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| Rural schools almost defunct | | Attachments of teachers in towns continue unabated | | DODA APR 19
Contrary to the tall claims being made about detachment of teachers from urban area schools and their subsequent postings at their original places, the ground reality is altogether different in schools located at far off and remote areas of the district. In most of the cases, the schools are understaffed, as the incumbents have managed their attachments in schools nearer to their residences.
Such attachments have been continuing since the eruption of militancy in the State, especially in Doda district and while in some cases the government have succeeded in detaching the teachers, who had managed posting according to their wishes, but the position remains the same in most of the cases as a result the schools are closed.
The posts of the various educational institutions which were shifted from rural areas to urban areas were restored back last year and the masters/teachers working on these posts were reverted back to their original places in order to make the rural schools functional. However, the reports suggest that attachments within the zone are still continuing by transferring the posts along with the incumbents from rural to urban area schools.
According to reliable sources, staff problem in rural schools is continuing for the last 15 years due to the attachments. However, last year, the DDC Doda and other higher education authorities had directed the CEO Doda to provide teachers to all the needy schools, particularly in hilly areas where from complaints of non- functioning of schools had been received.
Swiftly acting on these complaints and the feed back, the Deputy Commissioner had personally visited these areas and it was established that most of the teachers from the rural area schools had got their choice posting in the town schools against the posts of rural area schools. This was done mostly in the interest of the teachers at the cost of the far-flung and hilly area schools, sources added.
Recently this correspondent personally visited these far-flung areas and interacted with people. The people of these areas told to this correspondent that from Middle School Kanhal, the Post of a Master and one Teacher were transferred to Doda town along with the incumbents while two to three posts from MS Bijarni are also being utilized in the Doda town. In Kishtwar Zone, five posts of MS Shanna alone are being utilized in different schools of the town and same is the condition in the schools of Bhadarwah zone, the people complained.
It may be mentioned here that the students in rural and hilly areas, who come to schools after covering a long distance, had to go back unattended due to non availability of teachers.
The education system in the city schools too has deteriorated to such an extent as most of the Mohalla schools are running in dilapidated buildings, lacking all necessary infrastructures like toilet, drinking water and playground facilities. These schools have the enrollment of only few students and that too from underprivileged section of the society. Instances of teachers enrolling their wards in these schools are negligible and on the contrary they enroll their children in the private schools where the staff is comparatively less qualified and less paid. In most of the government schools, especially in urban areas, the strength of teachers is much higher than the sanctioned one and this fact is attributed to the attachments from the rural area schools. In most of the schools, the number of teachers is much higher than the students enrolled, which is totally against the prescribed norms and calls for overhauling the entire system and posting of requisite staff to the far flung and deficient schools.
The inhabitants of the far off areas have sought Chief Minister’s personal intervention in making the defunct and closed schools functional with the detachment of teachers who have managed their postings either under political patronage of by other means. They have also demanded deputation of a fact finding team who would conduct surprise checks in the schools and where there is excess staff and also those schools which have a little or no staff to take care of the children.
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