Education department authority issue 33 show-cause and dies non notices to teachers including heads of institutions for dereliction of duty, visits to remote schools continue

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, February 20, 2025

In a planned move to improve the functioning of schools all over the state the department of secondary education has issued show-cause and dies non notices to altogether 33 teachers including heads of institutions for dereliction of duty in running schools properly and in imparting lessons to students. From February 17 a weeklong ‘Foundational Literacy and Numeracy’ (FLN) programme has been launched and this will continue till March 1.

It is to monitor the implementation of the programme as well as to improve the functioning of schools, specially in remote areas that a team of senior officials of the secondary education department led by director N.C.Sharma and comprising among others by joint director Rakesh Debbarma and Rudradip Nath have started visiting schools in remote and far-flung areas . This is possibly the first time that a group of senior officials are visiting many hitherto unreached schools in remote areas. Sources in the education department said that the remote schools already visited by the departmental team headed by director N.C.Sharma include schools in Jampui (Bhangmun), Dashda, Kanchanpur, Damcherra, Kalacherra, Jubaraj Nagar, Panisagar, Kumarghat and Kailasahar. This is for the first time that a team of high officials of the education department have visited so many remote schools and this will continue in the coming days to cover all remote schools in all subdivisions including Khowai, Kamalpur, Gandacherra, Longtarai as well as schools in West, South and Sepahijala districts.

Sources said that the basic aim of the ongoing FLN programme is to tone up the linguistic and numerical aptitude of the school students between classes I and V. In the course of visit it has been found that some of the schools are functioning well while there are lapses in functioning and performance of other schools and as a result 33 teachers including heads of institutions have been show-caused and issued dies non notices. The ongoing school visits by officials of the education department will continue to constantly monitor the working of schools, specially in remote areas so that students can develop themselves holistically.