GPS Heran Boop Singh is student less and teacher less, this year too!

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, April 20

 Amid the pandemic, a school in Lohian block in Jalandhar district had become student-less last year and the situation remains the same this year too! There is not even a single student in Government Primary School (GPS) Heran Boop Singh.

Reason: No permanent teacher in the school. The school is lying closed and officially it is still on papers. The education department officials have been awaiting the transfers and recruitment of the students so that this school could get one.

 In GPS Heran Boop Singh, there were as many as eight students in the session before the pandemic had hit. But in the absence of a regular teacher, the strength kept on decreasing, and last year, not even a single student got admitted.

 As per the information, a letter was also written in this regard to Lohian Khas Block Primary Education Officer (BPEO) in which it was mentioned that because the teachers used to come on deputation in the school, the parents of the students had decided to admit their wards in another school nearby.

A request to appoint a permanent teacher was also made in the letter so that the students could be brought back to school.

Till 2019 there was a permanent teacher in the school who was transferred and after that no permanent appointment was made and every teacher came on deputation.

 District Education Officer (Primary) Rampal had said last year that the matter was in his knowledge. When asked today, he said that every information regarding the schools remains available on e-Punjab portal and thus the matter might be in the notice of the higher officials. “Now we are waiting for the recruitment and transfer process of the teachers which is going on, and thus my priority will be to depute a permanent teacher in such teacherless schools,” he said.

 The officials are expecting that once the school gets a permanent teacher, the students will come back.

 Notably, there are several schools in the district where there are no permanent teachers and education providers are teaching instead. And there are schools where the teachers come on a deputation basis, i.e. on rosters. The teachers teach for 10-15 days, and then another teacher joins, which creates problems for the students.