Rajnandgaon: Students of Government Higher Secondary School in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon alleged that they were threatened by a government official after they complained about shortage of teachers. They said that their studies are getting affected due to shortage of teachers while alleging that despite their repeated pleas to the authorities concerned no steps had been taken to fill the vacancies.
The students of Class 10th and 12th approached the Collectorate with the complaint of lack of teachers in the government school in Aliwara village of the district. The students submitted a memorandum expressing their grievances pertaining to the shortage of teachers in their school. They said that their studies are getting affected due to shortage of teachers while alleging that despite their repeated pleas to the authorities concerned no steps had been taken to fill the vacancies.
In the memorandum, the students said that if teachers are not arranged within three days, they will stage a sit-in protest and lock the school. The Collectorate asked the students to reach out to the District Education Officer (DEO).
Official misbehaves with students, threatens them with jail
The students alleged that the District Education Officer misbehaved with them and also threatened to send them to jail when they approached him.
“For the last two years, there is not a single lecturer for 11th and 12th class in the school. In such a situation, how we will study. This year there is 12th board examination,” another student said.
The District Education Officer, however, refuted the allegations and said that no such thing happened and that he only told the students not to take law in their hands. Meanwhile, the district administration assured to make arrangements for teachers within two days.
What parents said?
The parents who came to meet the Collector with their children said that there are no teachers for many subjects in the school due to which the studies of the students are getting affected.
“The Collector has promised to arrange teachers within two days but we went to meet the DEO but the DEO talked to the children in a bad manner. The school children have written in the application that if no arrangement of teachers is made within three days then they will sit on dharna and lock the school. The DEO reprimanded the students for writing such application and said that they will be put in jail,” Shivkumar Yadav, father of a student said.