Teacher writes questions on door in absence of blackboard in Odisha

School headmistress served notice for dereliction of duty and asked to reply within three days.  

A video of a government school in Odisha has once again brought the state’s sub-par education infrastructure under lens. In the video that went viral on social media, a teacher is seen writing questions on the door of a classroom in the absence of a blackboard.  

The incident took place during the half-yearly examinations of Classes I to VIII. As per information, when students of Class V reached the school to write exam, they were not given question papers, The Print reported. When contacted, headmistress of the Hingula Government High School Saraswati Panda said they failed to provide question papers to students as the school did not receive them from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan authorities.  

She said, “We have two smart classrooms. As the school has more than 400 students in Classes I to VIII, we made seating arrangements in all the classrooms. Since the entire school building does not have blackboards, the teachers had to write the questions on the classroom doors."

“We were made to sit for some time as the teachers did not provide us question papers for the examination. Later, a teacher wrote the questions on the door of the classroom,” a student of Class 8 said. 

Jajpur DEO-cum-Project Director of Samagra Shiksha said a show-cause notice has been issued to the school. “We have served a show-cause notice to the headmistress of the school for dereliction of duty, and asked her to reply within three days failing which necessary action will be initiated,” he said. Notably, the school was upgraded last year under the ‘5T’ initiative that aims to develop infrastructure in educational institutions, officials said. 

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