Teachers appointment

Strategies of the districts/ state for achieving the goal of no school with single teacher in 2010-11?

Presently there are 1832 single teacher schools in the state which include 797 schools with less than 10 enrolment. The state had taken a decision to shift the children from less than 5 enrolment schools to nearby schools by providing transportation facility.  Similarly schools with less than 10 enrolment will be closed down.  Also there are 82 zero enrolment schools reflected in DISE which have been retained for the teacher to be shifted.  Through redeployment of teachers, additional post will be shifted to single teacher schools to address the problem.

State Policies and Procedures for Recruitment of Teachers?

• The state recruits teachers though Centralised Admission Cell which has been especially brought into existence to bring in transparency and quality in the recruitment process of teachers.
• District level competetive examinations are held and block level selection is provided and block level seniority is maintained for their service matters.
• The rank list of candidates for the selection of teachers post will be finalised based on the average marks obtained in PUC, DEd and Common Entrance Test examination.
• 50% posts reservation provided for female candidates and reservation policy is applicable as per the supreme court order
• A teacher once selected must work atleast 5 years in the place where he is posted.

State policy and processes for deployment and rationalization of teachers? (including steps to ensure that is it transparent, free from harassment)

The State Government has implemented the Transfer Regulation Act under which it is been made mandatory to identify excess teachers and shortfall of teacher at the school level and redeploy the teachers through counseling process providing priority within block then to district and in rare cases where ever there is excess teachers after deployment within the district, will be sent to needy districts.  This process is held during April and May of every year during which the schools remain closed and the process will be completed before the opening of schools in June.

Strategy for ensuring Subject-specific availability of teachers at Upper Primary level?

• Minimum 4 teachers provided to every UPS and with more than 100 enrolment, a DEd candidate with PUC in science is posted.
• Every school with more than 200 enrolment will get a English and an English teacher.
• Every school with more than 250 enrolment will get a Science, an English and a Hindi teacher.
• Every school with more than 280+ enrolment will get a Science, an English, a Hindi and a Physical Education teachers.
• The eighth post will be Head Master post.

Minimum Qualifications for appointment of Teachers for different levels/ categories;

PS and UPS fall under one category and all the teachers are recruited as Primary School teachers.  The minimum qualification for the recruitment of teachers is Diploma in Education.

State Policies and Procedures for Recruitment of Teachers?

School is the basic unit of organisation of a school system.There are 69273 schools in theState of which 26644 are lower primary schools, 30876 are higher primary schools and11753 are high schools.The ratio of LPS to HPS is 0.863:1 while that of HPS to HS is1 : 0.429. Access to 8th Standard of schooling is available in HPS having 1 to 8 standards

High schools with 1 to 10 standards and higher secondary schools with 1 to 12 standards.Children from 1 to 7 HPS have to get admitted to the nearby high/higher secondaryschools.Transition from 7th to 8th standard has been a persisting problem in the State.Thegap in enrollments between 7th standard of 2007-08, and 8th standard of 2008-09, is nearly 6.03 percent.This gap has reduced from 10 percent for the corresponding previous two year periods. Further, the observed gap of 6.03 percent is higher by two are more than twotimes in Koppal, Bidar, Bangalore South, Raichur, Yadagiri, and Bellary districts.Logisticsof organisation of schooling do not permit the conversion of all 1 to 7 HPS to 1 to 8 HPSas it affects the scale of management of historically evolved high schools.One of theconcerns in the Universalisation of elementary education upto the age of 14 years, 8th standard of schooling, is a significant goal of SSA. Several strategic interventions areplanned and implemented in the State to address this problem. During 2008-09, theGovernment has clearly and categorically notified its commitment to ensure 8th standardof elementary schooling to all chilren.

Teachers’ terms and service conditions;

• Teachers are selected at the block level and service seniority is maintained at the block offices for all the service matters.
• The teachers shall serve atleast 5 years in the place posted;
• He shall loose his seniority once he moves out of the jurisdiction of his service on his own demand.
• He shall be governed by the States Karnataka Civil Service Rules;

Mechanisms for redressal of grievances:

All processes related to appointment, salary, increment, leave benefits and other service matters are handled at the block level through counseling process which are highly transparent.The grievances if any are redressed at the block office and a teacher can approach higher level offices for justice and finally KAT.