The benefits of Rationalization Policy are i Bigger schools ii Better infrastructure and conducive e...........

Economic and Social Issues Liberalization, Privatization and Globalisation

Punjab Education Department has introduced a new ‘Cluster System’ as part of their policy to overcome the challenge of shortage of teachers’ in rural areas. According to a media report, the Education Department of Punjab Government’s new ‘Cluster System’ allows school principals to rationalize the teaching staff as per the requirement fo the schools. The system will be applied to respective cluster and teachers can be realloted for teaching duties within it. The decision was announced by Secretary School Education, Krishan Kumar on Wednesday – 12th September 2019. Principals of Government Schools in Punjab will be deemed as cluster incharge and will be responsible to ensure adequate availability of the teaching staff in the schools. The Education Department has already issued order with regards to the implementation of new Cluster System to all heads of schools in the state. The decision to implement the new ‘Cluster System’ for Government Schools in the wake of acute shortage of teachers in rural areas. As per reports, a few schools in rural areas have only 1 or 2 teachers, while schools in other areas have surplus staff. To balance this disparity, Education Department has decided to implement the Cluster Scheme under which school principals will be able to balance and rationalize the students-teacher ratio.

The benefits of Rationalization Policy are:

i Bigger schools

ii Better infrastructure and conducive environment

iii Better governance

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i. and ii only

ii and iii only

i. and iii only

all of the above

None of these

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Explanation:

Benefits of rationalization policy are

•Bigger schools: It is claimed that one big school is better than two smaller schools; bigger schools provide a wider range of curricular and extracurricular offerings.

•Better infrastructure and conducive environment: It will enable provisioning of better infrastructure facilities and enable targeted improvements in learning levels.

Sports programs and extracurricular activities flourish in consolidated schools because of combined funding.

•Better governance: It can be a tool for improving governance and efficiency in public schools.