Madrassas facing crisis of teaching staffs

MALDA, June 22: A total of 26 senior madrassas in six districts of north Bengal are facing acute crisis of its teaching staffs for students. Present teachers of senior Madrassa, deal primary level students, brought the matter to the notice of education department recently. After the retirement of teachers not a single teacher has been appointed those senior Madrassas for many years. The problem came to light when the education department was preparing to organise an orientation programme of health education for senior Madrassa teachers. Three day training programme has been started from yesterday at district institute of education, research and training at Shobhanagar in English Bazaar. At least one teacher from each senior madrassa was asked to attend the orientation programme. The Malda district inspector of schools has planned to inform the government to sort out their problem soon. The D I (secondary) in Malda Mr Chinmay Sarkar said: “Senior Madrassas who deal with primary level students are not under the control of district primary school council. As a result, the DPSC could not appoint teachers for them”. On the other hand, the school service commission used to recommend teachers for secondary section of schools and madrassas. “In fact there was not appropriate authority for the recruitment of teachers in senior madrassas”, Mr Sarkar added. n SNS