PEAs set to become School Mothers again in 2013

GANGTOK, 30 Dec: Secretary, Human Resource Development Department [HRDD], CS Rao, while speaking to media-persons on 29 December informed that School Mothers will be transferred back to their respective schools from the 2013 academic session onwards as the pre-primary section is being resumed at government schools. The proposal has already been moved and the file put up by the Department sent for approval to the Chief Secretary’s office.
The kindergarten sections at pre-Primary level were closed in government schools in August 2010 and the School Mothers responsible for these classes shifted as Panchayat Education Assistants [PEA] to the Gram Prasashan Kendras [GPK]. The main reason for doing so was to achieve total literacy in every village of the state, the Secretary explained.
The PEAs were given a target to cover people who had left school at an early age and grown up illiterate. They were to be coached till they were able to at least read and write, Mr. Rao informed.
“The department is also planning certain changes in the education sector for which well trained teachers are to be recruited so that at least our students can secure a good percentage and be counted in the top ten of CBSE board throughout the country”, he added.