AB Sharma
Early Times Report
Raj0uri, Oct 21: Even as the ruling coalition stresses for quality education, most of the government schools in Lower Hathal here have been in a mess as the “outstation” teachers attend their duties only for two hours a day.
Prompted by complaints that the teachers were not providing proper education to the students, Early Times team visited around half-a-dozen schools in Lower Hathal zone of Tehsil Sunderabni only to find the complaints true. The schools visited include Middle School Seyia, Middle School Bambalya, Primary School Hathal, High School Taligalah and Middle School Lohoti.
The teachers, who hail from other districts, reach the school only at around 12:00 PM and leave back by 2:00 PM.
The students complained that teachers were not teaching them properly but ask them to study themselves. “They(teachers) even don’t spent two hours in class work here as they utilize most of this time to take lunch… As if they come here for picnic,” the students said.
“Our career is ruined, do we come to school to wait for teachers and read nothing?” the students asked, adding most of them come from humble background and cannot attend private tuitions.
On inquiring from school insiders it was learnt that instead of being stationed in the district, the teachers living elsewhere in districts like Jammu and Kathua travel long distances in bus to reach their duties. “They visit to school as per bus timings. The bus reaches this area at around noon and this is when they reach school and the bus leaves back at around 2:00 PM so they leave accordingly,” said a senior official in the Education department adding that such complaints have already come to his notice.
“Being over busy with other work, we had asked the concerned zonal authorities to look into the matter, but feedback is awaited,” said a senior official, on the condition of anonymity.
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