Karnataka - Gulbarga   

SDMCs will stay, says committee

Special Correspondent

`Attempt will be made to strengthen, streamline them'

GULBARGA: L. Hanumanthappa, chairman of the Legislature Committee to go into the complaints of teachers against the functioning of School Development and Monitoring Committees, has said that SDMCs will not be abolished. Addressing presspersons here, he said that instead a serious attempt would be made to strengthen and streamline the functioning of the SDMCs.

Mr. Hanumanthappa along with other members of the committee, M. Nadagouda, H.S. Shivashankar, S.M. Anand, and Marutibegowda, conducted a public hearing on the functioning of the SDMCs and heard the pleas of the representatives of teachers and the SDMC members. The committee completed its sitting in Mysore and Gulbarga divisions and will hold a sitting in Bangalore and central Karnataka before submitting its report before June 20 to the Chairman of the Legislative Council.

Mr. Hanumanthappa said Karnataka was a pioneer in introduction of the system to develop and monitor schools through SDMCs and involving parents in the effective functioning of the schools.

He said the general complaint of teachers was that there were increasing incidents of harassment from the SDMC members, particularly to lady teachers, owing to the power given to the SDMC to monitor the attendance and sanctioning of the leave to the teachers. They wanted the powers of sanctioning leave and monitoring the attendance taken away from the SDMC.

On the alleged harassment of lady teachers by SDMC members, he said that the committee would suggest to the Government to ensure that at least 50 per cent of the SDMC members were women. There was also demand from the teaching community that they be absolved of the financial responsibility of the schools and the SDMC chairman should be solely responsible for all the financial dealings.

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