Primary schoolchildren of Government Higher Primary School at Nelahala village in Raichur taluk, along with their parents, locked the classrooms and staged a demonstration outside school building on Tuesday demanding more teachers.
They raised slogans against the government for its negligence in filling vacant teacher posts in the school.
“There are 11 sanctioned posts for teachers in the school. However, only seven teachers are presently teaching as the government has not filled the vacancies. The teachers find it very difficult to manage around 400 students,” the parents said.
Repeated pleas
They alleged that Block Education Officer Ramachandrappa was not taking the issue seriously despite repeated requests. They urged the Deputy Director of Public Instruction and the Deputy Commissioner to intervene and depute additional teachers.
Denying the allegations, Mr. Ramachandrappa, who was in Kalaburagi for a department meeting, told The Hindu over phone that the efforts were on to depute some teachers to the school. “We have constantly been putting efforts to address the issue. We will depute a couple of teachers to the Nelahal school within a day or two,” he said.
