Arunachal Education Minister advocates merging schools with low enrollment
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State merger schools with low tuition will solve most of the problems in the public education system, Arunachal Pradeshsaid Education Minister Pasang Dorjee Sona.
The minister, who is on a tour to review the follow-up of ‘Chintan Shivir’, said that the merger of schools should be done based on the availability of infrastructure, land and accessibility to basic amenities through a pragmatic approach.
“Our vision is to provide quality education to all children right from the primary level by clustering and amalgamating primary level schools, and providing quality infrastructure and better human resources, besides other interventions,” Sona said on Friday during his Visit Yingkiong, the headquarters of Upper Siang District.
In August, the Education Department conducted a three-day ‘Chintan Shivir’. During the meeting, stakeholders discussed strategies to provide quality education to all children in the state.
“We have started a mission to reach out to people in all districts of the state and know their basic ideas and situations so that there are no obstacles during the implementation of the programmes,” Sona said.
He said school bashing must be addressed as a mission for a brighter future of the students.
Advisor to Education Minister Mutchu Mithi said that instead of quantity, the most important thing is to improve the quality of education in the state.
Upper Siang deputy director of school education Duhon Tekseng, in a representation to the minister, called for more teachers, science stream for Mariyang Government Senior Secondary School and renovation of schools and teachers’ quarters.
In July, Sona had told the assembly that more than 600 schools had been closed or merged with other schools in the state.
Arunachal Pradesh has more than 2,800 government-run lower primary, upper secondary and higher primary schools. There are more than 7,600 tenured teachers and more than 5,900 ISSE (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan teachers).
There is a shortage of 414 trained graduate teachers (TGTs) and 186 PGTs in the state, including in mathematics and science, officials said.
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