65 Rangpur pry schools without headmasters
Sixty-five government primary schools in Rangpur's Badarganj upazila are running without regular headmasters for long, hampering academic and office work.
Moreover, shortage of assistant teachers affects education of nearly 9,750 boys and girls studying in those schools.
According to Badarganj upazila primary education office, there are 176 government primary schools in the upazila, of which only 111 schools have regular headmasters.
Some of the 65 schools are even running without headmasters for more than a decade.
Many teachers of those schools said, in absence of regular headmasters, senior assistant teachers are working as acting headmasters and performing additional duties alongside taking classes.
Acting Headmaster of Bujruk Hajipur Government Primary School Mohammad Kashem Ali said the school has been running without headmaster for five years.
Due to the absence of regular headmaster and teachers' crisis he has been facing huge problems since taking over the charge as acting headmaster, he said.
Besides, Madarganj Government Primary School has no regular headmaster for the last 11 years and Firoz Ahmed, a senior teacher of the institution, has been working as acting headmaster since then.
Similarly, the post of the headmaster of Matherhat Government Primary School has been lying vacant for nearly 11 years.
Upazila primary education office is yet to appoint an acting headmaster since its former acting headmaster Shikha Banu went on one year leave for training.
Badarganj Upazila Education Officer Anwarul Islam said they prepared a database of the vacant posts of the headmasters and sent it to Directorate of Primary Education.
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