There should be a teacher for every Standard and for every section of a Standard in addition to the Headmaster (exclusive of Pandits, Munshis, Writing Masters, Drawing Masters, Physical Training Instructors and Sewing Mistress):[Provided that the work allotted to each such class teacher does not fall considerably short of a minimum of 17 hours of work per week. The District Educational Officers and the Inspectresses of Girls7 Schools shall relax this rule and condone-the deficiency in the minimum hours of work per week, viz., 17 hours prescribed for class teacher, after examining the merits of each case. It will also be open to the Director to permit a reduction in the number of class teachers on an examination of each case on its own merits, when the hours of work per class teacher fall short of the prescribed minimum by more than two hours.] [Added by G.O. Ms. No. 880, Education, dated the 11th May 1976.]In schools containing no class above the Eighth Standard, however, the Headmaster shall be treated for the purposes of this rule as one of the Class Masters, but if the strength of the school justifies it, the management may employ a clerk or one extra teacher who shall be of the secondary Grade in consultation with the District Educational Officer.
