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The government’s determination to transportation the functions and co-ordination powers of the Deputy Directors of Pre-University of (DDPUs) of School Education Department (Pre-Univeristy) astatine territory level, to the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Zilla Panchyath has been powerfully opposed by lecturers, principals and different unit of authorities PU colleges.
Alleging that the autonomy of the Department volition beryllium affected by this move, the Karnataka State Pre-University College Lecturers’ Association has written to the School Education Minister, the Chief Secretary, the Principal Secretary of the Department and others, demanding withdrawal of the proposal. They are readying to clasp a gathering connected March 8 to program the adjacent people of action.
Proposal submitted
The Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) precocious submitted a connection to the Finance Department (FD) to transportation definite administrative, disciplinary, financial, and coordination powers to the ZP CEOs, with the stated purpose of efficaciously and transparently pursuing the principles of decentralised administration.
If this connection is approved, each functions of DDPUs volition beryllium transferred to ZP CEOs.
“The Pre-University acquisition System is an important acquisition stage, which acts arsenic a span betwixt schoolhouse acquisition and higher education. The administrative functions of PU acquisition were handled wrong the schoolhouse acquisition system. However, implicit time, the scope of PU education, the fig of students, the diverseness of education, and the responsibilities of administrators person accrued significantly, prompting the authorities to make a abstracted directorate and found DD offices astatine the territory level. However, this established autonomy is not conscionable an administrative change; it is the instauration of the autarkic world individuality and show of PU education,” reads the missive by the Pre-University College Lecturers’ Association, opposing the move.
Further, it stated that the connection to transportation the administrative power of the DDPUs to ZP CEOs is not conscionable a wide administrative change; it is simply a superior structural involution affecting the precise cardinal principles of the acquisition medication system. At present, the DDPUs are functioning efficaciously wrong a coordinated, clear, and continuous administrative strategy nether the administrative guidance of the manager and associated directors of the department.
“Adding a caller level of power successful the midst of this unchangeable and balanced administrative effort not lone blurs the boundaries of authority, confuses the determination of responsibility, reduces the clarity of functioning, but besides risks weakening coordination wrong the system,” it said.
Concerns of lecturers
Speaking to The Hindu, Ningegowda A.H., president, Karnataka State Pre-University College Lecturers’ Association, said, “The PU introspection strategy has already been separated from the section and has been merged with the Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board. Now, the authorities is moving to abolish the DDPU posts by handing implicit the powers to the ZP CEOs. The officials person taken this determination unilaterally without discussing it with the principals of PU colleges, lectures and immoderate different stakeholders,” helium said, adding that it volition pb to “collapse of a well-functioning system”.
