The directorate of school Education has clarified that 183 schools across the state will now be merged and function as ‘single unit schools’, seeking to allay concerns about the shortage of teachers created by a general transfer drive.
More than 37,000 teachers across the state have been shifted under a mega government drive, attracting criticism that the move has left several schools with only a few or no teachers.
The clarification that the government issued about the shortage of teachers mentioned that the senior secondary schools would function as ‘master schools’ and the lower institutes would operate as its campuses. It said that the teachers had been transferred to these master schools.
For instance, the Government Girls Middle School (lower campus) in Garhi Harsaru has been merged with the senior secondary school (master school) in the same village. The teachers of both these schools will now be deemed as staff of the master school.