Teachers meet stresses on NCC, NSS

Allahabad: The two-day 59th regional conference of UP Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh, an association of teachers of secondary schools affiliated to UP Board, started here on Friday in which they demanded increasing the annual spending on education sector. The teachers also stressed on making the NCC and NSS training mandatory at schools.
Addressing the gathering, joint director, education directorate, Mahendra Kumar Singh said in the digital era, every day new innovations are taking place in the IT sector across the globe but the state education system lags behind in the race.
"Our students need to act locally with an eye on global developments and for this it is essential that secondary education system should also address the changing trend," Singh said. State president, UPMSS, Jagdish Pandey called for common education system (CES) across the country.
State government is copying CBSE in preparing UP Board syllabus, regularising schedule among others policies but it is not understandable as to why it is not opting for common education system.
Centralisation of the education system would help the students most as they will be able to learn the same thing their counterpart in Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai are learning, added Pandey. MLA Anugrah Narayan Singh also spoke on the reforming the education system. The conference would end on Saturday.