Sir,
This refers to the editorial ‘Education with quality’ (DE,Nov14,2014).There is no doubt that Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of free India was a great visionary who gave a new direction to the education system of free India.The grateful nation paid him her homage by observing his birthday as Education Day.On his birth anniversary,The President of India has rightly cautioned the nation against falling standards of education and degradation in its quality.We often talk a lot about quality education and its need for the students of our country.But the cherished dream of quality education cannot be achieved when a large no of vacancies of teachers remain vacant in schools for months together.The teachers are often not posted and transferred strictly on the basis of their qualification and need in schools .To add to the sorry state of affairs,teachers in large numbers are deputed for conducting surveys, census, preparation of electoral rolls and conduct of elections jeopardising the system of education in the schools and depriving the children of their right to quality education.In majority of the cases,teachers and lecturers selected/promoted on the basis of RBA/ALC are posted in and around cities in utter disregard to the Reservation Act.Consequently,students studying in such areas are left to fend for themselves and for them quality education remains a distant dream.Similarly, in many schools, especially at higher secondery level, there are a large number of students which leads to overcrowded classrooms.Thus,there is also need to rationalise the posts of teachers and lecturers in accordance with the strength of students in schools.
Unless drastic reforms in the System of Education including recruitment of highly motivated teachers,lower teacher-pupil ratio,healthy rapport between teachers and parents,emphasis on moral education,stress on research and creativity are taken,the realisation of quality education will remain a distant dream.
Yours etc…
Ashok Sharma
Udhampur
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