The Chandigarh Aided College Teachers’ Association (CACTA) has determined to hold an enormous protest Saturday outdoors the Senate assembly Hall of Panjab University (PU) to showcase the dissatisfaction over the implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 with out taking college members into confidence.
A Senate assembly is scheduled to be held on Saturday. Crucial choices together with the implementation of NEP 2020 are anticipated to be taken within the assembly.
Meanwhile, the chief members of CACTA condemned the PU authorities over the abrupt implementation of the coverage in affiliated schools and for taking “unlucky choices” on this regard with out making an allowance for the Board of Governance and numerous college members from schools.
CACTA president Dr Kulvinder Singh stated it was stunning that dictatorial and utterly biased choices have been being undertaken by the PU authorities in implementing NEP 2020, whereas holding affiliated schools at midnight. This, he stated, compelled them to take such an excessive choice.
Dr Singh stated, “Colleges may have to face many difficulties in transferring to the brand new system if PU authorities proceed to transfer forward with the abrupt choices. We are extremely apprehensive that the reshuffling or change within the instructing load…could lead to an unprecedented disaster in schools.
CACTA secretary Dr Amitabh Dwivedi stated they requested the PU authorities, members of assorted our bodies and senators a number of occasions to critically contemplate and look at the modifications (subject-wise and curriculum-wise) earlier than proposing and getting them applied within the schools. “Many ill-conceived choices which might be being taken could cause points within the instructing load and create unwarranted penalties,” he identified.
Dr Sumit Goklaney, president of DAV College Teachers’ Union, stated that together with the everlasting college members, many ad-hoc (short-term) teachers are additionally instructing in schools. “We humbly request the PU authorities to both hold again and droop the choice of implementation of NEP in the meanwhile, no less than for the present session, within the schools so as to get them absolutely ready in each facet. Or they will contemplate the considerations and recommendations for applicable implementation of NEP in its true spirit and sense,” he stated.
