Scarcity of employees, outdated infra plague faculties in border district
Ravi Dhaliwal
Gurdaspur, February 15
Gurmeet Singh Bajwa, a lecturer in a senior secondary faculty, Kalanaur, is a a lot harried man. He’s paid by the Punjab authorities to show Chemistry. Nonetheless, he spends more often than not educating Punjabi as a consequence of a scarcity of tutors. And he has been doing this for the final two years.
Lecturers say that the Kalanaur faculty is simply one of many examples of the dire state of affairs of the 400-odd faculties situated close to the worldwide border. Of the seven senior secondary faculties within the Kalanaur training block, 5 operate with out Principals.
Particular cadre on playing cards
- DEO Amarjit Bhatia says the AAP authorities is formulating a coverage whereby a separate cadre for border space faculties is being created
- “The vacancies will probably be crammed quickly,” he mentioned
As a rule, the Schooling Division has to refill the vacancies of principals by way of promotions. For the final a number of years, a number of border faculties have remained headless as a result of the federal government has not promoted lecturers.
There are a number of vacancies in these faculties, which operate with out satisfactory infrastructure. To compound issues, not even a single instructor is stationed at any of the border’s 54 major faculties. The lackadaisical method in direction of fixing the day-to-day issues is simply including to the chaos.
Gurmanjeet Kaur, In-charge of the Kalanaur faculty, says she has introduced these anomalies to the discover of the District Schooling Officer (Secondary) many instances.
In her establishment, in opposition to the 20 sanctioned posts of instructor, seven are mendacity vacant. Out of the 5 posts of laptop instructor, just one instructor is on obligation. All others have been assigned ‘outdoors duties’ which incorporates operating election-related errands.
Senior Lab Attendants (SLA) are being pressured to show Punjabi whereas one teaches historical past rendering the labs empty.
Lecturers agree that in opposition to the sanctioned power of 20 lecturers, the requirement is 23. With as many as seven vacancies, this implies there’s a shortfall of 10 lecturers.
That is the story of just about all faculties situated close to the fencing.
DEO Amarjit Bhatia says the AAP authorities is formulating a coverage whereby a separate cadre for border space faculties is being created. “The vacancies will probably be crammed quickly,” he mentioned.
Now, after serving the obligatory interval of two years in border space faculties, lecturers get posted close to their houses on the first obtainable alternative. On the face of it, the enrolment facet seems good. However scratch the floor and it turns into clear that college students don’t come to check. They arrive to beat their starvation. The highschool at Talwandi Goraya, close to the IB, is not any completely different from the Kalanaur one. Lecturers confide that the mid-day meal is the principle attraction for the scholars.
“In all authorities faculties falling within the neighborhood of the IB, the place the usual of dwelling is abysmally poor, college students come simply to have meals. The wards of the wealthy examine in non-public faculties whereas we’ve got on our rolls kids of labour-class mother and father. These individuals can barely afford two sq. meals a day,” mentioned Gian Chand, the in-charge.
Chand confirmed that the youngsters get enrolled solely because of the mid-day meal scheme. Right here too out of 17 posts, 6 are vacant.
He laments the college infrastructure shouldn’t be effectively maintained due to meagre funds launched by the division.