality education.
6. All the
Economically Backward Students shall be
given all the facilities to the private school students, like Free Books,
Uniforms etc.,
7.
If the children studies in the nearby
school, they save much of time on travelling and find time for other activities,
like sports & game.
8.
Every village shall provide with one
primary school with all basic amenities, where there is no school at present.
9.
Every Upper Primary
school should have at least two or three feeding Primary schools in its
vicinity of one Kilometer radius.
10. Every
High school should have with in 3 K.M. with three or four feeding Upper Primary
Schools.
11. No
new school shall be permitted within the radius of three (3) K.M of any
existing High School, unless the existing High School`s strength exceeds the
maximum capacity of the school, subject to available basic amenities, staff,
building and like others.
12. Every
village head, public representatives of the village and other social
organizations such as village youth and Mahila organizations shall made part of
school development committees.
TEACHERS RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS.
13. Every teacher,
who is working in the school, shall reside within the two (2) or three (3)
K.M. Radius of the school. If, a teacher
is available in the village, he will impress the villagers and students and
builds confidence in them. Hence the strength of the school will increase.
14. Most of the teachers stay away to the schools and travel
from a far away distance. To save the travel time of the teachers, the government
should make such a plan that every school building means including the
residential accommodation to all the staff members of the school, accordingly
15. This may not be a residential school but to
avoid residential problems in rural villages. The most effective argument of
the teachers` unions for not staying any teacher in the villages, because of
residential accommodation is not available to stay any teacher in the villages.
16.
Now
the government paying 8 to 12 percent House Rent Allowance to all the eligible
teachers. If, government itself provides residential accommodation, the
government need not pay any HRA benefits to the teacher. At present in a lay
way calculation, a newly appointed teacher may get monthly HRA of Rs.1500 and
above, then how much the government is paying to its senior teachers? The HRA saved by the government can help to
build more accommodation in new areas
17. The
teachers, who are working in Agency Area and in far away remote villages, can
be given a special allowance for that purpose.
18.
Every
four (4) to five (5) high schools shall have a complex of Junior college; with
vocational courses to cater the needs of the rural area, like electric pump
repairs, house wiring, tractor mechanism, like so\
19. Every
five (5) to six (6) high schools shall have a Degree collage complex with
Science Arts and vocational and other job oriented courses, like air condition
maintenance, computer aided engineering designing, computer aided accountancy, computers
repair, land survey, and other course.
20. Every Mandal head quarter shall
have at least one I.T I institute, to cater the needs of the rural area, like
electric pump repairs, house wiring, tractor and auto mechanism, plumber, fitter and like so.
21. Provide
healthy and nutritious food to all school students at least 2 times a day, i.e.
afternoon and evening, to keep the students in the schools and healthy.
22. Co-ordinate
the mid-day meals program with local Swashakti Mahila groups and school management
or development committees.
23. Tamilnadu
government practically providing meals to all the needy at the cost of
Rs.5/-and Curd rice for Rs.3/-.Almost the same thing is being implemented by the
GHMC in twin cities with the help of ISKON. The same shall be implemented in
schools also, with the help of other philanthropic organization.
INVOLVE NRIS IN CREATING
INFRUSSTRUCTURE.
24. We shall allow
and encourage the interested philanthropists and organizations to share the
responsibility of creating basic infrastructure in schools. If the government
announces a clear and open policy on this, there may be many philanthropists
and organizations to come forward to create infrastructure in schools.
25. There are many
educated young people employed in India and abroad in high levels of income. If
the government chalks out a clear and transparent programme to involve them in
creating infrastructure and other activities in their native villages and their
old schools.
26. The government
can name the school or a part of building or class room in the memory of the
philanthropist’s interested persons, when they bear the cost of the project.
CONTROL MUSHROOMING OF THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS:
1.
No society shall allow opening more
than one school in the state.
2.
Government shall not given permission
to any organization to start chain of school, unless the organization is
running their schools for downtrodden students without school fee, that mean it
shall give total free education and not collecting any fee from the student,
other than any benefit from the government, if available.
3.
No private school is allowed to open
in the vicinity of any government school, unless the strength of the school is
more than the accommodation of the existing school and the inspecting officer
notifies for a new school to be opened by any non profit oriented organization,
i.e. Government or private.
4.
The government shall permit the
private schools only in remote areas and slum areas of the urban and
metropolitan cities,
where the government is not reaching the needs of the local children.
5.
Private school teacher’s service
shall be taken into account while recruiting the government posts.
6.
The private school fee regulatory
committee of every district shall meet regularly and fix the fee structure of
the schools in every March for the next academic year.
7.
The existing or newly opened private
schools shall not bring the students from the faraway places. The private
school bus movement shall be restricted to five (5) to ten (10) K.M from the school location.
8.
Every private school management should
implement the new education Rules of RTE, irrespective of their standards and
locality.
9. All the
teachers of the private schools shall enroll their names in the District
Employment Office, so they can be given job security and other benefits in the private
schools and it gives a chance to the inspecting officer to control and maintain
quality education in the private schools too.
10. Every private
school shall make undertaking to the government to build their own building
within 10 years of its establishment. For this purpose the government shall
provide the land to the private school, where it is available. If the
government land is not available in that locality, the government shall provide
bank guarantee to purchase the required land for the school building.
THIS IS NOT THE END:
These are may be only one man`s ideas or opinion.
If the government is of so serious about qualitative education to all the
eligible children, free and compulsory, it shall immediately take steps at war
foot level.
This academic year begins. Now we cannot make
anything. To avoid the same situation in the next academic year, we have to
plan from the day one. Free college education is not a serious problem, because
only 25% of the primary school students are coming to higher education.
In college level almost all private colleges are
getting reimbursement of fee paid by all the students. The tuition fee reimbursement
scheme to students in colleges, especially in engineering colleges, only
increasing the intake of the colleges but not improving the quality. The
students are running for engineering colleges, due to non availability of
quality education at graduation level. The government degree colleges shall be
started in rural areas to promote job oriented courses at graduation level
studies.
There are many senior educationists and
philanthropists in our Telangana, who strived for separate statehood, are ready
to share their thoughts and services in molding “Bangaru Telangana” with high standard and
qualitative educational institutions to the pride of our state. For all these
activities finance is not only the hindrance, but the clear WILL is necessary
and we have to keep confidence in us to implement some hard rules to reach our
goals at an early stage, some organizations, some political and other groups
may oppose our plans. With clear mind and will we implement new plans, the
success only speaks about us.
Hope your goodness may look into these serious issues.
Thanking You.
Yours
Sincerely.
Ch.V.Prabhakar
Rao
Senior
Journalist.
From:
President,
Telangana Recognised Schools Managements
Association
H.No. 6-5-203,Brahmanwada,
JAGTIAL 505327
T.S .
Cell: 93915 33339; 9492710508
Email: chvprabhakarrao@gmail.com
To
Mrs.Kalvakuntla
Kavitha,
M.P.
Nizamabad
parliament Constituency,
Camp:
JAGTIAL
A note on
Present Education
System:
Make Radical Changes
to Impart Free and Compulsory Education to Needy
.
From:
Ch.V.Prabhakar
Rao
Senior
Journalist
President,
Telangana
Recognised Schools Managements Association
H.No.
6-5-203,Brahmanwada,
JAGTIAL
505327 T.S .
Cell:
93915 33339; 9492710508
Email:
chvprabhakarrao@gmail.com
Date:
29-10-2014
Date: 29-10-2014
To
Mrs.Kalvakuntla
Kavitha,
M.P.
Nizamabad
parliament Constituency,
Camp:
Jagtial
Respected
Madam,
I
would like to submit few lines for your kind consideration on our present
education system and the changes, what shall be brought immediately for
qualitative and skillful education in secondary education level, to keep pace
with the changing times.
Present
Education System Needs Radical Changes To Impart Free And Compulsory Education
To Needy.
In
today`s global scenario every parent running to English medim schools to face
the neck to neck competition of the tomorrow`s life.
But
most of the developed countries in the world impart primary education in their
native and mother tongue. All most all European and south East Asian developed
countries fallows the same.
Only
we, common wealth countries, are very much interested in English language and
try pose as perfect in English. Many English media children are unable to
communicate in English, as they cannot express their views and opinions in
English.
Take
the example of the north Indian state students prefer Hindi in all competitive
exams and oppose English, even in Civil`s exams.
Almost
all educationists prefer primary education shall be taught in the child`s
mother tongue. Anyhow, let the arguments be aside and let us focus light on the
today`s issues.
LET`S
KEEP OUR FOOT PRINTS.
Every
new government plans to leave their foot prints in the governance and socio-economic
welfare schemes. In this global scenario human resource are playing most vital
role in the development of any nation or state or region.
Whether
this may coincidence or anything other, but today the central and state have
two new governments, having complete different attitudes in their outlook from
the previous governments.
After
60 years of hardship and movements Telangana region has got separated from A.P.
state and just started blooming. The most urgently expected reforms in the
governance are education system and job recruitment process apart from speedy
economical development.
RECOGNISE AS
INDUSTRY:
Recognise the
Educational institutions as small Industry, so the institutions may get bank
loans and other benefits, as the other small industries are getting from the
government. This may lessen the burden on the parent as well as it gives job
security to the teachers in private schools.
ALL
SCHEMES IN ONE SCHOOL
The
TRS government, under dynamic leadership of Kalvakuntla Chandhra Shekar Rao,
promised K.G to P.G education free and compulsory to all the Telangana
students. Free and compulsory education at all stages can be made true by
making some radical changes in the present system.
The
previous Congress lead UPA-2 government spent lot money to make shuffle in the
national education system through Rajiv Gandhi Vidya Mission and Rastriya
Uchchathar Vidya Mission and many more. But not reached their goals.
At
present all the intellectuals and educationists are advocating and pressing for
the good physical facilities in schools and colleges to harness good quality
education. Off course, at some extent the basic physical facilities must be
provided to continue the learning process in peaceful and healthy conditions.
We
are forgetting the most important aspect of the learning process is not only
the basic physical facilities but the sincere and devoted human personnel. In
the last decade thousands of schools opened in every state. No government has
followed the student and teacher ratio in opening new school to satisfy their
political interests. At the same time all the politicians, including opposition
party leaders too shared this unwanted undesired new school openings and sanction
new class room buildings to satisfy their political needs of their areas.
In
the same period the same government closed many school in rural areas due to
lack of students in those school or they merged with nearby old schools. Still
in every June the politicians and local leaders voice for opening new schools
and upgrading present primary schools to
upper primary school or upper primary school to high school, without bothering
about the economical strength of the of
the schools and their feeding area schools strength.
And
another unsolved and unsolvable problem is government teacher`s cadre and their
service rules. The same government recruits the teachers in the same department
with different schemes and different names and styles, like model school
teachers, residential school teachers, SC, BC, ST residential school teachers and
under many other new names and schemes.
COMBINE
ALL PROGRAMMES INTO ONE:
All
the teachers have to work for the same area students under the same government
and same education department. But their working rules and pay scales are
different and they are not answerable to local government or any other local
inspecting authority.
There
are many separate residential schools for all recognized downtrodden class
people apart from general school to impart quality education in every nook and
corner of every district, in every state. But most of the schools do not have
enough strength or they are not attracting students, even though they are
located in their vicinity.
Many
tribal schools located in the deep forests are also not creating confidence in
the local tribal. No government officer or the local politician takes any
interest in attracting students and creating confidence in the parents.
Simply
they need funds to construct the new buildings in that school.
Now
look at Government hostels of various departments. Almost every Mandal
headquarter of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh state have at least one Hostel with
minimum intake of 100 students of high
school level. Many mandals have girls
hostel too.
But
in no hostel we can find more than 50 students taking admission. Every district
collector in their review meeting warns the hostel wardens to fill the seats,
but in vein. Even in the divisional head quarters hostel also not able to
satisfy the poor and downtrodden students.
NEED
OF COMMON SERVICE RULES:
Before
going to announce any new education policy or changes in the existing policies,
the government should review the present ground level situation than going with
their brain child policies.
The
education department has many internal issues to get solved before going to
implement any other new policy in the states. In these two new states the most
important and burning problem of teacher s of different cadre must be unified,
and bring under one cadre by merging government, Panchayat Raj, Gurukul,
Residential Society and many other scheme teachers by making Common Service
Rules to all the teaching community in the Telangana government with conscience
of all the Teacher Unions of the state, which is now in Supreme Court for a
decade.
Due to this cadre differences the governments
may not able to give promotions to the teachers into higher level posts like,
inspecting officers, district officer and other posts. This problem prevails
since 2000, but no one is serious on this issue and no one thinks about the
total system and what it has lost in the last 15 years.
There
are about 1150 Mandal educational officers posts in the both the state. Out of
the total MEO posts and Divisional Educational Officers posts, 80% of them with
in- charges or with additional charge officers, who are unable to stream line
the system.. The in-charge is none other than a senior teacher or a Diet College lecturer and he can be
transferred to any school or college at
any movement, if the teachers` unions think that the in-charge MEO or Dy.E.O. is
not in their good looks. In this position how can a in-charge officer can take any action on any teacher, either,
he/she was his co-teacher in yesterdays or may be the tomorrow`s co-teacher.
MAINTAIN
TEACHER STUDENT RATIO:
Now
the problem of government schools are attracting students and building
confidence in village people. In many villages there is no need to open new
schools or appoint new teachers. In every town of every district have number of
school without sufficient required strength but have good number of qualified
teachers. They should be rationally
transferred and the schools should be merged accordingly, to import quality
education.
Almost
all town schools are running because of rules without required minimum number
of students. This is only because rules formulated to benefit some teachers and
their leaders, but not in the welfare of the students.
The
schools are classified A,B, C and D grades according to the urbanization
,transport and other facilities available in that particular village or town. The
`A `grade schools have full strength of teachers, irrespective of the student
–teacher ratio.
The
C and D grade schools always need teachers as per teacher-student ratio.
Generally almost all the C and D grade schools only have the maximum strength,
because these schools are far away from towns and they do not have private
schools in their vicinity to send the students for good education.
Not
only for those, that the students of these schools are unable to go out of the
village as the most of the parents of these schools are Sc`s, St`s and other
backward classes and economically backward classes; they cannot afford private
education.
At
the same time the village people may not ready to send their girl children to
other far away villages, after attaining at the age of 12 or 13, that is after
completing class 6th and 7th.This is one of the main
reasons in girl child dropout ratio.
HIGH
EXPECTATIONS FROM ZERO LEVEL STUDENTS:
Where
there is no basic educational skill in students, there we are striving for
extra and co-curricular activity. We are opening new residential and model
school for the rural weaker section to provide corporate level education at the
cost of common student of the same area. The schools are not imparting 3Rs in
their primary level education?
At this stage the teacher community
blames the government planning of and promoting the teachers for than school
work duties and parents blame the teachers for their poor attendance and
performance in schools.
How
far it is right? Who is right is not the question to discuss at this point. We
have to look into the issue to how better we can solve the dropouts and impart
good and qualitative education to all.
To bring the entire drop out students into the
fold of education, we have to make some radical changes in our present
education department and in its rules.
First,
the government shall organize a round table meeting on this issue with
teacher`s union leaders to make up their mind to forego any benefits to achieve
the main goal, other than monetary benefits.
BRING
THE NEW EDUCATION ACT.
The
government has to formulate special education act for Telangana state to
provide 100 per cent free and compulsory education to all the eligible children
in the state, without caste and creed. The model schools concept is against the
RTE, which prescribes common school system, where all the students should be
given same education, so all such schools shall converted into common schools.
CHANGE
OUR EDUCATION ACTS AND RULES.
1.
All types of the schools must be
brought under one umbrella, by merging the different department’s controlled
residential schools and their staff.
2.
All the teacher of the state should
have the same Service Rules. Private school teachers shall treated at par with
government teachers in all respects, other than monitory benefits.
3. No child shall
be allowed to travel more than five (5) or ten (10) K.M. from their home to
school, unless the child did not get admission in that locality. This rule
shall be implemented strictly to strengthen the government school and control
the unhealthy competition among private school. At present by the influence of
the corporate schools the schools bus plying radius increased from 15 K.M to 30
K.M. This should be minimized to less than 10 K.M.
4. The
educationists, teachers’ union leaders and private school management leaders
shall be taken into confidence and made part of the Act and Rule framing
committee.
5. All the
private school teachers must be given same in service trainings as par
with government teachers to impart quality education.
6. All the
Economically Backward Students shall be
given all the facilities to the private school students, like Free Books,
Uniforms etc.,
7.
If the children studies in the nearby
school, they save much of time on travelling and find time for other activities,
like sports & game.
8.
Every village shall provide with one
primary school with all basic amenities, where there is no school at present.
9.
Every Upper Primary
school should have at least two or three feeding Primary schools in its
vicinity of one Kilometer radius.
10. Every
High school should have with in 3 K.M. with three or four feeding Upper Primary
Schools.
11. No
new school shall be permitted within the radius of three (3) K.M of any
existing High School, unless the existing High School`s strength exceeds the
maximum capacity of the school, subject to available basic amenities, staff,
building and like others.
12. Every
village head, public representatives of the village and other social
organizations such as village youth and Mahila organizations shall made part of
school development committees.
TEACHERS RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS.
13. Every teacher,
who is working in the school, shall reside within the two (2) or three (3)
K.M. Radius of the school. If, a teacher
is available in the village, he will impress the villagers and students and
builds confidence in them. Hence the strength of the school will increase.
14. Most of the teachers stay away to the schools and travel
from a far away distance. To save the travel time of the teachers, the government
should make such a plan that every school building means including the
residential accommodation to all the staff members of the school, accordingly
15. This may not be a residential school but to
avoid residential problems in rural villages. The most effective argument of
the teachers` unions for not staying any teacher in the villages, because of
residential accommodation is not available to stay any teacher in the villages.
16.
Now
the government paying 8 to 12 percent House Rent Allowance to all the eligible
teachers. If, government itself provides residential accommodation, the
government need not pay any HRA benefits to the teacher. At present in a lay
way calculation, a newly appointed teacher may get monthly HRA of Rs.1500 and
above, then how much the government is paying to its senior teachers? The HRA saved by the government can help to
build more accommodation in new areas
17. The
teachers, who are working in Agency Area and in far away remote villages, can
be given a special allowance for that purpose.
18.
Every
four (4) to five (5) high schools shall have a complex of Junior college; with
vocational courses to cater the needs of the rural area, like electric pump
repairs, house wiring, tractor mechanism, like so\
19. Every
five (5) to six (6) high schools shall have a Degree collage complex with
Science Arts and vocational and other job oriented courses, like air condition
maintenance, computer aided engineering designing, computer aided accountancy, computers
repair, land survey, and other course.
20. Every Mandal head quarter shall
have at least one I.T I institute, to cater the needs of the rural area, like
electric pump repairs, house wiring, tractor and auto mechanism, plumber, fitter and like so.
21. Provide
healthy and nutritious food to all school students at least 2 times a day, i.e.
afternoon and evening, to keep the students in the schools and healthy.
22. Co-ordinate
the mid-day meals program with local Swashakti Mahila groups and school management
or development committees.
23. Tamilnadu
government practically providing meals to all the needy at the cost of
Rs.5/-and Curd rice for Rs.3/-.Almost the same thing is being implemented by the
GHMC in twin cities with the help of ISKON. The same shall be implemented in
schools also, with the help of other philanthropic organization.
INVOLVE NRIS IN CREATING
INFRUSSTRUCTURE.
24. We shall allow
and encourage the interested philanthropists and organizations to share the
responsibility of creating basic infrastructure in schools. If the government
announces a clear and open policy on this, there may be many philanthropists
and organizations to come forward to create infrastructure in schools.
25. There are many
educated young people employed in India and abroad in high levels of income. If
the government chalks out a clear and transparent programme to involve them in
creating infrastructure and other activities in their native villages and their
old schools.
26. The government
can name the school or a part of building or class room in the memory of the
philanthropist’s interested persons, when they bear the cost of the project.
CONTROL MUSHROOMING OF THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS:
1.
No society shall allow opening more
than one school in the state.
2.
Government shall not given permission
to any organization to start chain of school, unless the organization is
running their schools for downtrodden students without school fee, that mean it
shall give total free education and not collecting any fee from the student,
other than any benefit from the government, if available.
3.
No private school is allowed to open
in the vicinity of any government school, unless the strength of the school is
more than the accommodation of the existing school and the inspecting officer
notifies for a new school to be opened by any non profit oriented organization,
i.e. Government or private.
4.
The government shall permit the
private schools only in remote areas and slum areas of the urban and
metropolitan cities,
where the government is not reaching the needs of the local children.
5.
Private school teacher’s service
shall be taken into account while recruiting the government posts.
6.
The private school fee regulatory
committee of every district shall meet regularly and fix the fee structure of
the schools in every March for the next academic year.
7.
The existing or newly opened private
schools shall not bring the students from the faraway places. The private
school bus movement shall be restricted to five (5) to ten (10) K.M from the school location.
8.
Every private school management should
implement the new education Rules of RTE, irrespective of their standards and
locality.
9. All the
teachers of the private schools shall enroll their names in the District
Employment Office, so they can be given job security and other benefits in the private
schools and it gives a chance to the inspecting officer to control and maintain
quality education in the private schools too.
10. Every private
school shall make undertaking to the government to build their own building
within 10 years of its establishment. For this purpose the government shall
provide the land to the private school, where it is available. If the
government land is not available in that locality, the government shall provide
bank guarantee to purchase the required land for the school building.
THIS IS NOT THE END:
These are may be only one man`s ideas or opinion.
If the government is of so serious about qualitative education to all the
eligible children, free and compulsory, it shall immediately take steps at war
foot level.
This academic year begins. Now we cannot make
anything. To avoid the same situation in the next academic year, we have to
plan from the day one. Free college education is not a serious problem, because
only 25% of the primary school students are coming to higher education.
In college level almost all private colleges are
getting reimbursement of fee paid by all the students. The tuition fee reimbursement
scheme to students in colleges, especially in engineering colleges, only
increasing the intake of the colleges but not improving the quality. The
students are running for engineering colleges, due to non availability of
quality education at graduation level. The government degree colleges shall be
started in rural areas to promote job oriented courses at graduation level
studies.
There are many senior educationists and
philanthropists in our Telangana, who strived for separate statehood, are ready
to share their thoughts and services in molding “Bangaru Telangana” with high standard and
qualitative educational institutions to the pride of our state. For all these
activities finance is not only the hindrance, but the clear WILL is necessary
and we have to keep confidence in us to implement some hard rules to reach our
goals at an early stage, some organizations, some political and other groups
may oppose our plans. With clear mind and will we implement new plans, the
success only speaks about us.
Hope your goodness may look into these serious issues.
Thanking You.
Yours
Sincerely.
Ch.V.Prabhakar
Rao
Senior
Journalist.
From:
President,
Telangana Recognised Schools Managements
Association
H.No. 6-5-203,Brahmanwada,
JAGTIAL 505327
T.S .
Cell: 93915 33339; 9492710508
Email: chvprabhakarrao@gmail.com
