23-02-23 Daily-Haryana-HPSC Current Affairs

Haryanaeducation department is considering a proposal to shut down all government high schools in the state and merge them with the government-run senior secondary schools. After this, Haryana will only have senior secondary, middle and primary schools. As of now, there are 1,032 government high schools in the state.

Sources added that the Haryana government may merge all primary schools into middle schools as its next step, creating a two-tier school system in the state.
If implemented, this would be the second major step taken by the Haryana government to bring changes in the states school Education department. In August last year, the BJP-JJP government merged a large number of middle and high schools with less than 20 students and 25 students, respectively, with the nearby available schools.

During the parliamentarybudgetsession, the Union Government informed the Rajya Sabha that around 292 government schools in Haryana were either closed or merged in 2022 because of poor numbers of students. The data was shared in response to a question asked byLt Gen D P Vats(Retd), a member of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana. Satpal Sindhu, president, Haryana School Lecturer Association (HSLA), said this would be a good move, especially in the distribution of work among the school lecturers as many of them are currently deployed in high schools TEACHING lower classes, whereas their job profile is to teach classes IX to XII.