Teachers’ body demands amendment of Provincialised Act

GUWAHATI: A delegation of 15 members of the All Assam Non-Provincialised Teachers' Association, Assam, headed by Biswajit Sarkar and Chief Secretary Yogeshwar Chetia met Education Minister Dr. Ranoj Pegu at Janata Bhawan on August 30. They had a discussion regarding the provincialization of educational institutions and the posts that are deprived of provincialization in 2013/2021.

Addressing the media, the association's president said that the education minister assured to provincialized all the posts that are deprived in 2013/2021 by amending the Provincialisation Act 2017 and Amendment Act 2018 in the forthcoming winter assembly session.

Sarkar also focused on the main demands of the association: all the public sector educational institutions established before January 1, 2006, have received departmental permission, recognition, concurrence, and affiliation after January 1, 2006. Hence, all educational institutions are required to come under the Provincialization Act based on any authentic documents before January 1, 2006.

The appointment letters through the School Management Committee or Governing Body should be counted, and the teaching and non-teaching staff posts for which those names have been in the U-DISE or U-DISE Plus should be considered until 2022. In Lower and Upper Primary Schools, any District Information System for Education (DISE) year should count and complete the Provincialization Process instead of 2009-10 DISE.

The schools that have been running smoothly without U-DISE Plus and whose names have not been included in the UDISE or U-DISE PLUSE due to data entry errors and mistakes by Management Information System (MIS) It should be considered for provincialization.

About 4500 teacher-educators need to be recruited soon after the deprivation and elimination of upper primary schools during the drive for provincialization in 2013 and 2021. Since the high school and high madrassa sectors have to fill a few gaps, many educational institutions have been left out after the last post-provincialization process. Based on the previous results and numbers of students (HSLC/AHM) of those educational programmes, the result of the final year examination, and the number of 25 students, the results and numbers of any three years within this period from 2013 to 2022 should be counted, and arrangements for amendment of provincialization should be made.

On or before January 1, 2006, the high schools that appeared in the matriculation examination for the coming year should be brought under provincialization.

It takes about 67 senior secondary (earlier junior college) and 77 higher secondary and 43 degree college educational institutions to conduct the first and second years. Concurrence, affiliation, permission, prior permission, etc. from competent authorities should be considered for all institutions for provincialization.

The institutions under BTR and all autonomous councils, tea gardens, border areas, tribal areas, etc. should be provincialized without any conditions.

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