Srinagar, March 03 : The sstudents and their parents staged a protest and locked down the school against shortage of teaching staff in from south Kashmir Islamabad district in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Scores of students along with their parents assembled in the premises of Government High School Thaman Koot in Verinag area of the district and staged the protest and sought the administration to look into the matter and provide them proper teaching facility.“The protesting students and parents locked down the institution,” reports said.
“We are around 11 classes in the high school and authorities have provided us only six teachers to teach, how will the six teachers manage two hundred students,” one of protesting students said.
“On the one hand the regime is claiming to improve the literacy rate, on the other hand they are not providing adequate staff to the schools.” The protesting students, parents have appealed to the higher authorities to take notice of the issue and fill the vacant posts of teachers at the earliest. sources