Ramanaguda/ Gunpur: Angered by the shortage of teachers at Omidingi Primary School in Nilamguda panchayat of Ramanaguda block in Rayagada district, parents, students and school committee members locked up the school’s gate Wednesday. They also threatened that they would not open the school gate until a solution is found.
The school was established in 1952, and around 200 students from Class I to Class X study here. There are only nine teachers. One of them is on maternity leave, and another teacher is on an indefinite leave due to medical problems.
Similarly, one teacher has gone for training, and another one was sent fulltime to the Cluster Resource Centre. Only five teachers are left to teach the students.
Apart from this, the school doesn’t have a headmaster, while the in-charge headmaster Tankadhar Gamanga will retire this month. Students are worried as the final exam is approaching. President of the school management committee, Ganapati Bidika and others demanded a permanent solution to the problem.
They had locked the school gate December 19 for the same reason, but no action was taken, the parents said. Students staged protests in front of the school for five hours, but no department officer visited the school.
PNN