Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 10: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by All Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh Teacher Federation seeking direction for framing policy for maintaining student-teacher ratio in the schools without any discrimination, Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sanjay Dhar has issued directions for filing status report in respect of various infrastructure projects and progress made in the student-teacher ratio in both the urban and rural areas.
In the PIL, it has been submitted that issues regarding transfers of the teachers, which are made so casually by the Head of the Department that sometimes, a school having a meager strength of children gets teachers whose number exceeds the children studying in schools.
On the other hand, the schools which are situated at a far off distance remained deprived of adequate number of teachers with the result the next generation remains deprived of its fundamental right– Right to Education merely because of corrupt and vested interest of some of the officers.
As per the petitioner’s information, 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 conditions and no steps are being taken by the concerned authorities in this regard.
Follow our WhatsApp channel