Assam government merges elementary, secondary education departments

GUWAHATI: The Assam government has decided to create a new school education department by merging two existing ones, an official notification said. The elementary and secondary education departments are being merged to form the new one, it said. Consequent to the merger, all officers and staff of the two departments will come under the administrative control of the school education department. All correspondence relating to the existing departments will also be henceforth made in the name of the new one, it said.

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The notification was issued by the administrative reforms department earlier this week. All existing directorates and organisations of the two departments will be under the administrative control of the school education. The notification does not specify any reason for the merger.

Recently, Assam education minister Ranoj Pegu announced that he will consider complaints against school merger supported with a “strong logic” and asked to send them to his email ID. The minister asked to provide the correct Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) code and enrollment figure along with the complaint. The state government recently announced closure of schools after poor results in Assam Class 10 exams this year, correcting it later as school merger and not closure after receiving flak.

(with inputs from PTI)