Friday, April 29, 2011

AINVSA website goes Live !!

Until now we needed to depend on the mercy of Principals to know about our union activities as the mails  are sent to school mailboxes. With the launch of  AINVSA website (Click here to go to the site), we all can have a direct source of information. I would like to request all the friends not to miss the details of the court case filed by Shri Mishra on behalf of AINVSA  in the new site.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

JNVST on 26th June 2011?

There is no official word on that date. Everybody and his uncle is saying that JNVST will be held on 26th June 2011. It would be prudent to conduct it on 3rd July. Unless an amendment is made to RTE or a notification is issued, Samiti can't go ahead with JNVST.! It seems that the bets are on Monsoon Session of the Parliament!!!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Random Selection instead of JNVST 2011?

Umpteen news reports are found across the nation, both in vernacular and national dailies, about the postponement of JNVST and the anxiety of parents. Everybody is worried as many of these parents have invested lot of their energies for getting their children to prepare for JNVST and they are not ready to loose an academic year for the sake of admission in JNVs.  Lack of  reason for the postponement of JNVST  in the public notice issued by Samiti has lent the situation into a kind of mystery. Nothing seems to be moving in the direction of either notification or an amendment for RTE.
Samiti is left with only one option-going ahead with random selection. Recently Welfare School Organizations in Andhra Pradesh have decided to go ahead with the lottery system of selection. District Collectors are assigned the task of supervising such selection. CBSE, the agency which conducts JNVST, has asked the Vidyalayas to clarify anomalies in the list of candidates forwarded by the JNVs. Once the anomalies are corrected, NVS may go for lottery System. If any such decision is taken, NVS faces a gigantic task of managing its public image. Lottery System, which is legal, may not go down well with the parents. Parents,majority of whom are from rural areas, will not understand the nuances of RTE. They may think that the decision is a way of opening back door entry to non-eligible candidates and circumventing merit selection. It would dent the image of Navodayas which was hard earned by NVS with its credible and impartial selection history.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Online Payment of Salaries from NVS Head Quarters!

Many of us are yet to get salaries of March. Salary payment on time depends on the work culture of our office staff in our Vidyalayas. Some Vidyalayas even get salaries in the second week of the month as a routine. But the shopkeepers and milkwalas will not wait for second week! Samiti has evolved a strategy to overcome this administrative handicap. Union Bank of India and Samiti have joined hands to pay salaries of all the employees of NVS at one go through UBI Portal. Training program for vidyalaya staff is chalked out and intimated to ROs. If everything goes as planned, our past financial predicaments would become past from April 2011.