Arunachal to Mark Schools as ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’

• 23 Dec 2019

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Arunachal Pradesh has launched Teachers’ Transfer & Posting Policy, 2020, for ensuring need-based distribution of teachers to protect the academic interest of students and optimise job satisfaction among the teachers in a free and transparent manner.

Key Points

• Categorisation of Schools:
  
  • Under the policy, all government schools will be divided into three categories — hard, medium and soft — based on topography, accessibility and degrees of difficulty in staying at the place of posting.
    
    • Hard Schools:
      
      • It includes areas with difficult accessibility and topography.
      • All new recruits will be given a hard posting for a mandatory three years, inclusive of their probation period.
    • Medium Schools:
      
      • It includes areas with medium accessibility, connectivity and topography.
      • After completing hard schools phase the new teachers will be spending the next five years in schools with levels of medium difficulty.
    • Soft Schools:
      
      • It includes areas with easy accessibility and connectivity majorly urban areas.
      • After completing hard and medium schools phase the teachers will be allotted soft schools.
• Motto of the scheme:
  
  • Teacher absenteeism has been a major issue across government schools in Arunachal Pradesh. The student-teacher ratio has consequently been skewed in favour of urban centres with better connectivity.
    
    • The state has been facing difficulties in posting teachers in remote areas where schools have adequate students, but hardly anyone to teach them.
• The policy also entails the transfer of teachers through online requests.

Source: TH