BANGALORE: Legal issues are coming in the way of filling vacancies in government schools, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Basavaraj Horatti said on Friday.

In one such case a stay order was brought against recruitment by a disabled person demanding reservation for the handicapped, Mr. Horatti said.

He was speaking at a function where he received CDs on computer-aided learning of Science and Mathematics to be used in government schools.

Process

He said the State Government was serious about filling all the vacant posts and was initiating the process.

The State Government was coming out with a blueprint of `Plan 2010' that would look into the problems affecting the quality of education in the State. The plan would stress on computer-based learning of subjects.

It would also provide for initiating the process of recruitment by considering the number of posts that would become vacant in the future. "We will be the second State after Kerala to prepare such a plan," he said.

Commissioner for Public Instruction M. Madan Gopal said a base line study of assessing the quality of education in second and fifth standards had been completed.

Academic excellence

The plan would specify the level of academic excellence that the schools needed to reach.

Earlier, Kumar Malavalli of Edurite Technologies, which brought out the CDs, presented Mr. Horatti 10,000 CDs for use by students from fourth to eighth standards.

These CDs will be used by the government in 1,000 schools.

The animation-based content in the CDs would help students in understanding science and mathematics concepts easily. "We have also provided an option for revising the content in case of change in the syllabus," Mr. Malavalli added.

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