Edu Dept to adjust teachers to meet shortage for higher classes

Deepender Deswal

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Tribune News Service

Hisar, July 31

With many government schools showing poor results in the absence of adequate teachers, the education authorities have decided to adjust teachers at the district level to make up for the shortage of teachers in various schools.

District Education Officer Baljeet Singh Sehrawat said that teachers from the TGT cadre would be adjusted as per their qualifications to teach class X and higher classes.

“There is still a shortage of teachers at the secondary and senior secondary levels. With this, TGTs who have attained higher qualifications will be allocated higher classes as per their qualifications. Similarly, PGTs will be assigned lower classes to improve the standard of learning,” he said.

Sehrawat said that they had also sought a report from the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) in Mattarsham village about the poor results in Kabrel where all the girl students flunked in matriculation and some other schools had single-digit pass percentage.

Sources said that the state government has directed the district education authorities to ensure adequate staff in all the schools for class X and 10+2 to avoid extremely poor results.

The issue was raised in the Lok Sabha by Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala after The Tribune highlighted the Kabrel school issue in these columns on June 26. The district has the highest number of 822 government schools in the state.

The government girls’ high school (GGHS) in Chuli Bagrian village in Adampur block has no post-graduate teacher (PGT) for classes IX and X. The school having 70 students is being run by a Physical Training Instructor (PTI) and a drawing teacher.

The teacher incharge of GGHS, Chuli Bagrian, Shiv Kumar, said that they had 28 girls in class X. “We have guest teachers and teachers re-employed after retirement for classes VI-VIII. We have made some adjustment to teach the girls of higher classes,” he said adding that the school had 50 per cent result in matriculation in the last examination.

Similarly, the government higher secondary schools in the same village too have no teacher for subjects like mathematics, science and Sanskrit and Hindi. “From last year, a village girl Kiran, who is MSc in Mathematics, has been providing voluntary services free of cost to the school. She is of great help to the students and the school was able to give satisfactory result of about 76 per cent in matriculation and 83 per cent in 10+2 due to her contribution,” informed Krishan Kumar, principal of a higher secondary school.