Concerned over depleting strength of teachers by almost 50 per cent in government-aided schools in the national capital, the Delhi High Court today pulled up the Directorate of Education (DoE) for “completely failing” in its duty as a custodian of child education. <\/p>\n
\t“This is very sad and sorry state of affairs where DoE, who is custodian of child education, has completely failed in its duty,” a bench of Justice Hima Kohli said. <\/p>\n
\tObserving that government-aided schools cater to educational requirements of a large strata of the society, the court converted the writ petition into a PIL and directed the matter to be listed before an appropriate division bench on October 30. <\/p>\n
\tThe remarks came while perusing an affidavit filed by DoE, according to which there were 211 government-aided schools functioning under DoE and 1,64,706 students enrolled in these schools. <\/p>\n
\tIt further submits that against the total number of 8,882 vacancies in 2009-10, there was a total strength of only 4,770 teachers as on date. <\/p>\n
\t“As per section 25 of RTE act, the pupil-teacher ratio for primary section is 40 and for class VI to VIII, the same is 35. Accordingly, the pupil-teacher ratio in DoE in respect of aided school is 34.52 which is in the line of the RTE Act, 2009,” the affidavit said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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