| Abstract: |
In this article, the present review research paper provides a meta-analysis of different employment compensation structures and service conditions for teachers working in private elementary schools of Dewas District Madhya Pradesh (India). The research compiles a considerable amount of previously published literature, policies and government circulars and empirical studies relating to salaries, contracts, contracts as well as security regulations for private schoolteachers along with work place welfare provisions in the Indian context with special reference to Central India. The review elucidates longstanding and systemic disparities in remittance of salary packages to teachers employed by government-aided and non-aided private elementary schools vis-à-vis their counterparts teaching in government schools, hence typifying wider systemic inequities embedded within India's dual-track education system. Results from the meta-analysis indicate that the vast majority of Dewas District's private elementary school teachers receive salaries well below minimum wage minimums by recommendations from both (anchored in 2016) and Madhya Pradesh orders of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. Additionally, the reviews critically analyses the lack of formal service conditions such as social security securities, contributions to provident fund, entitlement to gratuity and formal mechanisms for grievance redresses. It discusses the gender gap, school management committees, and regulators like the Madhya Pradesh Private School Regulatory Commission. Comprehensive policy reform, the provisioning of the professional development for teachers and intervention through legislation is offered as implications. The study ends with more extensive recommendations for reforming the structure of private school teacher compensation in Madhya Pradesh towards improving equity, accountability and educational quality. |
