94 schools in Haryana's Nuh district without teacher, 87 have only one

Bhartesh Singh Thakur

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 9

Government Primary School at Patuka in Nuh has 224 students, but not a single teacher. There are nine sanctioned posts and all are vacant. As many as 423 students are enrolled at Government Middle School in Naharpur. Here too, all five posts of teacher are unfilled.

Sorry state of primary education

• In Nuh district, 1,643 posts of teacher vacant at elementary level
• In all, 2,291 vacancies of primary teachers across Haryana
• The count for vacant posts in upper primary section is 2,474
• As many as 1,427 posts of subject teachers vacant too

It’s a similar sorry state in 94 schools — 11 at primary level and 83 in upper primary section — across Haryana’s Nuh district, all operating without any teacher. There are 87 other schools — 31 primary, 56 upper primary —that have only one teacher, according to Education Department data. Compared to “zero teacher” Nuh schools, Mahendragarh district has 50 surplus teaching staff. The count stands at 18 for Panipat. Nuh District Elementary Education Officer Abdul Rehman said they were making do with teachers from schools in the district that had surplus staff. “Either primary teachers are sent to upper primary classes or vice versa. We are relying on education volunteers too,” said Rehman.

Elementary Education Director Anshaj Singh said government schools in the state had witnessed 2.5 lakh more enrolments this year. “The process to rationalise strength of teachers is underway. In Nuh, 1,643 posts are vacant at elementary level,” he said. Additional Chief Secretary (School Education) Mahavir Singh said, “The intra-district rationalisation of primary teachers is underway, but inter-district process is held up due to litigation.”

The project approval board of the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan recently pointed out that there were 2,291 vacancies of primary teachers and 2,474 of upper primary teachers in government schools, “which may be filled on priority”. 

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