PATNA, April 23 -- Deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary on Tuesday underlined the need for quality and regular school education, besides transparent facilities for transfer and positing to teachers, emphasising that children should be at the centre of every endeavour. "The software mechanism for transfer and posting of teachers needs to be made more transparent. If any irregularity is found in it, action against the guilty should be taken after fixing accountability. Teachers can perform better if they are mentally free and saddled by issues related to transfer and posting, which should be facilitated," he added. Transfer and posting of teachers, who number around six lakh, has been a vexed issue in the education department for the last couple of years and a new policy is likely to come up soon taking into consideration various factors. The Deputy CM was speaking during the review of the department of education, which is one of the important portfolios under him. He had also served as education minister in the Nitish Kumar cabinet during the 2020-22 period. During the review, detailed power-point regarding the progress of various schemes and work being carried out in the department was made. The presentations also included important schemes under the process under Seven Resolves 3.0 programme, viz. model schools in every bloc, transfer policy, library eligibility test, PM Shri Poshan Yojana, textbooks, NGO affiliation etc. Underlining the need for quality education, Choudhary said that along with the appointment process for teachers, special emphasis needs to be placed on their training so that the benefits could be translated in the classrooms for the academic development of children and there should be a system in place for periodic review of the outcomes. "Providing quality education to children is our ultimate goal and the entire system revolves around it. Whatever policies, technology, training modules or skill development initiative are put in place, the ultimate objective is to make children get better. For this, teachers role is important and they should teach with full integrity and their presence in the school should be mandatory till the prescribed period. There should be no negligence on this count," he added. Choudhary said that there should also be periodic review of programmes being run with the non-government organisations....