LUCKNOW, April 13 -- The department of higher education has initiated an exercise to create clusters of teachers in all districts of Uttar Pradesh to ensure that the number of teaching faculty in the state's government and aided degree colleges is proportionate to the student enrolment.

Under the initiative, in institutions where the student proportion is high but the number of teachers is low, faculty members will be deputed from nearby colleges-based on requirements-to take classes.

BL Sharma, director of higher education, said, "We will create a cluster of teachers within each district. The objective is to ensure the optimal utilisation of our teaching faculty. If a situation arises where one institution has fewer students but a surp...