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GUWAHATI: Assam's Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said on Wednesday said that there are adequate numbers of primary school teachers in the State and hence there is no need for recruitment of new teachers in that sector.
Addressing the media at the Sarna Siksha Abhiyan, Assam (SSA) office here, Pegu said that the State Government had decided in 2020 to almost regularize the services of 11,206 contractual teachers under the SSA. Now in order to maintain rationality against this near-regularization, the Government has decided to keep 8,000 sanctioned posts of regular teachers vacant to avoid duplicity and financial neutrality, Pegu said. He added that because that the regular posts will be kept vacant for a lont time till the retirement of the serving contractual teachers, the Government has deemed it prudent to abolish these posts in the interest of financial discipline.
The Education Minister, however, clarified that the Government may create posts of regular teachers as and when required owing to an increase in enrolment in future.
He said that according to Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE), there are 2,08,778 primary school teachers in the State, but there 7,079 tutors who have not been included in the data. Hence the total number of teachers at the primary level is 2,21,247. On the other hand, the total number of enrolled students at the primary level is 49,10,427. This means that the teacher-student ration at the primary level is 1:21 or 1:22, Pegu said, adding that it is satisfactory as of now. He said that new teachers will be required only if the number of enrolled students cross the 50-lakh mark.
Pegu also informed that the Government will implement the rotational system of posting to resolve the shortage of teachers in some schools.
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