Govt to constitute the Education Commission within a month’s time: Rakkam

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMarch 27, 2023

Minister in-charge Education Rakkam A Sangma on Monday informed that the Education Commission will be constituted within a month’s time. 

“The search committee is already in the process…It will be very difficult to give the timeline but maximum within one month (it will be constituted),” Sangma said in his reply to a supplementary query raised by VPP legislator from Nongkrem Ardent M Basaiawmoit in the Assembly. 

He informed that the Education Commission will have a functional structure consisting of core members who are experts in the field, including reputed and experienced academician, an expert from management and educational planning. 

The minister said that the fundamental objectives of the Education Commission will be to advise and recommends the government of Meghalaya on matter relating to the school system salary and school structure, school management functioning and accountability. 

It will produce concrete solutions and strategic recommendation for ushering reforms in the school system from the perspective of NEP 2020 and fulfilling its various principles and articulations.

Also highlighting the broad roles and responsibilities of the commission, Sangma said the commission will look into the major issues that are impacting the education sector in Meghalaya on matter relating to management of aided schools, their performance concerning general school functioning, activeness, operation and accountability of SMCs, consolidation of the different categories of aided schools and system for granting and or upgrading aided status of schools. 

The commission will also look into the establishment of effective mechanism to ensure pay parity with regards to the salaries of teachers under different aided categories, with respect to government teachers. 

It will also recommend to the government on the way forward for the issues pertaining to teachers under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, rationalization of schools especially with regards to unviable schools, surplus schools, low enrolment schools (zero enrolment/single digit enrolment), single teacher schools and the problems relating to availability of language teachers especially in border areas, study the existing situation, gaps, issues in depth, of the problem areas identified.

The commission will also be asked to put forward recommendations that will bring about long term and large scale improvements and solutions in the problem areas defined, formulate principles and guidelines that will streamline and improve the condition in the problem areas defined, recommend policy changes wherever applicable and create task force(s) for each of the problem area for research, analysis, implementation, monitoring and reporting etc.