Saturday, December 22, 2018

Retd teachers won’t get job extension mid yr

Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com

Chennai:22.12.2018

The state government has done away with extension of services for teachers whose tenure ends during an academic year.

At present, a teacher whose retirement date falls after June (beginning of an academic year) is given extension till March-April (end of the academic year). Given the surplus teaching strength in government schools, school education department officials said the extensions were causing an additional financial burden in terms of monthly salaries.

A government order released in connection with this stated that teachers who retired at the age of 58 would no longer be re-employed. The practice of re-employing retired teachers began in 1959 when there was a shortage of teachers and government found it difficult to find replacements in the middle of an academic year. This in turn had an adverse impact on the students’ academic performance. To avoid this, teachers were allowed to serve till the end of the academic year.

On an average, 2,500 teachers retire each year and 500 of them receive extensions, shows data. But now TN has 15,000 surplus teachers, say government reports. With 2.3 lakh teachers, the teacher:student ratio is around 1:25. Despite lack of subject teachers and existence of singleteacher schools, it is comfortably above national average.

So, re-employment of retired teachers was an additional financial burden and doing away with it won’t impact the students, read orders issued by Pradeep Yadav, school education secretary. Also, most of the teachers are not allotted classes regularly and some are promoted to do administrative work in district level education department offices, it added. The GO exempted schools where there are no surplus teachers.

In a related development, the government has decided to take strict action against teachers who go on unauthorised leave. District and chief educational officers have been instructed to take strict action against such absentees, failing which disciplinary proceedings will be initiated against them, read a circular sent to schools. The circular warned that pension and other benefits of teachers who die during such unauthorised leave period will be stopped.

Special classes during holidays

Chennai:

The school education department has decided to conduct special classes for Class X, XI and XII students during the half-yearly holidays. A circular sent to schools stated that the classes will be optional and students willing to study for NEET or annual board exams can attend. Teachers who have been instructed to finish half-yearly paper evaluation before reopening will assist the students. The 413 special NEET coaching centres will also be functional during the 10-day break. TNN

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