Centre may stop non-teaching duties for govt school teachers

The central government is looking at a policy-level intervention to end the practice of engaging teachers in non-teaching jobs at school level to improve the standards of teaching and learning, sources in the government said. 

A recent analysis conducted by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) found that teaching and subsequently learning is massively getting affected because of teachers being engaged in jobs like election duty, aadhaar updation and mid-day meals. 

The study was submitted by the NUEPA to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) about two months ago and the ministry is presently working on analysing the effects at the ground level. “The study shows massive effect on teaching and learning because of teachers being engaged in non-teaching jobs. In some primary schools, there were just four teachers, out of which two were engaged non-teaching jobs.”