Punjab Decides to Take Action Against These Teachers

The Punjab School Education Department has made a stiff decision of punishing the teacher whose names were not available on the TNA (Training Needs Assessment) test conducted.

As sources claim, the teachers that refused to attend the test will be evaluated without any direct measurement. The department will instead evaluate the performance in academics of their students. In a case where the students turn up badly, corresponding disciplinary action will be forwarded to the concerned teachers.

Punjab has about 300,000 teachers in the state-run schools. Nonetheless, a mere 10 percent of them is said to have taken the TNA test. The department had earlier scrapped the assessment owing to teacher boycott which was persistent.

Officials, in their turn, have already chosen a different strategy. They shall not be directly testing the teachers anymore, but instead they shall have to test their students when schools will resume on the 15 th of August.

The move has seen many teachers object saying that they had already been recruited by competing in exams. They claim that they deserve not to be judged in regard to performance by way of further testing.

The department stands to its decision of applying the new type of evaluation despite the criticism.