Overview
- The Education Department designated Government Senior Secondary School principals as nodal heads with administrative control over nearby primary, middle and high schools.
- All teachers, including heads of subordinate schools, now report to the complex principal who can assign teaching work across schools as needed.
- Principals must visit each school in their complex at least once every two months for full-day reviews, file monthly reports and sanction most staff leave.
- The state cited 14,123 government schools—9,939 primary, 1,775 middle, 960 high and 1,989 senior secondary—with 87% of primary schools under 40 students and 97% of senior secondary schools above that mark.
- Officials framed the shift as an NEP-aligned rationalisation step given near-universal primary enrollment, negligible dropout and persistent staff shortages in many schools.