DW BUREAU / Chandigarh Minister of School Education Punjab Harjot Singh Bains took a major decision and directed the District Education Officers to deploy 749 Block and District Mentors (BM and DM) of Science, Mathematics and English/Social Studies Subjects in schools with an immediate effect. According to the Education Minister, at present 680 teachers of these subjects were doing field duty as block mentors and 69 teachers as district mentors instead of teaching in schools. According to S. Bains, the purpose of the 'Mission-100 Percent' campaign is not to get hype by presenting fake statistics but to increase the learning efficiency of every student by improving the quality of education. Bains said he had received reports from some districts that departmental rules were not followed when making these deployments, which clearly state that no mentors be deployed in middle schools, but only one mentor in single-teacher middle schools can be deployed. Similarly, making these deployments, schools in remote and backward areas which are suffering from staff crunch should be covered first. Then schools with 50% staff and is in a dire need for a teacher of a subject should be covered. Likewise, Mentors should be deployed in schools where there is no teacher of the concerned subject. According to the Education Minister, prejudice or bias against any teacher should be avoided and these deployments should not be done in big schools where one a few posts are vacant, in urban areas or schools near cities. (editor@dailyworld.in)