It is a good news that the Jammu and Kashmir government is mulling introducing a procedure wherein the promotion of teachers, masters, lecturers, administrators and officers in the School Education Department Jammu and Kashmir shall be done via examination base. if this proposal is once introduced, the procedure will change the decade-long scheme of promotions in the education department, which is entirely based on seniority of service and minimum acquired qualifications.
There is immense need of major change in education sector since the old age plane of promotion in education department not only pleased Govt official and the Education Department with things that have taken place with promotions of teachers, administrators, and officers in the department. And the kind of result is shown by teachers in Jammu and Kashmir.
It is observed that scores of teachers, masters, lecturers and officials are not giving a positive result, impacting the education level in Jammu and Kashmir. Keeping in views all facts and figures This is good thing that Govt of Jammu and Kashmir is conducting exam -based promotions in Education Department. There are several factors behind bringing this procedure to the Jammu and Kashmir Education Department like in order to streamline the education department and change the old tradition of promoting teachers merely on the seniority of service which is time consuming.
Another factors is the other is that several Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers (appointed under RTE Act) were 12th pass when they were inducted into the teaching profession. But, over time, they were promoted to higher positions, even though their performance remains below par which in turn I think affected education in Jammu and Kashmir. Same goes with other teachers, master, lecturers, who no doubt are well qualified. But they have failed to set a benchmark in their teaching career, which the people is unwilling to tolerate at any level.
Last but not least if the government is serious about the quality of education in schools, it is inevitable to reform the present promotion mechanism in the department. In the absence of this reform, every step whatsoever taken by the government will yield no results as is evident from the present scenario shown by surveys and data, already available in the public domain.
This mechanism can be akin to the departmental examination system for every promotion as being practiced by the central school systems like Kendriya/Navodya Vidhyalas, most of the educationally forward states/UTs like Kerala, Mizoram, Chandigarh, Haryana, etc. The scheme for such a system can be copied from any of the above systems/states with local modifications, wherever required. I would finally like to suggest that the scheme of departmental examination-based promotions for the elevation of teachers, masters, lecturers, administrators, and officers in our department will go a long way in promoting talent, quality, and efficiency of human resources in our department.
The present scheme of promotions, entirely based on seniority of service and minimum acquired qualifications, has not only degraded the quality of a teaching-learning process in our schools, but it has also downgraded the morale of competent and capable teachers to the bottom,” the memorandum read.