RANGPUR, Nov 18: Academic and administrative activities are facing serious setback in a good number of government primary schools in the district due to lack of headmasters.
According to Rangpur District Primary Education Office sources; there are 1,412 government primary schools in 8 upazilas under the district. Out of these schools, 217 are running without headmaster for long.
A number of schoolteachers and guardians said normal functioning of the primary schools is being seriously hampered as the posts of huge teachers have remained vacant for long.
Teachers alleged that scarcity of headmasters in the government primary schools in the district is hampering the academic and administrative activities. It is tough to run teaching smoothly owing to huge pressure of extra work.
The government is developing the infrastructure of the schools every year but is yet to fill in vacant posts and develop the monitoring system of primary education, they further alleged.
District Primary Education Officer AM Shahjahan Siddique admitted that the academic disruption in the primary schools on account of the vacant posts has become a matter of concern, saying the administrative tasks of those schools are being greatly hampered.
Teachers coming from distant areas of the district do not want to continue teaching in the schools. Consequently they are being transferred to their own areas as a result the number of vacant posts is on the rise, he also said.
The education official however said necessary steps are underway to fulfil the vacant posts of teachers. Process of appointing teachers is going on. He also hopped that the crisis will be resolved very soon.
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'Monga' departs
A BSS report says: The seasonal lean period of 'monga' passed off from Rangpur region without any bite for the sixth consecutive time this year following huge change in the overall socioeconomic condition of the common people.
The poor led normal life this year during the two-month long seasonal lean period of 'monga' though it generally prevailed from Aswin 1 to Kartik 30 causing immense suffering to them due to joblessness even a decade ago.
The situation has been changed now sustainably as the present government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has irreversibly eradicated 'monga' relieving the poor from the decades-old curse of extreme poverty.
According to social experts, the poor, day- and farm-labourers did not feel any bite of 'monga' this year for the sixth consecutive time during the two-month long lean period that continued till Kartik 30 last.
