23 schools in Rangang-Yangang face teacher shortage

NAMCHI, 21 May: A total of 23 schools under Rangang-Yangang Constituency, South Sikkim are facing huge shortage of teachers. Schools of the area, from Senior Secondary to Primary levels are running without adequate number of teachers even after three months into the school session.
Hem Kumar Gurung, SDF Student Wing’s constituency-level convener, informed that Yangang Senior Secondary School, Upper Yangang JHS, Pathing JHS, Karungthang JHS, Samruk JHS, Namphok Secondary School, Tingtaar Primary School, Neya Secondary School, Lingmoo Senior Secondary School, Kolthang JHS, Rangang Primary School, Sangmoo Junior High School, Mengli JHS Banday Primary School Jogi Dara Primary School, Gangla Primary School, Majua Primary School under Rangang-Yangang constituency, South Sikkim lack the required number of teachers.
Schools of these areas, which mostly fall under the remotest belt of South district, have been facing shortage of teachers for a long time, he informed. And the shortfall is at all levels. There is shortage of Computer teachers, Headmasters, Primary teachers, Graduate Teachers, Language teachers, Sports teachers etc., said Mr Gurung, adding, “We welcome HRDD’s plans to transfer 280 excess teachers of the urban areas to the villages.”
It may be mentioned here that the Human Resource Development Department (HRDD), in a press release yesterday informed that schools in the South are facing a shortage of 136 teachers. The department has clarified this process is not an act to victimize the teachers but on the demand of panchayats, concerned school management committees and school heads. In the latest round of transfers, 65 primary regular teachers have been transferred to South district.
Meanwhile, a section of teachers have expressed their resentment against the transfers and are demanding equality for all.