Click to play videoNew Delhi: The government now wants two out of three teachers recruited to be from mathematics and science streams.
A NCERT report earlier this year on the state of education showed that 45 per cent of fifth grade students cannot perform simple numerical operations like addition and subtraction.
It also mentioned that 60 per cent students had problems dealing with fractions and decimals, while 47 per cent were found weak in environmental science.
The realisation that children are not getting their numbers right is setting in almost eight years after government kicked off Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, its flagship scheme to educate every one below the age of 14.
Under the changed guidelines, for every three teachers who will be recruited for a school, one will have to be proficient in mathematics and the other in science.
"We are trying to change the recruitment norms,” says MoS, HRS, MAA Fatmi.
The 11th five-year plan lays emphasis on creating a large pool of scientists and technocrats in the country over the next five years and for this purpose, plan allocation for higher education has also been increased by almost 8 to 9 times.
However, to make optimum utilisation of these allocations, the talent will have to be nurtured at the primary and secondary level, a realization, which is now evident in government policies.
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