Notify northern districts in TN as educationally backward: Ramadoss
"Around 72 percent of vacant teacher posts in government schools are in northern districts. This is shocking," the PMK founder said and called for the revival of the district-wise appointment system.
CHENNAI: PMK founder S Ramadoss on Sunday highlighted that there are more than ten thousand vacant government school teacher posts in the state, quoting data released by the Tamil Nadu school education department.
"Around 72 percent of teacher vacanciesare in northern districts. This is shocking. But Chennai, Perambalur, Madurai, Theni, Dindigul, Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Thoothukudi, and Kanyakumari have no vacancies. Except for Chennai and Perambalur, the other eight districts are southern districts. These districts are always at the top when it comes to pass percentage in board exams while the northern ones are in the last position," he said.
Calling upon the state government to fulfill its responsibility of treating each of the 38 districts equally, Ramadoss urged it to announce the northern districts as educationally backward districts. "Unless these discrepancies are resolved, the government cannot uplift the quality of education of northern districts. It is due to the social justice policies of the government that graduates in northern districts could get jobs," he pointed out.
The PMK leader also attributed the rise in teacher vacancies to the implementation of the state-wise appointment process by removing the district-wise appointment system.
"A majority of teachers are from southern districts and they get transfers to their native districts even though they are initially posted to northern districts," Ramadoss said.
He urged the state government to implement the district-wise teacher appointment system again as teachers belonging to a particular district will not go to other districts by transfer if they get appointed in their native districts.
(Inputs from Online Desk)
