The
school and mass education department, Odisha has though late initiated capacity
building programmes for the School Management Committee members in the state.
Well, it is a welcome step from the government because the SMC members have key
role to play as per the state rules on RTE act.But
there is a hidden agenda remains as the school management committees are to be
oriented by the BRCCs and CRCCs instead of other education officials. It is
seen and expected that the BRCCs and CRCCs are primarily working teachers who
are additionally given the responsibility to check and monitor limited school
activities. They will be no more interested to express their weak point before
the trainees i.e. SMC membersMany
of the voluntary organizations working on RTE in remote pockets of the state
claim that the trainers are only teaching on what is the role of the SMC
members, how should they manage their responsibility.They do not train them the
prospect part of SMC members and how can they intervene when teachers are not
coming timely or not teaching regularly. So the capacity building remains one
sided the real fruit of the power of SMCs are getting disappeared.Therefore,
the department must form a district level/ state level trainers from
non-teaching officials from their department and do capacity building
programmes so that it can cover both responsibilities and limitations of SMCs
and the teachers.