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SDMC members lock school gate

Angry: Members of the SDMC of the Government Urdu Medium Primary and Middle School and children outside the school in Belgaum on Monday.

Belgaum: Members of the School Development Monitoring Committee (SDMC) of the Government Urdu Medium Primary and Middle School at Kaktives locked the main gate of the school here on Monday to protest against the poor quality of teaching at the school. They demanded enmasse transfer of the teachers with immediate effect.

The members headed by chairman Azad G. Mulla marched to the school in the morning and locked the main gate. They said that there was no point in running a school when the teachers were not concerned about providing a good education.

Soon after, senior officials of the Education Department rushed to the spot. Deputy Director of Public Instruction S. Jaykumar, who was convinced about the SDMC members’ complaints, suspended five teachers on charge of dereliction of duty.

According to the members, the teachers were not interested in imparting quality education to the students.

They were not even co-operating with the headmistress. Even at a meeting recently convened to discuss these issues the teachers refused to take any responsibility leaving the headmistress alone. The teachers entered into a verbal altercation with the SDMC members instead of taking responsibility.

Mr. Jayakumar said the suspension of the five teachers was inevitable as there had been repeated complaints about them. Some of them had been serving in the same school for 15 to 20 years.

Some of them had even served as in-charge headmasters on several occasions. He said that his enquiries corroborated with the complaints of the SDMC members and so they had been suspended.

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