{"id":30347,"date":"2020-07-23T21:50:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30347"},"modified":"2020-07-23T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T16:20:13","slug":"its-official-over-16000-govt-teachers-in-jk-undergraduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30347","title":{"rendered":"Its official: Over 16,000 Govt teachers in JK \u2018Undergraduate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: At a time when the government is claiming to have taken steps to ensure quality education for the students, more than 16,000 teachers working in government-run-schools in Jammu and Kashmir are \u2018undergraduate\u2019\u2014taking a toll on the future of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the School Education Department, around 16,077 teachers have not a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figures were revealed by the Department of School Education and Literacy of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in a Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE)\u2014a copy of which lies with the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UDISE figures reveal, of total 107,445 teachers in the department, only 91,368 teachers have qualification above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of total teachers, 102,581 have been appointed on a regular basis while 4864 teachers are working on contractual basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UDISE report reads that from Srinagar district, a total of 4459 teachers are working in the department out of which only 407 teachers are not above graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly from South Kashmir\u2019s Kulgam district, of total 3759 teachers only 3492 have a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From South Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district, 7977 teachers are working in the department of which only 7258 have a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Shopian district, 2114 teachers are working in the department of school education of which only 1895 have a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district also has only 3989 teachers with above graduation while 4297 teachers are working in the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise, from Central Kashmir\u2019s Ganderbal district, only 2403 teachers working in government schools have a qualification of above graduation while the total of 2868 teachers are working in the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data reveals that from Central Kashmir\u2019s Budgam district, 6152 teachers are working in the department out of which only 5565 have a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UDISE report states that in north Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district, 9006 teachers have been recruited in the department of which only 8075 have a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, from the north Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district, only 3062 teachers out of 3407 have a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the frontier district Kupwara, the official figures reveal that 7976 teachers are working in the department of which only 6982 teachers have a qualification of above graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pertinently, the top officials at Samagra Shiksha informed KNO that the new and updated figures of UDISE will be updated in August end\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: At a time when the government is claiming to have taken steps to ensure quality education for the students, more than 16,000 teachers working in government-run-schools in Jammu and Kashmir are \u2018undergraduate\u2019\u2014taking a toll on the future of students. In the School Education Department, around 16,077 teachers have not a qualification of above graduation. 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