Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 15: In a Public Interest Litigation filed by All Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh Teacher Federation seeking direction to State for framing policy for maintaining student-teacher ratio in the schools without any discrimination and implement the same in letter and spirit.
A Division Bench of State High Court comprising Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Alok Aradhe, directed respondents to file status report.
Division Bench after hearing Adv Pranav Kohli and AAG Ravinder Gupta directed that status which is to be filed shall include the tabulation of all essential facilities which the respondents have provided/proposed to provide/shall ensure provision thereof in schools at every level which would include, primary, middle, secondary and the higher secondary schools. The status report shall be filed under the signatures of the Secretary to Govt., Department of Education, wherein the time line shall be given of the period within which these facilities shall be ensured to the children of the State.
In the PIL it has been submitted that issues regarding transfers of the teachers, which are made so casually by the Head of the Department that sometimes, a school having a meager strength of children gets teachers whose number exceeds the children studying in schools. Moreover, the infrastructure of majority of the schools is in depilated conditions, and no steps are being taken by the concerned authorities in this regard, by siphoning the funds sanctioned for the said purpose. The Petitioner has raised its concern before the concerned authorities time and again but action has been taken till date. |
