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Confusion over KV circular

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM SEPT. 20. Even as confusion is continuing on the circular authorising students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan (KVS) to assess the performance of the teachers, the school authorities have set in motion the process for enforcing it from next month.

While there are unconfirmed reports that the Ministry of Human Resource Development has decided to put on hold the office memorandum dated August 6 on inclusion of Article 81 (e) in the Education Code of KVS, the school authorities are making arrangements to enforce the new assessment system.

KVS has around 850 schools spread over the country with a teachers strength of 40,000. As per the new rule, students from class V onwards can assess the teachers twice a year--in October and February--with a single question--whether the teacher is very good, good or bad on a ballot paper.

Interestingly, the students need not write their names or roll numbers. If 40 to 60 per cent or more assess a teacher as bad at teaching, the teacher concerned will get a show-cause notice asking him or her to explain within a stipulated period as to why his or her services should not be terminated.

The assessment is also applicable for non-teaching employees with whom the students have interaction. The new clause apparently demoralised the teaching community who are up in arms against its implementation.

"We are also hearing about dropping of the clause. So far we have not received any official communique. Hence, as of today, the new rule is going to be enforced from next month,'' the Principal of Kendriya Vidyalaya-II, Sri Vijayanagar, G.S.N. Reddy, told The Hindu on Saturday.

The All India Kendriya Vidyalaya Teachers' Association has taken up the issue at the highest level in Delhi. "The new rule has come as a bolt from the blue for the teachers at a time when they are being held accountable for the results. It also has the scope for misuse by the principals or managing committee members as the students need not write their names or roll numbers,'' the association's Hyderabad region general secretary, M. Murali Krishna, said.

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