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Appointment of hostel wardens sought

KORAPUT: The Koraput district chapter of All Orissa Welfare Teachers & Inspecting Officers’ Association (AOWT&IO) has said it will lock up school hostels from April 1 if the Government does not appoint hostel wardens for their schools.

At a meeting held at Jagannath temple on Sunday, Kailash Chandra Bramha, president of the district chapter of the association said teachers were facing continuous humiliation from officials and public after the recent vigilance raid conducted in the District Welfare Office at Koraput where the DWO was caught with handsome amount of money in his table drawer .

Following the incident, the State Government also in its recent letters had directed the teachers to take the signature of the students after each meal given in the school hostel.

Reacting to this, the association alleged that the teachers would have no time to teach in the class room spending hours to take the signature of hundreds of students .

Further the move by the Government to ask the headmasters to open school passbooks with a joint account with the Welfare Extension Officers (WEO) of the blocks was also a case of lost faith in the integrity of the headmasters, Mr.Bramha said.

The association in a memorandum submitted to the district Collector asked the Government to appoint superintendents for the school hostels before the beginning of the new academic year in April.

They said it was doen similarly between 1952 and 1971 in the State.

The teachers were interested to teach lessons to the students rather than managing the hostels, he added. More than 200 teachers from the district have submitted their letters of support to the initiative taken up by the association.

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