Focus on primary education

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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2010/06/22/stories/2010062251860300.htm)
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Focus on primary education


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KORAPUT: New equations seem to have been drawn in Koraput district for ensuring primary education at the grassroots. While 606 teachers from primary and upper primary schools in Koraput have been transferred, 244 of them got transferred in Jeypore.
It is for the first time in the last many years that transfer of teachers in such a high scale has been carried out in Koraput district. Moreover, while the transfers in the past were mostly influenced by the leaders of various political parties and others close to the education department, this time it was done under the direct supervision of district Collector Rajesh Pravakar Patil.
While teachers from the urban areas were transferred to rural areas and vice-versa, efforts were made to see that the woman teachers who were transferred from the urban areas got posting in schools near to the approachable roads in the block areas and especially in the schools where special girls' hostels were opened recently, Mr. Patil said. However for serious gaps like transferring the same teacher to more than one place, transferring some teachers who were engaged in census work and allegedly not maintaining any particular criteria in the process of transfer, the initiative was put under scanner by the critics. Such unwarranted cases and other instances with genuine health concern would be reviewed for correction, Mr. Patil added.
Data bank
According to Mr. Patil, the district should have a proper data bank of teachers at one place to facilitate more transparency in such a situation. Efforts are now in progress to create an elaborate data bank on all the teachers in the district documenting their service over a certain period of time tracking their history, present day's status and their strength and resourcefulness. This will also be placed in the official website of the district for more transparency.






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