Bad DIET: Staff rue neglect, lack of growth opportunity | Delhi NYOOOZ

Bad DIET: Staff rue neglect, lack of growth opportunity | Delhi NYOOOZ

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government’s interest in education, it seems, does not extend to strengthening the existing system. It doesn’t even consider the educators in Delhi’s District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs), teachers.The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and the nine DIETs, have been hobbled by the neglect of successive governments. Now the staff has to suffer the indignity of “supporting” private organisations engaged to conduct most of the in-service training.Education activists argue that the largesse to training, raised from Rs 9.4 crore to Rs 102 crore this year, would be better used for strengthening existing institutions.”If the government gave SCERT Rs 20 crore, it would’ve been transformed. The best people are there. Their experience and institutional memory are irreplaceable,” says former SCERT director Janki Rajan. But in matters of salary and benefits, the SCERT and DIET posts are not considered teaching ones – a quirk introduced after the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations – and, like in the rest of public education, the majority of them are vacant.”Of the nine DIETs, only four have permanent principals; of the 22 lecturer posts in SCERT, only seven and of the 126 lecturers posts in the DIETs, only 26 are filled. I don’t have the exact number of senior lecturers,” says a teacher. Established through a Union government scheme and funded by it, the DIETs have a roll-strength of 2,080 for pre-service diploma course on “Elementary Teacher Education”; they also run in-service training programmes, research and surveys. “Despite the neglect, our students are most successful in CTET (Central Teacher Eligibility Test).”The DIETs’ work conditions are calculated to repel talent. Teachers observe there is neither a pension scheme, comparable to Directorate of Education, nor any provision for “internal promotion”. They’ve had to compete with other applicants for posts. “There hasn’t been any ‘permanent’ recruitment since 2010,” says a teacher. For promotion, posts were advertised and interviews conducted in August 2008. The results haven’t yet been declared.”The Memorandum of Association stated that the terms and tenure of service for SCERT’s academic staff will be the same as those of NCERT. It wasn’t implemented. In 1999, SCERT amended the rule placing SCERT staff at par with Directorate of Education. Even that wasn’t fully implemented and after the Fifth and Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, the government has systematically devalued DIET’s teaching pos… News Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Bad-DIET-Staff-rue-neglect-lack-of-growth-opportunity/articleshow/52179820.cms Summary: “If the government gave SCERT Rs 20 crore, it would’ve been transformed. In 1999, SCERT amended the rule placing SCERT staff at par with Directorate of Education. It doesn’t even consider the educators in Delhi’s District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs), teachers.The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and the nine DIETs, have been hobbled by the neglect of successive governments. Teachers observe there is neither a pension scheme, comparable to Directorate of Education, nor any provision for “internal promotion”. NEW DELHI: The Delhi government’s interest in education, it seems, does not extend to strengthening the existing system. NEW DELHI: The Delhi government’s interest in education, it seems, does not extend to strengthening the existing system. It doesn’t even consider the educators in Delhi’s District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs), teachers.The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and the nine DIETs, have been hobbled by the neglect of successive governments. Now the staff has to suffer the indignity of “supporting” private organisations engaged to conduct most of the in-service training.Education activists argue that the largesse to training, raised from Rs 9.4 crore to Rs 102 crore this year, would be better used for strengthening existing institutions.”If the government gave SCERT Rs 20 crore, it would’ve been transformed. The best people are there. Their experience and institutional memory are irreplaceable,” says former SCERT director Janki Rajan. But in matters of salary and benefits, the SCERT and DIET posts are not considered teaching ones – a quirk introduced after the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations – and, like in the rest of public education, the majority of them are vacant.”Of the nine DIETs, only four have permanent principals; of the 22 lecturer posts in SCERT, only seven and of the 126 lecturers posts in the DIETs, only 26 are filled. Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Bad-DIET-Staff-rue-neglect-lack-of-growth-opportunity/articleshow/52179820.cms
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