Click to play videoPune: Eight-year-old Aniket studied in a municipal school in Pune. He scored a C grade in his last exam and his poor standing in the class now has his parents worried. They believe Aniket needs more attention than a normal student in a class of 40 students.
Aniket's parents have now approached the schools's parents committee. Here, parents and guardians discuss not just the students performance in school but also the focus is on the teachers capabilities.
Suggestions given by parents are then recorded by the Pune Municipal Education Board to decide the increment for teachers.
In a latest suggestion made by the committee and approved by the education board, about 5,000 PMC teachers in over 300 PMC schools across Pune will now be rated through the parents committee.
This programme was started after a survey indicated that 80 per cent students between the 1st and the 7th Standard performed below average in a surprise test conducted by PMC's education department.
PMC Commissioner, Praveen Sinh Pardeshi says, "If the Palak Samitee says that some teacher is not doing well enough, then we will take steps to rectify the problem."
Till now, PMC's education department has blocked salaries of 15 teachers who are not up to the standards of teaching that the parents and the board expect out of them.
The PMC now hopes to change the quality of education in municipal run schools through this initiative, but the success of this programme will depend largely on how much interest parents show in their child's education.
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