A total of 461 posts of headmaster are lying vacant in government primary schools in Barisal division hampering education, management and administration system in the grass route level mass education since long.
According to the Barisal divisional primary education office sources, there are 3,305 government primary schools in forty upazilas under six districts in Barisal division. Out of these schools, 461 are running without headmaster since long.
Sources said that posts of headmaster were lying vacant in 116 out 951 government primary schools in Barisal district, 84 government primary schools out of 582 in Patuakhali, 100 out of 605 schools in Pirojpur, 35 out of 424 in Bhola, 60 out of 379 in Barguna and 66 out of 364 government primary schools in Jhalakathi.
Teachers said that lack of headmasters in the government primary schools in the region was ailing the academic and administrational activities.
They claimed that it was very much difficult to run teaching smoothly due to having pressure of extra work following the government order.
In this situation if any teacher had to bear extra burden of acting headmaster, the administration and management of the school could never run smoothly as the other teachers of same rank hesitate to cooperate him, they alleged.
The teachers claimed that the government was developing the infrastructure of the schools every year but it had failed to fill in vacant posts timely and develop the monitoring system of primary education.
The deputy director of Barisal Divisional Primary Education office, SM Faruk,
acknowledged that problem was acute in primary schools of remote areas.
The authority of primary education directorate had assured of filling in the vacant posts of headmaster very soon, the deputy director said.
Source : New Age
