With West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu recently hinting at merger of government-run schools, the department’s officials have started working out a strategy to implement the unification, keeping in mind a balanced teacher to student ratio in each amalgamated school.
Insiders from the state education department said they have identified those schools in West Bengal which currently do not have a single student enrolled.
Currently the total number of such schools in the state stands at 3,254. However, as pointed out by school education department insiders, as many as 14,627 teachers are attached and officially employed with such schools.
On the other hand, departmental insiders added, there are 6,366 schools in the state which have 100 or more students enrolled but have just one teacher each.
“The idea now is to merge two or more schools under both these categories depending on the proximity of such schools to achieve balanced teacher to student ratios in the …