Months after the government issued an order to employ physical education teachers at government PU colleges that have over 500 students, no measures have been taken yet. According to the statistics from the department of pre-university education, there are only 20 physical education teachers across Karnataka.
This was revealed by the primary and secondary education minister, Tanveer Sait himself. There are more than 1,204 government PU colleges in the state and only 20 have physical education teachers. “We are not facing a shortage of physical education teachers at primary and high schools. The shortage is at PU colleges. It is true that we have only 20 physical education teachers across the state,” the minister said.
“Physical education teachers have not been recruited for several years. We are thinking of recruiting one physical education teacher to every 120 students,” said Sait.
According to the data, of the 20 teachers, only one is working at a government PU college. “Following the government order mandating the recruitment of physical education teachers at all colleges which have more than 250 students, we asked Deputy Directors to submit a report on the same. But, we have not got the report yet,” said a senior official of the department.
