Creation of districts will badly affect DSC

The creation of new districts is likely to hit the recruitment of teacher posts under DSC in the state. The state government has announced that it would give notification for 9,000 teacher posts but continued the academic year with Vidya Volunteers. 

The state government should adjust the existing posts before giving notification for new recruitment.

The unemployed- youth waiting for DSC disappointed a lot with the division of existing districts, as they will become non- locals to the new districts and already teacher posts were exhausted in government schools around the parent district headquarters and no scope for new posts.

Posts are lying vacant in the government schools in the interior areas in the new districts to be created - Mancherial and Nirmal but unemployed youth do not get the full benefit of those teacher posts to be recruited in future.

Hardly find 30 vacancies of SGT teacher posts while School Assistant posts were a surplus in the government schools in the Adilabad, Bela, Jainad, Talamdugu and Tamsi mandals while hundreds of vacancies in the government schools in the areas in Nirmal and Mancherial.

A large number of government teachers are working in Mancherial and Nirmal areas as there were no vacancies in the Adilabad area.

There are 46 Zilla Parishad High School in plain area and 53 in the Agency areas in the Adilabad Taluq. Meanwhile, there are 106 high schools in Nirmal area that too in the fully plain area.  There are more vacancies of teacher posts in interior Tanoor and Kubheer mandals sharing border with the Maharashtra

District general secretary of TUSTF A. Venkat said filling government teachers posts is not an easy to process in the wake of the creation of the new district and added that state government has to first adjust posts lying vacant with the native teachers working in other places going by their bonafide and service book.

The state government will give notification for the left over vacancies only after completing this process and it can create supernumerary posts instead filling up regular posts if it is necessary.

Teachers Union demanding the state government to transfer the non- tribals teacher working in tribal areas to plain areas and fill up the vacancies with the tribals as per the G NO: 3.

Midday meal comes to the rescue of poor

students playing in school premises in Jaithram Thanda

It may have become routine for government schools to serve a mid-day meal- rice with dal- but it does help children of families in the district who are reeling under utter poverty.

The heat is keeping away many students from coming to school while those do come show little interest in attending classes during the summer vacation, being more keep on playing.

The mid- day meal helps to fill the stomachs of the children from impoverished homes at least once a day, this state of affairs being acutely visible in the tribal  areas of the district.

Poor parents who go to work during the summer are able to have the children play in the school premises in their respective villages.

Nearly 20 students were seen playing at a primary government school in JaithramThanda in Utnoor mandal after eating their mid- day meal, enjoying their summer holidays without hindrances.

Teachers in- charge of serving a mid-day meal at government schools have not been able to focus on teaching special classes to the students as the children are in  no mood to listen.

One of the students summed it up when he said that he had eaten the midday meal, had been playing on het school premise and that they were facing an acute  drinking water problems in the village.

Villagers oppose new private English medium schools

People of a few villages opposing the establishment of new private schools in their villages as they strongly feel that the private schools will affect the government schools in Adilabad district.

Villagers are spending thousands of rupees for school fee. On the other hand, government teachers are campaigning in the villages appealing to the parents to send their children government schools instead private.

Villagers of Pipparwada had passed a unanimous resolution recently in gram panchayat opposing setting up a private primary school in their village in Jainad mandal.

Villagers have been campaigning in favor of government schools to improve the enrollment of the students in their schools in Lokeshwar mandal.

Government teacher R. Venu of Adilabad said, “parents should take the lead to protect the government schools and strengthening them the teachers will follow them”.

Teachers of government schools have launched a campaign in the villages highlighting the facilities available at their schools and highly qualified teachers and other provisions like mid-day meal, school uniforms, and no fees.

Some of the government teachers distributing pamphlets with the information highlighting the facilities and explaining how government schools are best compared to private schools and taking out rallies to create awareness among the people about the advantages of the government schools.

People of some villages passing resolutions demanding the state government to introduce the English medium in the government school in their village to reduce the financial on the parents sending their children to private English medium schools and also save the strengthen the government school in the larger interests.

Director of school education earlier issued orders allowing villagers to introduce English medium in the government school if parents are interests and they will accord the permission to such schools and consider the English medium at their school.

It is surprising to note that, villagers are questioning the teachers for asking them to join their children in government schools while sending their children to private English medium schools. People asking the teachers admit their own children at government schools.

Rice not so 'fine'

Though the state government claims that fine quality rice is being supplied in the midday meal in schools and government hostels, the ground reality is different.

It is true that for the last two months since the scheme began, students were happy with the fine quality rice. But things have changed just after schools reopened.

The coarse rice instead fine quality is being supplied to the hostels and Ashram schools in interior tribal areas due to lack of supervision by the officials.

The rice becomes sticky when cooked unlike fine quality rice and students are complaining of the strong unpleasant smell. It is found that third grade rice is being supplied to the hostels and schools in the name of fine rice.

There are strong allegations that rice millers colluding with some corrupt officials indulging in the fine quality rice scheme.

However, many government teachers working in the interior areas say that ordinary rice in place of fine quality was only supplied for midday meals and hostels in interior areas like Kotapalli, Vemanpalli and Chennur mandals and also in the Agency mandals in the district.  

Doke Bheemkka, mid-day meal worker, at Jagannathpur village in Kagaznagar mandal said the rice being supplied was not tasty and emanated a foul smell, so they returned the coarse rice to the rice distribution point for exchange when students complained over the rice quality.

Another midday meal worker, Kursinga Thonebai of Gond Jhari in Kerameri mandal, said they were getting ordinary rice and there was no taste and smell that one gets from cooked rice.

S. K Sameer, studying in Class IX at the government school in the Adilabad town, the rice supplied was not as tasty (‘Khana taste Nahihai … Dal Pathla Karke Dere..) and the dal was watery.

Some of the teachers working in the tribal ashram schools in Utnoor say that the rice is becomes sticky after cooking though the rice was of fine quality and it  depends on cooking methods and cooks.

Fine quality rice is being diverted to other destinations from the stock points itself and common rice being supplied in place of fine rice.

On the other hand, the area of paddy cultivation has come down in the major rice producing district Karimnagar and Nizmabad due to prolonged drought conditions in the last four Agriculture seasons and the yield has also come down.

Some of the rice millers of Karimnagar shifted their rice mills to bordering Chattisgarh due to high rate of levy on the rice imposed by the state government.  Some of the rice millers allegedly supplied common rice procured from Maharashtra and Chattisgarh in the name of fine quality rice to the schools and hostels.     

According to official sources, fine quality rice is being supplied to 3,850 government schools where 3, 24, 490 students are studying in the district.

Urdu medium posts may be de-reserved

Efforts are being made to de-reserve Urdu medium teacher posts which have been lying vacant for the last 20 years in the government Urdu medium schools in the Agency areas to recruit those teacher posts on regular basis with the eligible and trained Urdu medium candidates in the Adilabad district of Telangana.

These posts were reserved for tribal candidates in the Agency areas and cannot be filled with candidates of other communities. But there were no eligible Urdu medium candidates from Tribals to recruit them in the posts reserved for them.

However, experts say that de-reservation of Urdu medium posts which were  reserved for tribals in the areas was not easy process and this needs amendment of tribal laws at state and central governments level.

There are 58 Urdu medium teacher posts which were laying vacant at 20 Urdu medium schools at various places in the Agency areas right now in the district. All these schools are being run by vidya volunteers of Urdu medium.

In some cases, parents have admitted their children in Telugu medium schools due to lack of regular teachers and poor studies at Urdu medium schools in the same location.

   

There was good demand for Urdu medium schools in the Agency areas as Muslim Minority population was in considerable numbers in the agency areas in  Utnoor, Indravelli, Ichoda, Kerameri, Asifabad, Jainoor and Narnoor mandals in the district.              

Urdu medium teacher posts have not been filled though posts were notified in many DSC notifications as there were no suitable eligible candidates from the Tribal communities as the posts were reserved for tribals in the Agency areas.

Two ministers of this district Jogu Ramanna and Allola Indrakaran Reddy were making efforts to de-reserve Urdu posts to fill them with Muslim minorities. There were many Muslim minority eligible candidates for the Urdu teacher posts in government schools but cannot be filed the posts with them in the Agency.

Muslim minority organizations many times represented to the governments, Ministers and officials concerned expressing their concern over Urdu medium schools running in agency area under ITDA, Utnoor in pathetic condition where nearly 2,000 students were studying. The scheduled area norms have become an obstacle in recruiting the Muslim Minority candidates. 

Along with Khanapur MLA Rekha Naik, a team led by district convenor Syed Karim of Telangana Minority Welfare Society, met the deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali and requested him to take steps to improve the facilities at Urdu medium schools in the agency areas in the Adilabad district and appoint minority Urdu teachers with conditional appointment on regular basis. 

Two years ago, an Urdu medium primary school was closed down due to lack of teachers at IB Chowrasta of Utnoor. Teacher MLC P. Sudhakar Reddy has also advocated de-reserve Urdu medium teacher posts to recruit the posts lying vacant for long years in the agency in the district.

                                                                                                               (Sept 23,2015) 

Prof. Shantha Sinha: 'Improve health conditions in Adilabad'

  

Former Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Shantha Sinha demanded that state government declare health emergency in the Adilabad following the much prevalent viral fevers, malaria and dengue cases and deaths reported and to take coordinated efforts to improve the health situation in the district.

She stressed upon the need for social audit by the civil society groups and members of grampanchayat on the activities of the Anganwadis and facilities and staff available at government schools and to submit reports to the governments.

Shantha Sinha was addressing at a workshop on ‘Right to Education Act and status of the children in the District’ here jointly organized by ‘DREAM’ NGO and MV foundation in Adilabad.

She said that coordinated efforts should be made to control the seasonal outbreak diseases in the district and this was responsibility of not just health department instead all the allied departments.

Shantha Sinha appealed to the people to oversee the effective implementation of Right to Education Act and Food Security Act which empower the poor and downtrodden and said demanding the government for implementation of these Acts were not at all begging but it was people’ right.

‘Every district should have own ‘district child policy’ and member of the Zilla Parishad should debate and discuss the issues pertaining to children and come out with new measures to empower them and to protect their rights at district level’, she opined.

National convenor of MV Foundation R. Venkat Reddy said governments should take steps to reserve 25 percent seats for the students of SC and ST and economical backward communities and provide them free education as per the Right to Education Act.

Age relief gives hope

Hundreds of youth wrote the Dietcet -2015 as the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) has generated hope among the youth and students that it will soon issue notification for 25,000 jobs in first phase.

The possible 10- year age relaxation given for government jobs by the state government encouraged even middle-aged persons to write the exam with the hope of landing a teacher job.

There is great demand for the D.Ed courses unlike the past: all posts of secondary grade teachers have been filled up D.Ed graduates on the orders of the Supreme Court.

Candidates who completed their B.Ed course are eligible for the post of the school assistant. However, school assistants are to be selected by the District Selection Committees.   

However, vacancies will be few as all most 70 percent of the posts would be filled up through promotions with the secondary grade teachers to take classes from 1 to 5 in government primary schools.

In this backdrop, thousands of youth and middle aged candidates took the Dietcet conducted across the state August 9. As many as 7,195 candidates out of 7,539 applied took the test in the district.

Alke Ashok of Adilabad, who has completed B.Ed and is waiting for the or DSC notification, said those who could not write the Dietcet in the past attended the examination this time due to the age limit restrictions.

He said it was very difficult to get School Assistant jobs through the DSC due to few posts given notified, as against the thousands of candidates who have completed their B.Ed. It appears the education department is showing the need for fewer teachers after rationalizing the teachers’ posts.

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