Excelsior Correspondent
BANIHAL, Mar 22: National Conference leader and District President Ramban, Haji Sajjad Shaheen has expressed serious concern over the shortage of teaching staff in district Ramban, particularly in Banihal Assembly constituency.
He said that the Government schools in the entire Ramban district are grappling with a severe problem of shortage of teachers, with schools in rural areas bearing the maximum brunt of the staff crunch. There is more than 30 per cent shortage of staff in Government schools in rural areas of the district, as per the reports, he added.
Shaheen accused the Education Department of the lackadaisical approach in filling the vacant posts. The gravity of the situation can be understood from the fact that a Government school in (Kawna) in tehsil Khari of Banihal has only three teachers for 125 students in classes first to 8th with three vacant post including the Headmaster of the school, he said and added that similar reports have been received from Trigam, Mahu, Mangit, Kumbla, Buzla, Ramsoo, Neel, Ukharhal, Senabati, Alinbas, Pogal-Maligam, Sarachi, Khari, Nachlana, Sumar, Nowgam, Bankoot, Chapnari, Chamalwas, Chaknarwa, Dooligam, Hinjhal, Kaskoot, Asshar, Lamber, Chanjlu, Dooligam, Shagan, Wagan, Rajgarh, Desa, Batote, Ramban, Gandhri, Assar, Dharamkund and other areas of the district.
He asked, “how would the UT Government achieve ‘standards’ in education without providing necessary infrastructure facilities in schools and filling vacancies of teachers’ posts?”
Shaheen further said that some school don’t have teachers even for important subjects like Mathematics and Science and even the post of Head Masters also are lying vacant for a long time. “Students are forced to sit idle all through the day as most of the classes are not held due to shortage of teachers. Left with no other option, they are forced to spend on tuitions to learn the lessons. It affects their academic prospects because of government’s apathy,” he said.
Shaheen urged upon the JK Administration, especially Director School Education and CEO Ramban to fill up all the vacant posts in the all the schools of the district to ensure quality education in the backward areas.
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