HYDERABAD: Government schools in the city are facing severe teaching staff shortage.The situation has not improved even a week after the new academic year began.While private schools have started classes in earnest, in many government schools, the attendance percentage of students is not favourable due to lack of teachers.For example, there are just four teachers at the Government High School in Balkampet for around 200 students, when the actual requirement is at least seven teachers from Class I to X. P Susheendhra Rao, district educational officer, Hyderabad told Express they recently conducted a review of teaching staff in government schools and found the problem of less teaching staff prevailed in all primary and high schools. “As many as 802 government schools are functioning in the city and most are running without proper teaching faculty.We have made a list of 50 schools which require urgent postings of teachers,” he said.He said they are having a tough time in appointing teachers and is increasing every year. “We have already chalked out a plan to recruit more than 800 Vidya volunteers and post them in schools where teacher strength is low. As the problem exists in both primary and high schools, we are planning to appoint teachers in a phased manner,’’ he added.In all, there are 3,037 schools in the twin cities.“Buildings and other infrastructure would be provided to all schools under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund, NABARD and Sarva Siksha Abhiyan,” Rao said.He said the government has identified dilapidated school buildings and decided to build about 800 rooms for primary and high schools this year.
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