Worried over the declining academic standards of government schools in Punjab, the state government has banned the use of mobile phones by students as well teachers within the government run schools of the Punjab.
In latest diktat, the state government has decided that school teachers now have to deposit their mobile phones withe the principal or the headmasters of the state government schools before entering the classrooms for teaching.
The government order is a result of a finding by the Director General of School Education (DGCE), who was given the task of finding the lack of discipline and continuous declining academic standards in the government. The report has zeroed on mobile phone nuisance has major cause of of ills in government schools.
To implement the latest directive in state run schools, Punjab education minister Sikander Singh Malukahas passed orders asking all district education officers to ensure immediate implementation of the orders. The government has also asked to deal strictly with the violators.
The decision has been taken keeping in view the increased mobile nuisance in the schools. The new policy is aimed at freeing the government schools from the mobile nuisance. Although mobile phones were not allowed inside the schools, but the teachers as well students used to bring the mobiles into the classrooms and could disturb the whole class with mobile tunes.
The government schools of Punjab are not really known for their academic standards as people prefer sending their children to private schools to constant declining standards of government schools. The new policy issued by the government has ordered the heads of the all the government schools in the state not to allow any faculty members carry their mobile phones inside their class.