G.O.Ms.No.151 Dt: September 09, 2022 - School Education Department-Restructuring the administrative set up at the field level-to ensure effective monitoring of schools and providing quality education to the students-crea tion of few posts in lieu of surrender of certain posts-Revised delegation of duties and responsibilities to administrative officers in School Education Department-orders issued.

G.O.Ms.No.151 Dt: September 09, 2022 - School Education Department-Restructuring the administrative set up at the field level-to ensure effective monitoring of schools and providing quality education to the students-crea tion of few posts in lieu of surrender of certain posts-Revised delegation of duties and responsibilities to administrative officers in School Education Department-orders issued.

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School Education Department — Restructuring the administrative set up at the field level — tu ensure effective monitoring of schools and providing quality education to the students — creation of few posts in lieu of surrender of certain posts - Revised delegation of duties and responsibilities to administrative officers in School Education Department - orders issued

Order:

In the Government Order first read above, the administrative setup of School Education Department was restructured at the field level by reorganising the directorate specific, specialised posts like District Educational Officer, District Elementary Educational Officer, Inspector of Matriculation Schools and Inspector of Anglo Indian Schools into the jurisdiction based 'District Educational Officer’ with due delegations of powers over all types of schools in their jurisdiction.

2. In the letter 2n read above, the Commissioner of School Education in consultation with the Director of Elementary Education and Director of Matriculation School has stated that, subsequent to implementation of the Government Order first read above, the administration of all kinds of schools by the District Educational Officer has resulted in a reduction of the time spent by them on elementary and middle schools and the jurisdictional District Educational officer is not able to deliver the duties effectively. The vacuum created at the district level due to non-availability of an exclusive district level officer for elementary education has resulted in ineffective monitoring of the foundational teaching learning process. The Chief Educational Officers on the other hand are occupied with heavy regulatory work and and other academic work pertaining to students fac'ing public exams. Hence they are unable to spare quality time towards primary education. Due to the impact of the COVID -19 pandemic, enrolment of students has increased considerably in Government Schools. In order to retain students and to deliver quality education, it is essential to have an exclusive monitoring mechanism at the field level through a dedicated district level officer for the elementary sector viz District Educational Officer (Elementary) for each revenue district and one more District Educational Officer (Elementary) where the combined strength of Primary and Middle Schaols crosses 1000. The Commissioner of School Education has therefore requested the Government to create 58 District Educational Officers (Elementary)

3. The Commissioner of School Education has further requested that all the directly recruited District Educational Officers shall be posted as District Educational Officer (Elementary) on completion of their training for a minimum period of 2 years so as to monitor the functioning of elementary schools effectively and after 2 years the directly recruited District Educational Officer shall invariably be posted as District Educational Officer (Secondary) for a period of 2 years. Further the Commissioner of School Education has stated that there are 413 Education blocks and 836 Block Educational Officer posts sanctioned based on number of schools and student strength. Thefe are aroU0d 42,500 schools belonging to all management categories across the State in Elementary Education, including 5,159 unaided nursery and primary schools. As of now, Block Educational Officers are entrusted with the responsibility of monitoring 50 to 100 elementary and middle schools of all managements that follow the State Board syllabus. There is a constant demand from Urdu minority schools to restore to pre C.0 101 status of having exclusive Block Educational Officers for monitoring 279 Urdu minority Schools spread across 20 districts in the state. Accordingly a provision is to be made for 6 Block Educational Officers (Urdu Schools). The Commissioner of School Education has requested that in addition to 836 Block Educational Officers at present, 15 new Block Educational Officer posts have to be created as per the need based on the number of schools and the Btock Educational Officers for monitoring the minority schools.

4. Further the Commissioner of School Education has stated that the regulation of Private Schools were managed by the then Inspector of Matriculation Schools and the department restructuring has taken away the Inspector of /vfatriculation Schools posts and given the regulatory powers to the jurisdictional District Educational Officers and Chief Educational Officers. Due to implementation of various welfare programs and academic visits to the Government schools, the District Educational Officers and Chief Educational Officers are unable to spare time arid effectively regulate the unaided schools and has requested for a separate post of District Educational Officer (Private Schools) for every revenue district.

5. The Commissioner of School Education has further stated that with the proposed formation of Directorate of Private Schools (DPS) and addition of around 8,200 unaided schools from the Commissioner of School Education and Director of Elementary Education, the existing supervising officials and ministerial staff are inadequate to handle the workload and has requested to create a Joint Director level post and a Deputy Director level post to look after all unaided schools transferred from Elementa y and School Education Directorates. Similarty, with the expansio» of various activities in teaching, learning and in-service training of teachers, an additional Joint Director post and a Deputy Director level post in State Council of Educational Research and Training is essential to look after the work related to State Resource Centre (SRC) and SIEMAT so as to make the various inservice teacher training centres more effective and result oriented,

6. The Commissioner of School Education has also stated that prior to the re-organisation of the department, there were 67 posts of District Educational Officer (Secondary) looking after Government and Aided High and Higher secondary schools and one Inspector of Artglo indian Schools (IAS) exclusively to look after all Anglo Indian High/Higher Secondary Schools in the state. Subsequent to re-organisation, the jurisdictional District Educational Officers couldn't prioritise the work among primary, secondary schools and the regulatory works of unaided schools. Hence, it is essential to revive the District Educational Officer (Secondary) post to give impetus to secondary education and the classes that are facing the board exams and has requested that the Anglo Indian schools may be brought under the jurisdiction of District Educational Officer {Elementary) ol Chennai district.

7. Further the Commissioner of School Education has also enclosed the duties and responsibilities of the proposed reorganisation of field level officers in the District and has stated that the proposed restructuring of field level offices In the school education department is very much in line with tha ongoing activities aimed at improving the quality of education and providing a responsive administration to the needs of students and teachers and has requested the Government to issue appropriate orders by restructuring the department considering the welfare of teachers and students.

8. The Government after careful examination of the proposal of the Commissioner of School Education for restructuring the administrative set up at the field level accord sanction for the creation of the following posts :

(a) 2 posts of Deputy Directors one for Directorate of Private Schools and another for State Council for Educational Research and Training,

(b) 32 District Educational Officer posts,

(c) 15 Block Educational Officer posts

(d) 16 posts of Personal Assistant to District Educational Officer

(e) 86 Superintendent level posts to be adjusted against 86 upgraded Superintendents and

(f) Create one Joint Director post each in State Council for Educational Research and Training and Directorate of Matriculation Schools by moving 2 existing Joint Director posts in the Samagra Shiksha.

9. The Commissioner of School Education is directed to surrender the posts as identified in Annexure I to this Older in lieu of creation of the posts mentioned in para 8 above. Further the Government accepts the proposal of the Commissioner of School Education to revise the nomenclature of District Educational Officer as District Educational Officer (Elementary / Secondary / Private School) only for the purpose of revising the duties and responsibilities of the District Educational Officers with the existing rule provision and subsequently to revise the duties and responsibilities of the Chief Educational Officers and Block Educational Officers as annexed in Annexure II to this Order,

10. This order issues with the concurrence of the Finance(CMPC il) Department vide its U.O No 462/ADS{GKT)/2022 and Post Sanction Ledger No.202209PSL0285, dated 09.09.2022.

(By Order of the Governor)

XAKARLA USHA

Principal Secretary to Government.

To

The Commissioner of School Education, Chennai 6.

The State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha, Chennai-6.

The Director of Elementary Education, Ghennai-6. The Director of Matriculation Schools, Chennai-6.

The Director, State Council for Educational Research and Training, Ghennai-6. The Director of Covernment Examinations, Chennai-6 The Chairman, Teachers Recruitment Board, Chennai-6

The Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Text Book and Educational Services Corporation, Chennai-6

The Director of Public Libraries, Chennai-6.

The Director, Non Formal and Adult Education, Ghennai-6 The Pay and Accounts Officer South/North/East, Chennai. All Treasury Officers. The Accountant General Chennai- 18

coPy to All District Collectors

All Chief Educational Officers/ District Educational Officers/

Block Educational Officers (through the Commissioner of School EduCation) Finance Department, Chennai-9

Human Resource Management Department, Chennai-9 Chief Minister's Office, Chennai-9

Personal Assistant to Hon'ble Minister 1or Finance and Human Resource Management, Chennai-9

Human Resource Management, Chennai-9

Personal Assistant to Hon'ble Minister for School Education, Chennai-9 The Senior Private Secretary to Principal Secretary to Government, School Education Department, Chennai-9

All Officers / Sections in 3choot Education Department, Chennai-9