Kupwara: In Higher secondary school Behnipora Rajwar Handwara, for more than three hundred students their are only four teachers. 13 posts according to officials are vacant in the school and the district is facing shortage of teaching staff as well.
On Wednesday students protested against non-availability of teaching staff and ‘criminal negligence of educational department’.
“Since the establishment of higher secondary our institution is plagued due to non-availability of teaching faculty members,” protesting students said.
According to protesting students there are more than 300 students enrolled in the institution, “we have only four teachers. “Our academic course has been badly hit,” they said.
“While education minister calls private tution centres a problem, we are forced to go to tuition centers.”
The protesting students raised slogans against the district administration accusing them of keeping criminal silence and negligence of duty.
“The CEO, ZEO and the district administration are playing with our academic career. Their criminal silence is responsible for pushing students coming on roads rather being in school,” they said.
“13 posts are vacant in the said institute,within a period of one week teaching staff will be sanctioned to the instution,” Chief Education Officer Kupwara Shafiq Nabi war told INS.
War said that the there is dearth of staff in the district and they have ‘already asked for more 38 post to SSB’.
