SHILLONG: Government to invest in training of primary school teachers

The Meghalaya government is gearing up to ensure that all primary school teachers in the state are trained.
Education Minister Rakmak A Sangma said, “We will find out.” We will ensure that all teachers are trained. If they cannot be trained systematically, we can at least give some short-term training, orientation and motivation,” Sangma said.
Meghalaya has 18,900 untrained primary teachers, only seven DIETs and one teacher training centre, with a total intake of 550 trainees per academic session, making it challenging to bridge the gap.
Saying that the recruitment process is in the final stages to fill over 1,200 vacancies in government LP schools and 300 to 400 vacancies in UP schools, the minister said, “In most cases, we release the results within 24 hours of completion.” Are declaring.” Of interview. This is the first time that we have done it within 24 hours.”
He said that appointment letters can be issued to successful candidates in the first week of January.
Stating that the Cabinet has already approved the Education Recruitment Board, he said, “DERT and B.Ed colleges will complete the process of filling 200-300 vacancies in secondary and higher secondary schools in three to four months.”
In July this year, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma had requested the Center to allow one-time training for untrained primary school teachers in the state.
The CM had told Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan during a meeting in New Delhi that there is a huge backlog of untrained teachers in Meghalaya due to limited institutional facilities.
In a letter addressed to Pradhan, Sangma underlined the lack of institutional facilities in Meghalaya. He informed that there are only five colleges of teacher education in the state which offer only 350 seats annually, while 5,548 secondary and 2,043 higher secondary teachers are untrained.
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The minister said that the demand of SSA teachers to regularize their services will require a lot of debate and discussion. However, he also said that a solution is being found.
“This is not an issue on which we can take a decision overnight. Taking a decision will require a lot of discussions and debates as SSA is a mission mode program of the Government of India,” he said.
“They (teachers) are appointed by school management committees (SMCs). Therefore, it is not a simple process for the government to take it over from SMC,” he said, adding that due process has to be followed.
For some time now, SSA teachers have been demanding regularization of their services and increase in salary.
In a memorandum addressed to the CM, the SSA Teachers Association said that the serving SSA teachers for the last 21 years have been deprived and neglected of their rights and provisions.
Pointing out that SSA is not separate but linked to RTE, the association stressed that SSA teachers should be taken into account under the RTE norms of the State Education Department and the present State Education Society.