Although there are enough teachers in the primary schools of different municipality in Kishoreganj, there is an ongoing crisis in rural institutions. As a result, quality education is depriving the children of low and middle income families of the countryside.
It is reported that the number of students in most of the schools is also satisfactory due to the good quality of transportation in the government primary schools in different municipalities of the district. But due to the influence of the district education committee there has been discrimination between the teachers of the primary schools in the minicipality and rural areas.
According to the District Primary Office, in the rural areas of Kishoreganj Sadar Upazila, there are 27 posts vacant. In Kishoreganj district, there are 839 vacancies in most of the rural areas. There are additional teachers in the district's 8 municipal government primary schools as agaist to students.
According to the rules of the government, every school should have one teacher as against 40 students. These include a teacher against a certain number of students in a government primary school in the municipality, as against a high-level adjacent primary school student against a certain number of additional teachers. Locals alleged that the influential people of the district's education committee had recruited teachers of their choice by creating additional posts in these schools.
In the field level, it was found that in rural schools, where the students could not be properly taught due to the teacher crisis, the quota of the teachers of the rural schools had been cut and additional teachers were being appointed by the municipality. The quota has been reported by the district's primary education office. On the other hand, in some rural schools, there are only two or three teachers teach in the schools. Due to lack of adequate teachers, discrimination in municipality and rural areas, disadvantages are being disrupted in schools in these areas.
Spoke to an assistant teacher who did not want to be published his name in a primary school. He said that although there are four teachers against the quantitative students in our school, for the last four years I have been carrying out teaching activities with three teachers. This is disrupting the schooling.
A head teacher at a government primary school in a village in Sadar Upazila, who is reluctant to be named said, "Although there are four teachers against about 200 students in our school, we three teachers have been teaching for the last five years."
In this regard, Subrata Kumar Banik, Kishoreganj District Primary Education Officer said, "I will discuss it in the district education committee meeting if there are additional teachers than students in the municipality schools." In each primary school, according to the rules of the government, whatever is supposed to be done will be done, as it should be.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education and ICT) Md Habibur Rahman said, "I am aware of the rural area teacher crisis." Initially, teacher recruitment cases have been halted for public reasons. The case will be resolved very quickly and once the teacher recruitment process is completed, the crisis will no longer exist.”
