Friday, February 26, 2010

Another 536 teachers urgently needed to run normal classes in Tml

2010-02-26 | 04:31:15
Tamenglong, February 25: Apart from acute shortage of infrastructure of school building and its furnitures in schools another 536 teachers are urgently needed to run normal classes for 113 schools in Tamenglong district of Manipur.

The existing teacher’s strength for 113 schools in the whole of Tamenglong district has only 349 teachers under Zonal Education office was posted here excluding the teachers of three Higher Secondary Schools of Tamenglong district of Manipur.

At present m there are only 66 teachers for nine high schools, only two teachers for one Aided High schools, 182 teachers for 30 Junior high schools, 58 teachers for 27 Aided Primary schools and 41 teachers for 46 school less village school (SVS) in Tamenglong district.

All these sanction posting teachers was against the guidelines of schools sanction posting of teachers. This is not a new thing for the schools in hill district of Manipur. This has been practicing since some 20 years back.

While disclosing this to the reporter on Thursday, N Jacob, Zonal Education Officer Tamenglong said every schools in Tamenglong district are facing acute shortage of teachers and bad infrastructures. Adding that there are many school remained defunct due to government apathy.

Even though there were shortages of teachers in every school, N Jacob,  ZEO Tamenglong is expecting good results in forth coming board exam of class X and XII this year. As this year the state government has taken up extra coaching class for X and XII students since 7 January till 25 February 2010. ZEO Tamenglong has opened five coaching centres for class X and XII.

In some schools the villages help to run the school by putting private teachers funded from NREGS and JRY schemes. The state government has engaged some wasted contract basis teachers that cause spoiling the school administration and many students’ lives. Narrating the episode of contract basis teachers ZEO Tamenglong stated that poor parents sent their children to the government schools as some contracting basis teachers are coming to government school.

The state government has engaged only for four to five months and consequently the contract basis teachers left the school and started defunct again spoiling the school administration and students’ lives, he said.

Knowing the bad education policy of the state government the poor cultivators who are working and sweating in the hot sun for daily bread has no other option to send out their children to private run schools with much difficulties.

It is also worth mentioned that due to lack of school in many villages of Tamenglong district poor parents sent out their children to unknown persons who promise to give quality education to other states becomes human traffickers.

In the meantime, the centre team has investigates the implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abyian, SSA schemes in Tamenglong district. The team also inspected some schools in Tamenglong district.

However, the centre refuse to give any comment of their investigation saying that the ministry will provide detail information of SSA implementation in Manipur.

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