National Coalition for Education (NCE), a voluntary organisation working on right to education (RTE), has opposed the fresh decision of the school and mass education department to engage teachers in quality monitoring of mid-day-meal (MDM) scheme.
NCE state advocacy officer Naba Kishore Pujari has alleged that teachers are consistently made overburdened by non-educational activities assigned by the state government.
On the one hand the Right to Education Act, 2009 in Article 27 prohibits that teachers cannot be engaged in non-educational works.
However, the school and mass education department is violating the provision at its convenience.
The department must withdraw the latest order and outsource the job to voluntary agencies to avoid complications, he said. NCE steering committee member and Utkal Primary Teachers Federation secretary Kamalakanta Tripathy said that pre-school education of the children in the age group of 3 to 6 years is handed over to anganwadi workers who are neither skilled nor who can play a motivator's role.
This acts as a causative factor for the increasing dropout rate in the schools, Tripathy alleged.
NCE state advocacy officer Naba Kishore Pujari has alleged that teachers are consistently made overburdened by non-educational activities assigned by the state government.
On the one hand the Right to Education Act, 2009 in Article 27 prohibits that teachers cannot be engaged in non-educational works.
However, the school and mass education department is violating the provision at its convenience.
The department must withdraw the latest order and outsource the job to voluntary agencies to avoid complications, he said. NCE steering committee member and Utkal Primary Teachers Federation secretary Kamalakanta Tripathy said that pre-school education of the children in the age group of 3 to 6 years is handed over to anganwadi workers who are neither skilled nor who can play a motivator's role.
This acts as a causative factor for the increasing dropout rate in the schools, Tripathy alleged.
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