eacher availability improving elementary education: Smriti

The additional recruitment of teachers has improved the pupil-teacher ratio in government schools, and this has improved elementary education, parliament was told on Monday. ‘Teacher availability in elementary education has improved with the additional recruitment of 15.06 lakh teachers funded under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan programme,’ human resource development minister Smriti Irani told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply. ‘The national pupil teacher ratio in government and government-aided schools is 28:1 at primary, 31:1 at upper primary and 34:1 at secondary level,’ she added. Over 25 crore children are enrolled in classes 1 to 12 in the country, said Irani.