Centre mulling to relieve teachers from poll duty: MoS HRD

Union Minister of State (MoS) for Human Resource Development Ram Shankar Katheria on Thursday said the Centre was mulling to relieve government school teachers from non-academic assignments such as election duty etc, in order to improve the quality of education. 

He said deliberations are on to find out a solution so that teachers are not occupied in such non-academic work,  which adversely affects the education of children.

"School teachers are given election and Census data collection duties. They are also given assignments for implementing various schemes. Our government has taken up this issue. We are doing deliberations to find out a solution," said Katheria, who was here for the 19th Nirma International Conference on Management.

He further stated that the government also wanted to make sure that the teachers focused only on imparting education.