Villagers living close to the Line of Control (LoC) inTundiTrarPanchayat staged a demonstration against the shortage of staff inGovernment Primary School Sharma Basti on Wednesday.
The residents of the Panchayats assembled in front of theschool and raised slogans against the Zonal Education Officer Manjakote andChief Education Officer Rajouri.
The agitating villagers claimed a single teacher is runningthe school having strength of 50 students.
“We live under the shadow of gun along the LoC and future ofour children is in dark as school is running on God’s mercy,” said one of theprotesters.
The villagers said that their deputation called upon CEORajouri on July 25 and apprised him their problems.
“The CEO Rajouri ordered ZEO Manjakote to depute one moreteacher to the school but we haven’t seen anyone in the school till date,” theysaid.
The villagers warned to go on indefinite hunger strikewithin the school premise if the issue of staff shortage is not addressed inthree days.
CEO Rajouri, Mohammad Ashraf Rather said that a teacher hasbeen deputed to the school “but he is on leave and now another teacher has beenasked to join the school”.