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Lack of PE teachers leads to MCD students not getting enough exercise

MCD students do not get enough exercising opportunitites due to lack of teachers. Massive recruitment drive likely to solve the problem.

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Officials say that students of MCD schools are not getting the opportunity to sharpen their skills in sports, music or drawing as the number of teachers for these disciplines is low prompting a call for a massive recruitment drive. 

“The number of these teachers have been diminishing year after year as no fresh recruitment were conducted by the authorities since 1995,” said Ramniwas Solanki, General Secretary, Municipal Corporation of Teachers’ Association.

Currently, there are only 60 physical education, 49 music and 25 drawing teachers on the roll for over nine lakh students in 1,700 schools being run by North, South, and East Corporations. The schools operating under MCD offer education till Class V. 

In a bid to apprise the authorities about the situation, the association will write to the Commissioners and Mayors of the three civic bodies on Wednesday. 

“We will demand the authorities to conduct a recruitment drive for these teachers immediately and there should be at least one teacher for these subjects in each MCD school.

When the schools across the world are promoting extra curricular activities, we are depriving our children by not even providing the teachers,” Solanki added. 

“With no physical education, drawing and music teachers in several hundreds of MCD schools, students are neither getting proper physical training nor getting a chance to participate in any recreational activity. Many of these kids are from poor families. If we don't channelize their energy there is a risk of them getting involved in anti-social activities," said a teacher at an MCD school in east Delhi’s Patparganj.

Education officials at the civic bodies, however, cited “internal politics”as the reason behind the delay in recruitment of these “special teachers.” “There are people in the education department who don’t want the civic bodies to hire and promote these teachers over the one’s teaching other subjects,” a senior official said.

 

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