New Initiative for Education Reform in Chhattisgarh: Concrete steps towards strengthening the education system and making it student-centric through rationalization
Giving quality education to children is our top priority – Chief Minister Shri Sai
Raipur, May 28, 2025/ Under the leadership of Chief Minister Shri Vishnudev Sai, the state government has decided to give priority to implementing the process of rationalization of schools and teachers to provide an excellent form to the education system of the state and ensure quality education. Behind this decision is the review report of the education department, in which the serious situation of unequal distribution of resources in government schools across the state has come to the fore.
According to the report, there are 211 government schools in Chhattisgarh where not a single student is enrolled, yet regular teachers are posted there. This not only leads to misuse of educational resources, but also affects the studies of students due to the shortage of teachers in the schools that need them.
For example, there are no students in the primary school Sajabhavana of Batoli development block of Surguja district, while an assistant teacher is working there. Similarly, the number of students in Harratikra school is also zero, but a head reader and two assistant teachers are posted there.
The education department has clarified that the relevance of such schools has ended, and now teachers will be immediately deployed from there to the schools where they are needed.
On the other hand, the situation of teacher crisis has been prevailing for years in many remote and tribal areas of the state. Due to lack of subject-wise teachers in Government Higher Secondary School Kunwarpur of Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur district, the examination result of class 12th in the year 2024-25 was only 40.68 percent, which is much less than the state average.
When Chief Minister Shri Vishnudev Sai was on a visit to Kunwarpur, the villagers strongly demanded teacher appointments before him. The villagers said that teachers for subjects like Mathematics, Science and English have not been available for years, which is directly affecting the education of the students.
Taking this demand seriously, Chief Minister Shri Sai directed the education department to send teachers from where they are posted in an unproductive manner to the needy schools immediately. He said that teachers should be posted where there are students – this is the primary condition of good governance.
Chief Minister Shri Vishnudev Sai said that giving quality education to children is our top priority. This is a campaign to empower the education system of the state. He said that we are laying the foundation of a system where both teachers and students are in their right place. Rationalization is the key to this change, which will solve the complexities of years and give new heights to education.
Experts associated with the education sector believe that this decision is the need of the hour. If it is implemented with impartiality and a data-based method, then the education system of Chhattisgarh can become an ideal model in the country.
On the instructions of Chief Minister Shri Sai, the Education Department has immediately activated the rationalization process, in which transparency, a human approach and the needs of the schools have been made the primary basis. This step will enable the schools without teachers to get teachers on the one hand, while on the other hand, it will prevent the posting of teachers in schools without students. This restructuring will make the education system balanced, efficient and result-oriented.
The decision of the Chhattisgarh government to rationalize is not just a systemic improvement, but a historic initiative to make education meaningful and inclusive. It is a reflection of the thinking that says – education starts where both the teacher and the student are present – while moving towards a golden future with an excellent purpose, with the inspiration that every school is a construction site for the next generation of the country.
