The General Education department has gone back on the move to include 28 Saturdays as working days and increase the total number of instructional days in the coming academic year to 220 following opposition from teachers’ organisations.
At a meeting of the Quality Improvement Project (QIP) monitoring committee teachers’ organisations convened by Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty on Tuesday, a consensus emerged that not more than five consecutive working days should be allowed in a week.
The plan for a sixth consecutive working day should be dropped. Even then, it will be possible to get additional 12 Saturdays in the year as working days, taking the total number of instructional days to around 204.
