DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 25 (MExN): A students’ union is set to march all the way to the State capital Kohima from their village situated 302 kilometer away under Tamlu sub-division, Longleng district to protest against the lack of teachers in their village Government High School.
Left without option, the Bura Namsang Students’ Union (BNSU) on Thursday warned that if the Nagaland Education department fail to deploy a headmaster, assistant headmaster and graduate teachers, especially in Math and Science subjects by March first week, an agitation in the form of a “historic march from village to Directorate of School Education, Kohima would be launched.”
Giving reasons for their angst, the students’ union said the Government High School (GHS) at Bura Namsang village under Tamlu division, Longleng district is being run with only five teachers and without any headmaster or assistant headmaster.
Normally, a GHS should have at least 16 teaching staff, but at Bura Namsang Village GHS there are only 5 teachers and no institutional head- the reason why no proper classes could be held in the previous session of 2015, Bura Namsang Students’ Union (BNSU) said in the press statement.
The students’ union also highlighted how the institution had struggled without even a single Science teacher for the past many years. A Math teacher posted in the village had to struggle by juggling between the two subjects for all the classes, it informed.
It also mentioned how the village council’s effort to keep a private teacher to help the students had to be discontinued due to fund constraint.
And due to lack of teachers, the norm of teaching six subjects, which is mandatory in every government schools, is yet to see reality in the village GHS, the students’ union lamented.
In such bleak scenario, it reported that students enrolled in the school are beginning to think it a waste of time to attend a school where there are no teachers.
Questioning the utter negligence of the concerned department, the students’ union has demanded that the required number of teachers and institutional head (s) should be deployed immediately with comparative ratio by the first week of March.
The students’ union has also asked the existing teachers posted in the Bura Namsang GHS and GPS to come to the posting place and resume their duties.
