Summer break for kids starts tmrw, but there's work for govt teachers

GURGAON: The Haryana board has announced summer vacation for the students from June 1 to July 3. However, the 33-day-long break doesn't seem to be relieving for the teachers, who will be engaged in different academic and non-academic activities throughout the vacation.
The primary school teachers will be called for the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy and Nipun application training sessions.The application is being rolled out for teachers in the second phase after being launched for the block resource coordinators and assistant block resource coordinators.
Additionally, teachers from classes 1 to 12 have been engaged in collecting and updating the data for the family identity cards, which the government has mandated everywhere including college admissions and job entrance exams.
Also, for students who have performed below average in classes 10 and 12, their teachers have been asked to join the performance improvement training, which will begin next week.
The staff, however, is objecting to the idea of utilising summer breaks for these tasks. Wazir Dalal, head of a cluster of 19 schools in Jind, told TOI, "The teachers have been called for a six-day training to improve their performance at schools and they are against the department ruining their vacation. I have been receiving complaints from multiple teachers to relieve them from such exercises."
They are being pressured to finish the job at the earliest and the grievance redressal system of the government is poor, leading to submission of wrong or incomplete data, Dalal said.
The teachers also put forward their woes to the chief minister at his Jan Samvad, but to no avail. Education minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar had announced that the teachers would not be engaged in any non-academic job.
Furthermore, educators at colleges and polytechnics are being engaged in socio-economic surveys to increase the Gross Enrollment Ratio at the colleges.