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Sonia
concerned over teacher absenteeism in rural areas
Wednesday, September 08, 2010 02:13:14 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi Wednesday
expressed concern over teacher absenteeism in government schools
in rural areas and said they should strive to reach the level of
the state-run Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs).
"Why are other government schools not as good? One-fourth the
teachers in 10+2 rural schools remain absent. Admissions take
place in good numbers but children who leave studies midway are
sizeable," she said at a function here, launching 31 new JNV
buildings across the country via video conferencing.
Sonia Gandhi said education in these JNVs, which are residential
schools from Class 6-12, should meet the requirements of the
changing times.
She said the JNVs had been largely successful in attaining their
objectives of providing good quality education to talented
children from predominantly rural areas.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said 593 JNVs have
been opened in the country since 1985-86 when two such schools
started functioning.
He said JNVs had their origin in the National Education Policy of
1986.
The JNVs that were inaugurated Wednesday are spread across various
states, including Mizoram, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh,
Meghalaya, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Haryana.
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