Algoritmos para la aplicación de reglas en arquitecturas secuenciales

A Block Education Extension Officer (BEEO) operates in each development Block. He is the most critical link in the chain for implementing and monitoring educational programmes at the Block level. Though in theory, he has responsibility for school education on the whole, due to the funding pattern and priority of the government, his time is devoted mostly to elementary education, His functions include collection of data, passing on government instructions to schools and organising regular meeting of the Head Teachers of primary and middle schools, which is popularly known as Guru Gosthi. In spite of these significant functions, the BEEO neither has an office of his own nor any staff member to assist him. He operates from the Block Resource Centre. The diagram below depicts the present structure of the field offices.

RDDE

DSE DEO DMEO

SDEO

AEO

BEEO

The above structure and functions of the field offices of the Department clearly bring out the irrationality and weaknesses of the existing system. It functions at far too many levels, involving avoidable overlaps and redundancy. It is also very weak at levels which should really matter. The system is in an urgent need of restructuring and reorganisation, which should be done on the following lines:-

b) There should be a unified district level educational set-up. Hence the present three district-level offices should be merged into a single office under a District Education Officer (DEO). He should be placed in the second rung of command at the District level. He should, therefore, be at a fairly senior level in the Bihar Education Service. He should be assisted by seven Assistant District Education Officers (ADEOs), dealing respectively with Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Teachers’ Education, Educational Surveys and Research, Mid-day Meals, Adult Literacy and Administration;

c) There is no need for the presence of the Department of Education either at the Sub-

Divisional or the Area level. The present offices at these levels should, therefore, be closed down;

d) Instead, the office at the Block level should be re-organized and strengthened. The

present BEEO should be redesignated as simply BEO. He should have properly manned and well-equipped office. He should be assisted by four ABEOs, dealing respectively with Elementary & Secondary Education; Teachers’ Education, Educational Surveys & Research; Mid-day Meals; and Adult Literacy and Administration.

The restructured field offices are depicted in the diagram below. It will be seen that it has only two levels instead of the present-5 level structure.

DEO

ADEO ADEO ADEO ADEO ADEO ADEO ADEO (Elementary (Secondary (Teachers’ (Educational Survey & (Mid-day Meals) (Adult (Administration) Education) Education) Education) Research) Literacy)

BEO

ABEO ABEO ABEO ABEO

(Elementary & Secondary (Teachers’ Education, (Mid-day Meals) (Adult Literacy and Education)

The field offices should not be involved in any school inspection work. They should confine themselves to their regulatory, supervisory and data-collection work. Teachers themselves should take over inspection work and should be organised and oriented for this purpose.

The officers’ level posts at the District office should be filled by officers of BES and at the Block level by officers of BES-II. The ABEOs should belong to the Subordinate Education Service (SES). Adequate number of supporting staff should be posted in the offices at the

District and Block levels. The staff strength will, of course, differ from district to district depending upon the area, population and educational programmes and projects being carried out there.

Opportunity should be provided to officials serving in different grades of the BES to rise to higher grades. For this purpose, 50% of posts in BES-II will be filled up directly from the combined competitive examination held by the Bihar Public Service Commission & the rest 50% of the posts of BES-II will be filled up by promotion from SES.

There is at present a post of “Inspectress of Schools” at the State level and one post of “ District Inspectress” in each district for the administration of girls education institutions namely i.e. girls schools and Primary Teachers Education Centres for women. The Commission regards this structure of inspection as irrational and anomalous. For, it does not make any sense to have an arrangement in place for inspecting only a small fragment of the entire school system. If inspections have to be made – and they must be made - it should be for the entire system. The Commission, therefore, is separately proposing the establishment of a system of “academic supervision”, a term which will replace the word “inspection”.

The Commission has not included informal education, mass education and adult education in the reorganized administrative structure for school education in Bihar. This is because these forms of education have no place in the Common School System. We have, however, provided for the post of an Additional District Education Officer (ADEO) for adult literacy and a commensurate position at the Block level. This is designed to look after the on- going activities which, we expect, will not be necessary after the Common School System becomes operational.

Chapter 8 : Annexure - I BIHAR PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATION COMMITTEE BILL, 2007

A BILL

For constituting school education committee in the Primary and Middle Schools of Bihar State

Preamble :To fulfill the “Fundamental Right of Education” to the children of age group 6-14

under the article 21 ‘A’ of the constitution of India and in the light of 73rd and 74th amendment of the constitution and also to Provide for ensuring the participation of people in the management, improvement, administration, supervision and control of all Primary & Middle schools by constituting a Vidyalaya Shiksha Samiti.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Bihar in the fifty eighty year of the Republic of India as follows: