A total of 263 posts of headmaster and assistant teacher are lying vacant in government primary schools in seven upazila of Patuakhali hampering academic and administrative activities.
According to the Patuakhali district education office sources, there are 582 government primary schools in the district. But 84 posts of headmaster and 179 posts of assistant teachers have been lying vacant since long in the primary schools.
Out of those vacant posts, 21 headmaster and 45 assistant teacher posts are lying vacant in Bauphal upazila, 19 headmaster and 28 assistant teacher posts in Galachipa upazila, 6 headmaster and 20 assistant teacher posts in Kalapara, 3 headmaster and 34 assistant posts in Mirzaganj, 4 headmaster and 17 assistant teacher posts in Dashmina, 4 headmaster and 4 assistant teacher posts in Dumki, 27 headmaster and 31 assistant teacher posts in Sadar upazila.
Sources said that the government, however, was developing the infrastructure of the schools every year. But the government had failed to fill in vacant posts timely and develop the monitoring system of primary education.
Teachers of many primary schools in the district claimed that it was very much difficult for them to run teaching smoothly as they were always doing extra work for not having sufficient teachers.
The academic and administrative activities of the schools were also being hampered severely, the teachers alleged.
The district primary education officer, Amal Krishna Majumder, said that the problem was acute in primary schools of remote areas due to lack of teachers.
The higher authority of primary education assured them of filling in the vacant posts as soon as possible, he said.
Source : New Age
