The BMC seems to be taking the Right to Education Act mandate, which prescribes that there should be adequate number of teachers for students, rather lightly. Even as the number of students opting for English-medium schools has gone up, the number of teachers in these schools has dropped.
Details procured under the Right to Information Act shows that currently, there is a dearth of 211 in civic English-medium schools (where the students have increased by 36% in the last three years). In contrast, there are 2,076 teachers extra in regional language schools, where the number of students seeking admission is dropping, the data showed.
"Looking at the 2010-2011 data and looking at the RTE rules, the BMC needs to have one teacher for every 40 students in Marathi, Hindi, English and Urdu medium schools. For Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Gujarati medium schools, there has to be one teacher for every 30 students. But the way it has been organized, there are extra teachers in all the other schools, whereas there are fewer teachers than required in English-medium schools," said RTI activist Anil Galgali.
There are 1,706 extra teachers in Marathi-medium schools, while Hindi-medium schools have 148 more teachers than required. Urdu medium schools have 116 extra teachers, while Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu and Kannada-medium schools have 54, 200, 37 and 260 teachers in excess respectively. English schools, which have 29,808 students, have a dearth of 211 teachers.
The data also shows that between the academic years 2007-2008 to 2010-2011, English-medium schools were the only ones to register an increase in the number of admissions. While admissions to Marathi-medium and Hindi-medium schools saw a 20% and 2.8% drop respectively in the number of students, English-medium schools saw a 36% increase. While there were 4,11,907 students studying in all BMC schools (regional and English medium), the number went down to 3,76,059 students in 2010-2011.
A senior BMC official in charge of education said that the administration is doing all it can to bridge the gap. "We are looking into the matter and are planning to hire teachers with proficiency for teaching in English. We have already begun revamping the education system after an MoU was signed with UNICEF and have come up with the School Excellence Programme last year," he said.
Right to Education Act that mandates adequate teachers for students does not seem to be taken seriously by the BMC. Even though the number of students ditching regional language schools and embracing English medium schools is gradually increasing, the number of teachers to teach them in English has gone down.
Details procured under the Right to Information Act show that currently, there is a dearth of 211 teachers for civic English medium schools (where students have increased by 36 per cent over the last three years). There are 2076 teachers extra in all the other regional language schools where the number of students seeking admission is dropping, the data showed.
"Looking at the data of 2010-2011 and looking at the RTE rules, the BMC needs to have one teacher for every 40 students in Marathi, Hindi, English and Urdu medium schools. For Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Gujarati medium schools, there needs to be one teacher for every 30 students. But the way it has been organized, there are extra teachers in all the other schools, whereas the number of teachers is lesser than required in English medium schools," said RTI activist Anil Galgali.
Data procured for schools run in eight different languages, there is an excess of 2,076 teachers, the more number of which (1,706) are in Marathi medium schools. Hindi schools have 148 teachers extra, Urdu 116, Tamil 54. Gujarati, Telugu and Kannada medium schools have an excess of 200, 37 and 260 teachers. English schools, which have 29,808 students, have a dearth of 211 teachers. BMC data shows there are 3,76,059 students and 11,683 teachers while the current need of teachers is 9,609.
It also shows that from the academic year 2007-2008 to 2010-2011, English medium schools are the only ones where admissions are increasing. While admissions to Marathi medium and Hindi medium schools saw a 20 per cent and 2.8 per cent drop in the number of students. English medium students saw a 36 per cent increase. During the same period, the number of students coming to civic schools went down by 8.7 per cent. While there were 4,11,907 students studying in BMC-run schools (regional and English medium), the number went down to 3,76,059 students in 2010-2011.
A senior BMC official in charge of education said that the administration is doing all it can to bridge the gap. "We are looking into the matter and are planning to hire teachers with proficiency for teaching English. We have already begun revamping the education system after an MoU was signed with the UNICEF and came up with the School Excellence Programme last year," the official said.
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