Schools in Bengal

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b)The aided school runs with the salary deficit scheme.They did not enjoy earned leave,yearly tour allowance,flat allotment, transfer etc.The examination conducted by the WBSSC.

Yearly tour allowance….. May i know what is it?
As far as my knowledge goes WB govt employees get Leave Travel Allowance once in service life.

Both aided and sponsored schools get govt. fund for their maintenance and/or infrastructural development and, disbursement of pay & allowances of teaching and non-teaching staffs. ROPA rules cover both aided and sponsored schools.
Basic difference is that sponsored schools received fund from the govt. for foundation and construction of school building as well as for development of initial infrastructure in sometime past. Such aids were never there for aided schools which was constructed and developed exclusively under financial assistance of any individual/ pvt. company/trustee etc.
Moreover, there is at least one govt. nominee in the MCs of the sponsored schools. This is not the case with aided schools.
I agree the teachers of non-govt. educational institutions enjoy liberty for filing nominations in political contests/elections and gain power if elected by the public. But they are very few in number compared to whole teacher community. They are not liable to be transferred. In that sense the teachers and non-teaching staffs are in advantageous positions though they have no EL, CCL (at present) etc. They are at par with govt. teachers in respect of pay & allowances, gratuity, pensionary benefits etc.
LTC is given to govt. teachers once in the service career and, that too, during last two years before superannuation.

Dear members,
I have seen some newspaper reporting on the new education policy of the govt. which can be summarised as follows:
Central Govt. launched Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) in March, 2009 with the objectives of universalisation of secondary education of good quality, accessible and affordable to all young persons in the age group 15-16 years. The intention is to increase the gross enrolment rate (GER) from the existing 52% to 75% in secondary education and from 40% to 65% in senior secondary levels by year 2014. The Central Govt. distributes RMSA funds to government schools. These are used for expansion of infrastructure, improvement of classrooms and assisting states in publicity drives for education. The fund-sharing arrangement between the Centre and the States is 75:25. For the North- East States, the ratio is 90:10.
Major targets of RMSA scheme include (a) strengthening of 44,000 existing secondary schools, (b) opening of 11,188 secondary schools, mostly through upgradation of upper primary schools, (c) appointment of 1.79 lakh additional teachers, and (d) construction of 80,500 additional classrooms.
Since the target of the scheme is to expand good quality secondary education by releasing fund to the existing government schools only, it is now facing challenges due to the absence of sufficient government schools in many states. So, the success of the scheme is now dependent on private schools. In our country, 60%t schools which offer class VI-VIII are private. There are only 37% govt. schools which have classes IX and above. States like West Bengal and UP with a low proportion of Government schools in secondary sector are not able get an equitable share of RMSA funds. Therefore, the Ministry of Human resource and Development has decided to alter its RMSA scheme only for WB for the sake of universalisation of secondary education. Instead of funding all government schools which are less than two percent in the state the Ministry will now select and fund non-govt. aided schools in WB. Although state officials are not happy with this decision of the Centre, the Ministry has decided to go ahead with the plan finally.
Now my queries are:
(1) Is the RMSA scheme similar to the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan?
(2) What is the percentage of state govt. schools in WB?
(3) Why are the state officials unhappy with the decision of the Central Govt. who wants to distribute RMSA fund to the aided schools to achieve the goal of the scheme? Otherwise, WB will be far behind compared to other states regarding progress of secondary education due to non-availability of adequate fund from the Centre!
(4) Whether the private schools in WB are also considered by the Centre for getting RMSA fund?

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Now my queries are:
(1) Is the RMSA scheme similar to the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan?
(2) What is the percentage of state govt. schools in WB?
(3) Why are the state officials unhappy with the decision of the Central Govt. who wants to distribute RMSA fund to the aided schools to achieve the goal of the scheme? Otherwise, WB will be far behind compared to other states regarding progress of secondary education due to non-availability of adequate fund from the Centre!
(4) Whether the private schools in WB are also considered by the Centre for getting RMSA fund?

Possible answers:
(1)The RMSA works much on the lines of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan that promotes primary school enrolment rate in India.
(2) There are only 42 state govt. schools in WB. The number is insignificant comapred to aided/sponsored schools. Percentage not known to me.
(3) Probably the state officials are under some obligations of financial rules of the state. But, there should be some way out for proper implementation of the scheme to achieve goal.
(4) Private schools i.e. non-govt. non-aided are not eligible to get RMSA fund. This will only be available to govt. and aided/sponsored schools in WB.

(1) What is the prospect of govt. teachers in their service!
(2) Whether there is any provision for service continuation when a teacher of aided/sponsored school resigns and, joins a College as a Lecturer on the basis recommendation of of College Service Commission?
(3) What about his past service if a teacher of govt. school joins a govt. college through PSC and, if he joins an aided college through CSC?

(1) As far as I know the H.M.s of govt. school have prospect to reach the stage of Dy./Jt./Addl./Director of School Education and Board Secretary/President. I don’t know about the prospect of AMs in govt. school. Probably they are same as ATs. of aided school.
(2) Service continuation is allowed when an AT of aided/sponsored school joins aided colleges through CSC. But it is not possible when he/she joins any govt. college.
(3) A govt. school teacher gets service benefits when he/she joins a govt. college through PSC selection. But such facilities are not available when he/she joins an aided college through SSC. That is to say service continuation is admissible for change of service from aided/sponsored school to aided college and, from govt. school to govt. college. Not permissible change over job from non-govt. to govt.