The civic body wants to outsource the teaching job in municipal schools to two private companies — Zee Learn and IL&FS.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) may be making tall claims about improvement in educational standards in municipal schools, but it seems chief minister Narendra Modi is not happy.
So the civic body wants to outsource the teaching job in these schools to two private companies — Zee Learn and IL&FS.
AMC will sign MoUs with these two companies at Vibrant Gujarat summit 2011.
While the MoU with Zee Learn will be a tri-party agreement involving the state government, the MoU with IL&FS will be bilateral in nature.
The first phase of the programme is likely to be launched in Modi’s constituency Maninagar from the next academic year. The companies are carrying out surveys of the municipal schools in Maninagar, Isanpur and Amaraiwadi.
They are taking stock of the infrastructure facilities and level of education in these schools and they will also take into consideration the results of last Gunnotsava.
The Ahmedabad Municipal School Board, the primary education arm of AMC, will hand over 25 primary schools to Zee Learn for improvement in quality of education. IL&FS will get five schools initially.
The school board will provide buildings, while the companies will hire teaches. “They will adopt the schools for five to seven years and take necessary action for improvement of education level in these schools,” said a source.
Sources said that the chief minister had recently shown his disappointment at the educational standard of children studying at municipal schools.
Although the civic body has upgraded infrastructure facilities by repairing old structures and setting up new schools in Maninagar assembly constituency, it has not helped much.
Deputy municipal commissioner (school board) SK Langa said that none of the schools will be transferred to the companies.
There will be three level interventions such as improving the quality of education, teaching and learning methods, and running and managing schools.
He said that the school board will keep an eye on the progress and the final decision regarding the curriculum will be taken by the civic body authorities only. The companies cannot keep any child out of these initiatives.
“Our aim is to enable municipal schools to compete with private schools. There will be lot more activity other than teaching in municipal schools that will be adopted by the companies,” said Langa.
A few months back, AMC had taken a decision not to allow any NGO to carry out teaching activities in municipal schools.
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