By Ovais Gull
Srinagar: The strike of teachers at Delhi Public School (Budgam) has affected the studies of students with parents demanding authorities to end the stalemate to ensure the education of their wards would not get affected any further.
The parents who have enrolled their wards at DPS Budgam said that students are suffering due to failed administration of the institute from past five days, adding that no class work has taken place for five days now as teachers and drivers stay in ground all day.
Teachers do not attend to classes, thus affecting the studies of the students, they said.
Teachers are demanding hike in their salaries but administration has failed to come to any conclusion with them, the aggrieved parents said, adding that they (Parents) have no issue with the teachers, who might be right in their demand but the School administration seems least bothered by the academic loss of students.
Parents further added that many of them preferred not to send their wards to school today as they didn’t want to see their wards sitting idle in the School, adding that the students are being made hostage to the crisis.
Also, they said some students were injured in the school as there was no one to control them, adding that School is a Higher Secondary and from lower classes to higher classes no one is studying a lesson since five days. “Had it not been mid-session, it was better for us to take our wards from the school and go to another school,” they added.
Meanwhile, Principal DPS Budgam Mehfooz Aslam told The INS that the teachers were on strike from last couple of days and the management who had to take call to end the deadlock was not feeling well to talk to the teachers.
However, he said that things have been settled now after he met the management. “The classes resumed today and the loss suffered by the students will be coped up within three days,” he added.
However parents refuted claimes by school saying that the issue has not been resolved.
“They have been telling us same since first day however each day our wards go to school they narrate the same tale. It’s becoming difficult for us to believe in their claims,” a parent told INS.
