'Untrained' teachers to be given VRS

Updated on: Monday, March 14, 2011

Meghalaya Government is contemplating on offering Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to some 15,000 'untrained' teachers in the state, most of them without even minimum qualifications, Governor R S Mooshahary said.
"Keeping in mind the huge backlog of about 15,000 untrained teachers and the limited capacity in government-run institutions, government is contemplating outsourcing of services for training such teachers," the Governor said in his address to the state assembly on the opening day of the budget session.

The Governor, however, added that those teachers who cannot be trained due to their not having minimum qualifications are proposed to be given the option of VRS.

"Discussions with the Asian Development Bank for funding the scheme are under way," the Governor informed.

In the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) arena, the state government has received sanction from the Centre for continuing with the ongoing project to bring about connectivity to about 241 schools, so that students gain access to IT and digital empowerment, Mooshahary said.

Stating that distance learning and teaching under the EDUSAT programme is also being intensified in collaboration with ISRO, the Governor said an educational portal has been launched to allow public scrutiny of the activities of the education department.

"With a view to prepare the ground for introduction of the impending national curriculum framework, the department has already started to revise the curriculum at all levels to improve content and efficacy of teaching in schools. To make education at secondary level more meaningful, a process has started to mainline vocational courses in the curriculum," the governor said.

'Untrained' teachers to be given VRS

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