Gujarat: Teachers To Be Brought to Books

India has spent $94 billion on basic education, however the result of the evaluation of teachers of government run schools are downright disheartening and rather shameful. In Maharashtra only 1% of more than 245, 800 teachers who were evaluated in the primary level could clear the test. The upper primary did a wee bit better with 4.9% clearing the test.

Despite spending such a hefty amount on training the primary education during the last decade the quality of teachers still remains the key reason for the decline in children education. Added to this is also sheer negligence in the part of teachers while evaluating the answer sheet of students appearing for their class 10 and 12^th board exams. Gujarat government has made a strict announcement for naming and shaming those teachers who have been found to have committed serious mistakes while evaluating the answer sheets of the 10^th and the 12^th class board exam.

In the last Academic year The Gujarat State Higher Secondary Teachers Federation (GSHSTF) had also fined 7000 teachers who had made a mistake while evaluating the answer sheet. Now the Gujarat government has decided to publish in its monthly educational journal names of the 6000 teachers who were found to have committed errors while evaluating the answer sheets of students appearing for the 10^th and the 12^th board exams. Needless to say these kinds of errors make it difficult to announce results on time and this news of wrong evaluation does impact the psychology of the young students who had appeared for the exam.

By: Madhuchanda Saxena

Content: https://indianexpress.com/article/education/gujarat-to-name-and-shame-teachers-for-mistakes-in-school-test-evaluation-5294907/