Shortage of teachers in govt schools triggers ‘crisis-like’ situation in J&K’s Ramban district- Education News
An acute shortage of teaching staff in government-run schools of the Ramban district in Jammu & Kashmir generated a ‘crisis like’ situation, as informed by a senior government official on Monday.
Ramban District Development Commissioner Mussarat Islam had red-flagged the problem of increasing the gap between the sanctioned strength and in position teaching staff to Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar in a conversation. He also asked for immediate action to put back the school education department on rail. Speaking on the discrepancy between the sanctioned strength and vacancies for principals, headmasters, and other teaching staff at all levels in government schools across the district, Mussarat Islam said, “The figures are disturbing”, and that there were widespread protests by the Panchayati Raj institutions, parents, and the general public almost every day with the demand to fill up vacancies.
The district commissioner further wrote in his letter, “Since the matter was last taken up with the school education department for filling up of vacant posts, there has been a steady procession of teaching staff, especially lecturers & masters, to the other districts without any replacements, thus rendering the majority of the schools without adequate teaching staff.”
He said 168 posts (15 under orders of transfer) of lecturers, out of 269 are presently lying vacant with a large number of higher secondary schools left without even a single lecturer. Shortage Mussarat Islam further said that 168 out of 269 lecturer positions are currently empty, with a large number of higher secondary schools lacking even a single lecturer. He had stated, “With 256 posts of masters against 437 and 43 out of 59 posts of headmasters also lying vacant, district Ramban is literally on the edge in the school education sector.”
The deputy commissioner requested the divisional commissioner to take up the matter at the appropriate level and fill the vacancies without any further delay.
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