JAIPUR: Rajasthan government recently issued a circular to put a full stop to the vocational training that is being provided in government schools. Vocational training was started by the former BJP government in 905 schools for students studying from classes IX to XII.The training began from 70 schools in 2014-15 and increased to 905 schools for which around 1,810 teachers were appointed. The aim of this training was to enable students to generate employment after passing out from the school. Around 1,20,000 students benefited from this but after the change of government, on February 12, 2019 a circular was issued in which it was mentioned that from February 28 vocational teachers are not required to come to school.Vocational teachers are against the move. In a press conference organised on Monday, Ashish Sharma, one of the vocational teachers said, “We were made to take exams. We were given Rs 15,000 salary which was increased in August 2018 but since then we haven’t received our wages. We have applied many times to the government, but nothing was done. The new government is asking us not to report to school. We want the government to take back this order and give us our salary.” Laboratories were established in more than 700 schools and Rs 50 crore has already been spent on building the infrastructure.

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