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Future of 55 students of Class 10 at Shilpanchala High School in Rasulgarh put in darkness as teachers agitate over non-payment of salary for two years
Bhubaneswar: With the gate of Shilpanchala High School in Rasulgarh Industrial Estate here remaining locked by the school’s agitating teachers, the future of the school’s 55 students of Class X has been pushed into darkness.
The teachers staged a dharna Saturday in protest against non-payment of their salary for the past two years. They locked the gate of the school during the protests.
Sources said the school, in existence since 1989, has been under the active jurisdiction of IDCO. Most students of the school are the children of IDCO employees. The school has teaching facilities from Class I to X with an intake of a total of 650 students.
While the Board of Secondary Education has already declared the schedules of the high school certificate examination, which start February 22, the school is yet to complete the process of filling up forms. Even the syllabus of the class X students is reportedly yet to be completed.
Raghunath Patra, a parent of a class X student of the school, said the action of the school’s teachers just months before the board examinations was unacceptable. “I got my daughter admitted at this school only because of financial constraints. Now I am regretting this decision. I do not have the capacity to put my daughter in English medium schools. I am in deep distress over the present situation at this school,” said Patra.
Shilpanchala High School Principal Kamadev Mahapatra said that the school management committee was dissolved two years ago, due to which several problems have been posed before teachers, other staff and the students. “No one is taking any step to reconstitute the committee. No one seems to notice that we have been working here for the past two years without money. We are human beings and have families,” said Mahapatra, urging the authorities to take a sympathetic view of the teachers’ problems and take appropriate decisions immediately.
