All Male Staff will be Removed from Kasturba Schools in Uttar Pradesh

• 28 Apr 2023

Why in News?

According to information received from media sources on April 27, 2023, all the male staff currently working in 746 Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls Schools operating across the state will be removed.

Key Points

• Uttar Pradesh Director General of School Education and State Project Director of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan Vijay Kiran Anand has issued a letter to all the District Magistrates of the state, ordering them not to renew teaching/non-teaching male personnel.
• This step of Uttar Pradesh school education has been taken in view of the safety of girl students studying in classes six to eight in Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls Schools with residential facilities.
• It is known that in the Ministry of Education, the Joint Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy had written a letter on October 12, 2022, giving instructions to appoint only women personnel to all posts in Kasturba Gandhi Schools. In this sequence, instructions have been given not to renew the male staff in the 2023-24 academic session and to appoint only women to the vacant posts.
• In Kasturba Gandhi Schools, all the personnel from the warden to the watchman are hired on contract basis. Except Kanpur Nagar and Auraiya districts in the state, one Kasturba school is running in each development block of all the districts.
• More than one thousand male staff are expected to be affected by the order for renewal of only female personnel in Kasturba Gandhi Vidyalayas.
• Most of the accountants and watchmen in 746 schools across the state are men. In some places the teachers are also men. In such a situation, even if we estimate two male personnel on each school, then around one and a half thousand staff will be affected.