In a recent development,it has been learned that a software has been developed to monitor vacancies for teachers. The software, which will use data from district information system for education and generate lists of vacancies of teachers subject-wise has been developed by the Human Resource Development Ministry on the RTE Act chaired by Kapil Sibal.
According to the reports, "The software will have potential to generate a list of under-served and over-served schools, create a vacancy database, generate a list of vacancies subject-wise and correct existing imbalances in teacher deployment."
The RTE Act fixes the teacher-student ratio at a maximum of 1:30, and also has special criteria for teachers regarding their qualification.It will also be sensitive to the needs of physically handicapped teachers, women teachers and other categories as prioritized by the state.In this meeting, it was discussed to make the local authorities the grievance redressal agencies and the state commissions for protection of child rights at the state level.