New guidelines restrict teachers from leaving school for official work

Taking cognisance of government teachers’ habit of skipping schools while pretending to hand over important letter to the senior officers, the education department has issuing a fresh guidelines, restricting such practice and permitting them to leave schools when study gets over. The guidelines also suggested the head of schools to forward information of letter thorough mail and dak.

It has been a general practice of teachers leaving classes when head of the schools directing them to hand over important daks to senior officials posted in DEO, Sankul and Shiksha Sankul. A rough estimate suggest that on an average 40-50 pieces of important information in set format are sough from the school by the education officials who have to forward the same to the directorate concerned.

This so called duty cost dearly to the students whose study get affected due to sudden leave of teachers in primary, upper primary and high secondary schools across the state. The department took cognizance of this practice and issued fresh direction circulating a guidelines restricting sudden brief ‘holidays’ for teachers out of school time.

It has been mandated now that headmasters or teacher would not leave schools to submit information in person whenever they are asked to.

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