Chennai: Finding fault with the standards of instructional and infrastructural facilities and also lack of supervision on the teachers, Madras high court has expressed hope that the state government will ensure that the infrastructural facilities are effectively utilized for imparting latest knowledge on subjects.
Dismissing a batch of appeals from state government and others relating to admission of students to MBBS/BDS courses, a division bench comprising Justices Nooty Ramamohana Rao and M. Dhandapani said the factual analysis of this case has brought forth the unequal distribution and non-availability of the infrastructural facilities in equal measure across the entire state.
Schools were not established particularly up to +2 stage in adequate numbers. Even where they were available, the standards of instructional and infrastructural facilities have not been either monitored or updated. Apparently, there was lack of supervision on instructors, who were entrusted with the task of teaching 10 +2 students in government schools.
Most of the students were made to fend for themselves. No responsibility was shared by instructors for the rapid fall of standards of the students, in spite of being well paid for. This malady has to be addressed and redressed by the state government by taking meaningful and substantive measures by creating a check on the failure of performance of duties and fixation of responsibilities on the teachers on the one hand and failure on their part to improve upon the lot of students, on the other while at the same time, the best amongst them should be rewarded, the bench added.
The state should also endeavour to ensure that all students get their knowledge updated by constant revision of the syllabus prescribed by the state. The state has an obligation to ensure a competent academic body comprising of academicians periodically undertake a review of the syllabus preferably once in 3 to 5 years’ span, so that the students of TN do not lag behind on the national scale in studying the 10+2 course, the bench said.
