Lok Sabha Question No. 2165 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-01-01
Subject: Appointment Procedure of Teachers
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SUSHIL KUMAR SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2165 TO BE ANSWERED ON 1 st  January, 2018

## Appointment Procedure of Teachers

## †2165.SHRI SUSHIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be  pleased  to state:

- (a)   whether it is a fact that the students studying  in  different  educational institutions are  deprived  from  quality education  due  to  discrepancies  in  the appointment procedure of teachers in the country; and
- (b)   if  so,  the  effective  steps  taken/ proposed to be taken by the Government to bring  transparency    in    appointment  procedure  to  make  the  teachers accountable  and    to    provide    quality    education    in    the  educational institutions?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a)  &  (b)  : The  recruitment,  service  conditions  and  deployment  of  teachers  are primarily in the domain of the State Governments/UT Administrations. However, the Central  Government  through  the  centrally  sponsored  schemes  of  Sarva  Shiksa Abhiyan  (SSA)  at  elementary  level  and  Rashtriya  Madhyamik  Shiksha  Abhiyan (RMSA) at secondary level provides assistance to the State Governments/UT s for additional teachers to maintain appropriate Pupil T eacher Ratio (PTR) as per the prescribed norms for various levels of schooling. Further, the Central Government has been consistently pursuing the matter of expeditious recruitment  and redeployment of teachers and to implement norms of the RTE Act 2009 with the States and UT s at various forums. Advisories to implement the norms of the RTE Act have also been issued to States and UTs from time to time.

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 in its Schedule lays down PTR for both primary and upper primary schools. At primary level, the PTR should be 30:1 and at the upper primary level it should be 35:1. As per the  Unified District Information System For Education (UDISE) 2015-16, the PTR at national level for primary schools is 23:1 and upper primary schools is 17:1, which is better than the norm laid down in the RTE Act, 2009. As per RMSA norms, PTR  at  secondary  level  should  be  30:1.  As  per  UDISE  2015-16,  the  PTR  at Secondary Level is 27:1.

The  Central  Government  has  notified  the  National  Council  for  T eacher Education  (NCTE)  as  the  Academic  Authority  at  the  national  level  for  teacher education  and  qualification.  NCTE  has  prescribed  teacher  qualifications  as  per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009.  It has also made it mandatory that all persons holding teacher qualifications as laid down by the NCTE must also pass a teacher eligibility test (TET). This ensures that qualified persons are appointed as teachers so as to improve the quality of education.

Further,  Section  23(2)  of  the  RTE  Act  has  been  amended  to  extend  the period for training of untrained in-service elementary teachers to 31st March, 2019. As per above amendment, all untrained in-service teachers working in Government, Government  aided, and Private un-aided schools should  acquire  minimum qualification  as  laid  down  by  an  academic  authority,  authorized  by  the  Central Government, by 31st March, 2019. The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has been entrusted to conduct this training through ODL(Open Distance Learning) mode. The  online D.El.Ed. course has been started from 3rd October, 2017.

Further, under SSA  and RMSA,  support is provided to the State Governments and UT Administrations on various interventions to improve teaching standards, including inter alia;  induction training and  regular in-service teachers' training, including training on ICT Component,  Inclusive Education,  Gender Sensitization and Adolescent Education. Under both SSA and RMSA, the focus is to give subject specific, need based and relevant in service teacher training to both elementary and secondary teachers for their professional development.

In  order  to  focus  on  quality  education,  the  Central  RTE  Rules  have  been amended on 20th February, 2017 to include reference on class-wise, subject-wise Learning  Outcomes,  to  serve  as  a  guideline  for  States/UT s  to  ensure  that  all children acquire appropriate learning levels. The Learning Outcomes for each class at  elementary  stage  in  Languages  (Hindi,  English  and  Urdu),  Mathematics, Environmental  Studies,  Science  and  Social  Science  have  been  finalized  and shared with the States and UTs. .

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