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| Process of filling vacant teachers posts slowed owing to financial stringency | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 2: Though the severe shortage of teachers and institutional heads in government schools in Jammu and Kashmir has been affecting the academic standard during the last four years, the state Government has no immediate plans to fill all the 19000 posts of teachers lying vacant.
Official sources said that in case the Government opted for early Assembly election the process of filling up of the vacant posts could be hastened. They said that earlier the Government had been advised to fill in these vacant posts through fast track recruitment process but till date nothing has materialized. One report said that since the Government is faced with financial stringency it has opted for a go slow on the filling of vacant posts of teachers.
Experts have said that shortage of teachers has been one of the reasons for dismal performance of the Government schools in the st ate Board examinations when compared to the satisfactory performance recorded by the private schools.
Official sources have said about 19000 posts of teachers in various government schools of the state were lying vacant. Of the 199 education zones in the state, 50 zones are without in charge zonal education officers, the source said. Around 140 higher secondary schools do not have principals while 200 high schools are without headmasters. The posts are vacant despite the Service Selection Board's recent notifications of selection of teachers through the state government's fast-track employment scheme. The filling up of posts of zonal education officers is possible with the promotion of School Education Department officials, which as per the Jammu and Kashmir Teachers Forum (J&KTF) is awaiting approval for the last six months.
The issue of the understaffed School Education Department was raised time and again with the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and Secretary, School Education but there has been no satisfactory response from the Government which indicates that financial crisis has come in the way of filling all the vacant posts of teachers.
School heads have again requested the Government to r emove teacher shortage in schools so that all Government schools improved their performance in state Board examinations f ailing which teachers would unnecessarily be made the scapegoat. |
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