SRINAGAR, Oct 10:
Cutting across party lines, members in the Legislative Assembly today raised the issue of shortage of teaching staff and unspent Central funds under RMSA and SSA in the State.
The members raised the issue during Zero-Hour in the House alleging that educational institutions in their respective constituencies are without teaching staff.
The National Panthers Party (NPP) member Harshdev Singh raising the issue said under RMSA the Central has sanctioned appointment of 27000 teachers in the Education Department in the State.
He said not a single teacher has been appointed. Infact, he said, there are thousands of vacancies of teaching staff in the State which remained unfilled.
Mr Singh said funds alloted to the State under SSA also remained unspent.
He said under the central programme, 330 schools were to be upgraded from primary to middle in the State during 2011-12. But he said not a single school has been upgraded when the funds lapsed.
The PDP member Bashart Bukhari said Government in reply to his question has said attachments and deployment of teachers has been banned.
But, he said, to his suprise Government in reply to second part of the question admitted that 20 teaching staff in his Sangrma constituency are attached.
Congress member Mohammad Sharief Naiz said 270 posts of teaching staff are vacant in his Bhadarwah constituency alone. This, he said, will give how the situation in elsewhere in the district.
About a dozen other members also raised the issue of shortage of teaching staff in education institutions in their areas. (UNI)
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