SED facing acute teaching staff shortage: Govt
Attaching, deploying teaching staff in administrative departments hampers academics of students: Shantmanu
Riyaz Bhat
Srinagar, Apr 17 (KNO): School Education Department Wednesday said that it was facing acute shortage of teaching staff and attaching as well as deploying the teaching staff in the administrative departments was hampering the academics of students.
The department in this regard urged the administrative departments to restrict the deployment and attachment of educational teaching and non-teaching staff to ensure effective functioning of the educational institutions across Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Financial Commissioner (Additional Chief Secretary) School Education Department Shantmanu in a communique said, “It has been observed that the teaching staff of School Education Department are being deployed and attached by the Deputy Commissioners of UT of Jammu and Kashmir in various offices for administrative works and other tasks without prior approval and information of their administrative Department.”
“It is the primary duty of teaching staff to provide quality education to students for which they have been appointed by the department and shall not divert their core role,” Shantmanu said.
The financial commissioner further said, “Attachment and deployment of the teaching staff in the offices other than educational institutions results in hampering academics of students as the department is already facing acute shortage of teaching staff.”
“It is therefore, impressed upon all the Deputy Commissioners of UT of Jammu and Kashmir to restrict the deployment and attachment of educational staff teaching and non-teaching to ensure and maintain stability, fairness and the effective functioning of the educational institutions in all the districts of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir,” Shantmanu said.
The financial commissioner also said that in case of requirement of staff, the matter should be referred to the Designated Authority viz Directorate of School Education or administrative department—(KNO)