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NDMC to tie up with NIIT

Manisha Jha

For outsourcing the computer teaching faculty in its schools

High attrition rate among contractual computer education teachers in NDMC schools
Outsourcing would aid in maintaining regularity and continuity of computer teaching faculty

NEW DELHI: To tackle the long pending issue of high attrition rate of contractual computer education teachers in New Delhi Municipal Council schools, the civic body has decided to enter into a tie-up with NIIT for outsourcing the computer teaching faculty in its schools. In addition, the civic body has also decided to outsource computer hardware procurement and maintenance to NIIT.

According to the civic body, outsourcing the recruitment of teachers would aid in maintaining regularity and continuity of the computer teaching faculty and also help improve academic results and ensure smooth running of teachers training programmes in schools.

Four year contract

As per the NDMC, this contract would be for four years and include the outsourcing of nine post-graduate teachers and 29 trained graduate teachers in 29 schools to NIIT.

The contract which would cost the civic body Rs.3.5 crore and would also include outsourcing of computer hardware to NIIT in nine schools.

An NDMC official said: “We handed over the letter of award to NIIT last week and though there is time in inking of the memorandum of understanding we expect that the contract’s operationalisation would begin this week.”

Elaborating on the idea behind the tie-up, the NDMC official said: “The main rationale of entering into this tie-up was to put an end to the discontinuity faced in providing computer education to school children. The teachers recruited through the contractual system of appointment would leave for better job opportunities in three to six months resulting in repetition of the long drawn selection procedure again.”

New computer labs

“Moreover though eight new computer labs had been provided in our various schools, they had to remain closed as they were no computer teachers. The Intel training programmes started for teachers also had to be discontinued for the same reason,” he added.

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