AGARTALA, July 26 (TIWN): Tripura Left front government at last managed to open a Teachers’ Training Institution towards offering quality teachers in government schools where according to guardians the quality of the education has come down. The guardians claimed that the state government had recruited teachers on non-merit basis.

The teachers training institution is opened amidst private tuition controversy which has brought the guardians and the students in streets who are on a spree legalising the private tuition by the school teachers.

Education minister Tapan Chakroborty said that the institution is being opened with an aim to increase the pass percentage of the students which has improved as compared to the previous years. He also said the state education department is eyeing forward to rest the figure of the pass percentage at 100 per cent.

He said quality of teachers and their skills would take the education system in schools and colleges at a standard level which would further enhance the power of students. At present a total of 8 lakhs children are studying at more than 4000 government schools here in the state, Chakroborty said.

Adding to that he said, “The institution opened at Kumarghat would empower the teachers with better teaching skills.” He then assured the two such institutions at Agartala and Kumarghat is aimed to train at least 250 teachers in a year.

However, it is worthy to mention here that just in wake of the private tuition controversy the state guardians forum has criticised the state government for not recruiting the teachers in the government schools on merit basis as a result the students are bound to rush to the private tutors.

The High Court which passed its interim order and banned the private tution is scheduled to hear the plea of guardians’ forum on August 6.

The guardians claimed that they are not against the ban of private tuition but the students are bound to go the private tutors as the teachers inducted in government schools are not recruited in merit basis, but they are also in opinion that the quality education in schools has come down due to irregular classes.

The guardians also claimed that the private tuitions had so far offered better guidance to students towards scoring well in the entrance examinations.