02-07-2025
Teacher shortage looms as 96 schools upgraded to senior secondary level
Jaipur: School education department has upgraded 96 upper primary schools to senior secondary level without provisoning for additional number of teachers required to teach the higher grades.
School education minister Madan Dilawar also said Wednesday that orders have been issued to introduce Humanities, Science and Commerce for Class 11 in 99 Hindi medium schools.
"This is the first time orders have been issued to upgrade schools and add subjects at the start of the session," Dilawar said.
Govt school teachers pointed out the difficulty in implementing the govt order considering that govt schools are sitting on 1.25 lakh teacher vacancies.
As per an earlier order regarding the upgrade of schools, this year new admissions will be taken for class 9 and 10 and classes 11 and 12 will be started respectively in the coming sessions. Teachers said that new admissions will start but approved teaching posts will remain the same, leading to a shortage.
President of Rajasthan Primary and Secondary Teachers Association, Vipin Prakash Sharma, said, "If schools are upgraded, then it should be done with advance planning regarding the posting of teachers, because new admissions will start, and without teachers, students are the ones who will suffer."
Meanwhile, officials from the education directorate said that orders will be issued for the posting of teachers in these upgraded schools within a week.
Director of secondary education Sitaram Jat, said that after the posting of teachers in Mahatma Gandhi Govt English medium schools, many teachers from Hindi medium schools who were posted in English medium schools have now become surplus and will be redirected to these upgraded schools.
