Bhayandar: The general body will decide the fate of 24 teachers who are running from pillar-to-post for getting absorbed in the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC)-run schools for the past six months. Despite tall claims made by the civic administration, on their efforts of enhancing the education infrastructure and upgrading teaching standards at par with their private schools, the agony of 17 teachers assigned by the state government and 7 by the Palghar zilla parishad, narrate an altogether different tale.
Owing to the increasing exodus of students from government and private aided primary schools, many teachers are on the verge of losing their jobs. To resolve the issue, the state government’s education department has formulated a strategy by accommodating the surplus teachers in municipal, local self-government schools or those run by aided private or minority institutions. Subsequently, 24 teachers had been referred to join the Marathi, Hindi and Urdu medium schools run by the MBMC.
However, thanks to the apathy shown by officials attached to the education department, all these teachers are running from pillar- to-post for getting themselves absorbed in the civic schools since December-2018. This despite of the fact that these schools are facing a shortage of 65 teachers for the past several years. “The pupil-teacher rosters are being verified to formulate uniformity in the organizational set-up, following which the general body house will take a call on the absorption process on Friday,” said, education committee chief Jyotsna Hasnale.
Suresh Golani
