An Assessment of the effectiveness of ICT Programme in Uttar Pradesh: Views of the ICT Teachers

The paper is designed to assess the performance of ICT from the viewpoint/ feedback of ICT teachers teaching in different schools in the rural and urban areas.ICT teachers are responsible for the teaching and maintenance of computer software and hardware under ICT in the schools. It was found that ICT plays an important role in school education and the ICT teachers are the key person playing an important role in this the effective implementation of this scheme. All sampled schools (Phase-phase-I & II) have one ICT teacher for handling entire ICT activities in schools It was observed that in general the ICT teachers are recruited on contractual basis for a certain period.But the ICT teachers are not getting proper remuneration which results in less motivation for their job.it was found that in around 66 percent of the sampled schools majority of the ICT teachers are not satisfied with their remuneration. Generally they are an exploited lot across the districts in terms of their remunerations as well as the work load. As per ICT teachers observation, this programme is very much popular and useful among the school students in Uttar Pradesh. But considering the students strength in schools, the proportion of available ICT computer and other infrastructural facilities are quite insufficient. In this paper the opinion of the ICT teachers in sampled schools has been solicited in this regard to understand the effictiveness of the ICT scheme launched by the government in two different phases.The paper is based on extensive primary field data on the basis of purposive sampling to find out the outcomes.