School functions sans headmaster or assistant headmaster at Mao
Source: The Sangai Express
Senapati, August 13 2014 :
It may sound weird and unbelievable to many especially the Education Department, District Administration and Educationists who are campaigning for quality and compulsory education through sufficient teachers, better infrastructure, student teacher ratio, free educational materials and other student's benefits, but according to School Development Committee of Sadar Patel School, Mao gate.
A statement issued by the Development Committee of one of the oldest school in Senapati District which is credited to pioneering education system in Mao areas, it alleged that, it has been facing shortage of teacher since 2012 till date with no Headmaster or Assistant Headmaster or even Chowkidar, adding that Sadar Patel High School Mao was established in the year 1961 .
It has classes from V to X with 134 students in the current year.
The school began to face shortage of teaching staffs with effect from 2012 which was made known officially to all the concerned authorities including the Students' Union.
However, the State Government or concerned departments are unaware of the situation at the said school.
It may be noted that, as per the requisite of a full-fledged Govt.high school, the school requires 20 teaching and 3 non-teaching staffs, however at present, the school is functioning with only 6 teachers and 2 non-teaching staffs, it alleged.
Further, it also added that there are excess teacher in the some parts of the State especially the valley based schools but shortages everywhere in hills of Manipur, for which, the SDC opined that, the only option is "Give teacher to run the classes or give order to cancel the classes" .