A new rule of not apppointing a drawing teacher if a government-run or aided school has less than 500 students has drawn criticism from such teachers, who say the rule is contradictory to recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which emphasises on holistic education. An association of drawing and sports teachers has written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as well as school education minister Dada Bhuse demanding that this clause in the new rules of sanctioning teaching and non-teaching posts in government-run or aided schools should be reviewed and drawing teachers should be considered at par with sports teachers, which have one sanctioned post for every 250 students. State Vice-President of the association Kiran Sarode, said: “Art is as important as sports education. Yet, there are two different rules for the two. Schools having 250 students will get a sports teacher but for drawing teachers, a school has to have a minimum of 500 students. If this comes into effect, a majority of schools in rural parts of Maharashtra will not have drawing …