Lok Sabha Question No. 4300 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-07
Subject: Single Teacher Schools
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †4300 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.01.2019

## Single Teacher Schools

## †4300. SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE:

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

(a) whether there are more than one lakh Government primary and secondary schools in the country having only one teacher and if so, the details of such schools, State/UT-wise;

(b) the scheme being formulated by the Government supplement the efforts being made by the States particularly in respect of such schools; and

(c) whether any special scheme is likely to be implemented to ensure proper student teacher ratio in such schools and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a): As per Unified District Information System of Education (UDISE), 2016-17 (Provisional), there are 92275 single-teacher Government schools at both elementary level and secondary level. State/UTwise details of such schools are at Annexure .

(b) & (c): The RTE Act, 2009 in its Schedule lays down Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) for both primary and upper primary schools. At primary level, the PTR norm is 30:1 and at the upper primary level it is 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, for upper primary schools is 17:1 and for Secondary level is 27:1. However, the recruitment, service conditions and redeployment of teachers are primarily in the domain of respective  State  Governments  and  Union  Territories  (UT)  Administrations.  The  Central Government  through  the  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of  Samagra  Shiksha  provides  assistance  to State Governments/UTs for additional teachers to maintain appropriate Pupil Teacher Ratio as per the requirements of the States/UTs. The Central Government has been consistently pursuing the matter of expeditious  recruitment  and  redeployment  of  teachers  with  the  States  and  UTs  at  various  fora. Advisories on this issue have also been issued to States and UTs from time to time.

The  steps  taken  by  the  Central  Government  to  improve  teachers'  performance  include,  inter  alia, regular in-service teachers' training, induction training for newly recruited teachers, academic support for  teachers  and  monitoring  teachers'  attendance  through  School  Management  Committees/School Management  Development  Committees/Block  Resource  Centres/Clusters  Resource  Centres.  States and  UTs  are  also  encouraged  to  use  digital  technology  like  installation  of  Bio-metric  attendance system in schools.

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4300 ASKED BY SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.01.2019 REGARDING SINGLE TEACHER SCHOOLS

|    | State                    | Single Teacher Government Total number of single teacher schools   |
|----|--------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  1 | ANDAMAN &NICOBAR ISLANDS | 0                                                                  |
|  2 | ANDHRA PRADESH           | 7483                                                               |
|  3 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH        | 1077                                                               |
|  4 | ASSAM                    | 4624                                                               |
|  5 | BIHAR                    | 3483                                                               |
|  6 | CHANDIGARH               | 0                                                                  |
|  7 | CHHATTISGARH             | 2810                                                               |
|  8 | DADRA&NAGAR HAVELI       | 0                                                                  |
|  9 | DAMAN &DIU               | 3                                                                  |
| 10 | DELHI                    | 5                                                                  |
| 11 | GOA                      | 292                                                                |
| 12 | GUJARAT                  | 985                                                                |
| 13 | HARYANA                  | 879                                                                |
| 14 | HIMACHAL PRADESH         | 1214                                                               |
| 15 | JAMMU &KASHMIR           | 1758                                                               |
| 16 | JHARKHAND                | 7564                                                               |
| 17 | KARNATAKA                | 4767                                                               |
| 18 | KERALA                   | 294                                                                |
| 19 | LAKSHADWEEP              | 0                                                                  |
| 20 | MADHYAPRADESH            | 18307                                                              |
| 21 | MAHARASHTRA              | 2784                                                               |
| 22 | MANIPUR                  | 340                                                                |
| 23 | MEGHALAYA                | 217                                                                |
| 24 | MIZORAM                  | 66                                                                 |
| 25 | NAGALAND                 | 31                                                                 |
| 26 | ODISHA                   | 1218                                                               |
| 27 | PUDUCHERRY               | 0                                                                  |
| 28 | PUNJAB                   | 899                                                                |
| 29 | RAJASTHAN                | 12052                                                              |
| 30 | SIKKIM                   | 1                                                                  |
| 31 | TAMIL NADU               | 829                                                                |
| 32 | TELANGANA                | 4587                                                               |
| 33 | TRIPURA                  | 0                                                                  |
| 34 | UTTAR PRADESH            | 8092                                                               |
| 35 | UTTARAKHAND              | 1858                                                               |
| 36 | WEST BENGAL INDIA        | 3756 92275                                                         |

Source UDISE 2016-17 (Provisional)