The deputy commissioner has requested the divisional commissioner to take up the matter at an appropriate level and fill vacancies without any further delay.
Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district is facing an acute shortage of teaching staff in government-run schools. The incident has triggered a ‘crisis-like’ situation in the district. In an official communication to the divisional commissioner, Jammu, Ramesh Kumar, District Development Commissioner, Ramban, Mussarat Islam highlighted the issue of the increasing gap between sanctioned strength and in-position teaching staff. The officer has shown a red flag to the given situation requesting immediate action to put back the school education department on the rail.
Mismatch between sanctioned strength and positions vacant
Stating that there is a mismatch between sanctioned strength and positions vacant for principals, headmasters and other teaching staff at all levels in government schools across the district, Islam said that the figures are disturbing. The acute shortage of teaching staff in the district has resulted in the widespread of protests by Panchayati Raj institutions, parents and the general public almost every day with demand for filling up of all vacant posts.
The letter posted by the district commissioner said, “Since the matter was last taken up with the school education department for filling up of vacant posts, there has been a steady procession of teaching staff, especially lecturers & masters, to the other districts without any replacements, thus rendering the majority of the schools without adequate teaching staff.”
Fill vacancies without any further delay
The deputy commissioner has requested the divisional commissioner to take up the matter at an appropriate level and fill vacancies without any further delay.
According to the officer, 168 posts (15 under orders of transfer) of lecturers, out of 269 are presently lying vacant with a large number of higher secondary schools left without even a single lecturer.
“With 256 posts of masters against 437 and 43 out of 59 posts of headmasters also lying vacant, district Ramban is literally on the edge in the School Education sector,” Islam said.
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