Assam: Only 40 days of classes taken in Eight months in Govt Schools

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• Nov 28, 2022 | Guriya Khatun

The union said the teachers were busy for hours uploading information online while celebrating various festivals. The union said the teachers were busy uploading information online while celebrating various festivals.

Digital Desk: In the past eight months, the state government and the central government have imposed new guidelines on celebrating various days in government C schools. As a result, primary and secondary schools have not been able to teach the core curriculum to students.

The schools were unable to teach on the selected curriculum until mid-June due to the Gunotsav held at the beginning of this academic year. There were also floods in various parts of the state. There was also a total suspension of teaching for seven days including preparation and training for the three-phase Gunotsav.

The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) academic calendar did not mention the prolonged celebration of programs like Gunotsav or Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. In addition, the state and central governments contributed to the decline of public sector educational institutions by adding such celebration days.

Apart from Gunotsav, there are already 50 days celebrated including National Awareness Day on Energy Saving, Clean Week, house-to-house national flag hoisting, Nutrition Month, and recently essay writing or other activities to celebrate the 400th birth anniversary of Lachit Barphukan They have exceeded.

In addition to the new decisions taken by the central and state governments, students of government schools have been busy celebrating various days for about 75 days in the past eight months.

While students are busy celebrating various days, teachers are also being burdened with other workloads at a higher rate than teaching.

As per government directives, the core curriculum will also be taught for various meetings like FLN, Gurushala, and other online training, teaching in Bandhu Vidyalayas, bank transaction training, data uploading training in UDIS, school management committee training, Gunotsav results, evaluation review, etc Not really proceeding according to the calendar.

The union said the teachers were busy for hours uploading information online while celebrating various festivals. The union said the teachers were busy uploading information online while celebrating various festivals.

The association also said that the decline in the number of students attending schools from two days before the holidays of Bihu, Puja and Eid to two days after the holidays also hampered the continuation of the educational curriculum. The union leadership also alleged that the government employs teachers in various other jobs besides these jobs.

Teachers are also entrusted with various responsibilities for district-level district day celebrations or other such programmes. In such a situation, the environment for students to get real education has disappeared, the organisation alleged. The Assam State Primary Teachers' Association has sent a memorandum to the Education Minister on November 25 to free the child students from this challenge faced by the primary sector and provide them with the opportunity to teach on the basis of the curriculum as per the prescribed academic calendar. The conference has requested the education minister to give them an opportunity to teach on the basis of selected syllabus. Nath, president and general secretary of the Teachers' Association, Goswami, urged the education minister to say in the memorandum: "There are two stages of the teaching process, one for education to study and the other for learning.

In the interest of taking forward the learners who have learned to study by protecting the path-based studies, I appeal to them to think of exempting primary schools from various celebration-centric activities organized after the festival and providing them with opportunities for teaching on a course-based basis. It is to be noted that a similar situation has been created at the secondary level in addition to the primary education sector. Naturally, the increase in celebrations has brought the ultimate challenge to the educational sector in the state.