Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by All Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Teachers Federation seeking directions to State for framing policy for maintaining student-teacher ratio in the schools without any discrimination, Division Bench of State High Court comprising Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Kumar has granted final opportunity of three weeks to the State for filing status report in respect of primary/upper primary schools.
After hearing Advocate Frahan Mirza for the PIL whereas AAG Ravinder Gupta for the State, the DB further directed that the status report shall also indicate as to whether the ratio is being maintained throughout the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier, Advocate Frahan Mirza submitted that transfers of the teachers are made so casually by the Education Department that sometimes a school having a meager strength of children gets teachers whose number exceeds the children studying in the school.
“On the other hand, the schools which are situated at a far off distance remain deprived of adequate number of teachers with the result the next generation remains deprived of its fundamental right— Right to Education merely because of vested interest of some of the officers”, the petitioner said, adding “the student-teacher ratio in the schools which are located in the cities is much more than the ratio in villages”.
“Moreover, the infrastructure of majority of the schools is in dilapidated condition and no steps are being taken by the concerned authorities”, the PIL said.
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