The Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) has now proposed to rationalise and restructure all teacher training institutes throughout Karnataka in accordance with National Education Policy (NEP)-2020.
This consists of discount of each educating and non-teaching staff by 25% at District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET), College of Teachers Education (CTE) and Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT). The Department has listed a complete of 228 educating and non-teaching staff as extra amongst 1,423 staff in all these establishments and submitted the proposal to the State authorities for redeployment. More crucially, the division has proposed to close down all six Government Teachers Training Institutions (GTTI).
While the division has argued that these institutes have decreased patronage and defended the restructuring and shutting down of GTTIs, the proposal has drawn the ire from a number of quarters.
Karnataka State Government Employees’ Association and Karnataka State BEOs’ Association have written to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai coming down closely on the restructuring proposal. “Reducing staff in DIETs, CTEs and DSERTs is not the solution. Shutting down any institution is definitely not welcomed. Instead, the government should strengthen all these institutions through providing proper infrastructure, faculty and offer new courses,” the letter mentioned.
“The GTTIs and other government institutions are the last resort for the rural, social and economically backward students for teacher training courses. Instead of reducing the staff and shutting them down, strengthening them is the need of the hour,” mentioned a college member of one of the GTTIs.
Developmental educationist Dr. V.P. Niranjanaradhya noticed a conspiracy to weaken the general public sector at hand over teacher schooling to personal gamers in the long term, behind the restructuring proposal. He additionally alleged that it will deny high quality schooling to marginalised youngsters as these establishments are sometimes the one out there establishments on the district degree to assist the educational facets of the federal government faculties on the block, cluster and college degree.
Proposal to close down GTTIs opposed
Pramoda Devi Wadeyar, from the erstwhile Mysuru royal household, has written to School Education and Literacy minister B.C. Nagesh, requesting him to not shut down GTTIs. The GTTI in Mysuru began in 1928, by the erstwhile kings of the Wadeyar household, is simply 5 years shy of celebrating its centenary. There are six GTTIs offering teacher schooling in Sindhanur, Dharwad, Kalaburgi, Mysore, Chikkanahalli and Hosadurga.
