Bijendra Ahlawat
Tribune News Service
Faridabad, March 17
At least 90 government schools in the district do not have regular principals and head teachers, resulting in administrative and teaching issues. While 40 senior secondary, higher secondary and middle schools are without principals, around 50 primary schools are also functioning without head teachers. The district has around 340 schools.
Sources in the Education Department claim that vacancies in the schools have been an issue of concern, as jobs or duties of a principal or a head teacher have been assigned to other teaching staff members. Additional engagements make teachers skip classroom teaching on many occasions, adversely affecting the studies and the results. “The target of getting 80 per cent results (pass percentage) in higher and senior secondary levels in the near future is unlikely to be achieved in the given situation,’’ says a teacher.
Sushil Kumar, a former vice-president of the Haryana School Lecturers Association, says the implementation of a proper promotion policy has been delayed and over 500 teachers have been awaiting promotion for over two decades in the state.
A spokesperson for the Haryana Primary Teachers Association (HPTA) claims that 50 posts of head teacher in government primary schools are lying vacant in the district for the past over 10 years.
Chatar Singh, treasurer of the HPTA, says that teachers should be exempted from non-teaching jobs such as the preparation of Parivaar Pehchan Patra, the preparation or revision of electoral rolls, and Covid-related duties as these adversely affect the teaching work.
The government schools not having a regular principal include schools at Sector 10, Sector 28, Sector 22, Sector 21-D, NH-1, NH-2 (NIT), villages Budena, Bhankri, Ankhir, Ajronda, Chhainsa, Mohna, Panhera Khurd, Badkhal, Bhainsrawali, Bijopur, Mujheri, Saroorpur, Buapur, Badoli, Nangla Gujran, Korali, Neemka, Badoli, Mahawatpur, Dahkola, Atali, Gadkhera and Junhera.
“The issue has already been taken up with the authorities concerned and is likely to be resolved soon, says DEO Ritu Chaudhary.
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