Teachers playing truant: Many teachers double-crossing the education department

IIPM Mumbai Campus

While the state run schools in Punjab are reeling under a shortage of teachers, those working are playing truant by taking long leaves. According to the sources there are about 1100 teachers who have gone on a "foreign trip" and have not returned even after their leaves have been exhausted. The absentee teachers include 250 primary teachers, 190 senior secondary school teachers and four principals.

Some of these teachers had faxed applications for extension of their leave but most of these were rejected. However, they have not resumed their duty as yet. According to the reports, many teachers who go abroad on long leave actually work in foreign countries, while drawing salaries from their existing jobs in India. When they return, they use political pressure to get arrears. This has been going on for years. Surjeet Singh Dhiman, Principal, Government High School, Jalandhar told TSI, “I have repeatedly written to the education department about a teacher in my school who has been in England for about a year on visitor visa. But it has fallen on deaf ears.” The state education department has of late woken up to the problem and is busy collecting data regarding the absent teachers. According to sources, the department is contemplating to sack all the teachers who have not resumed their jobs even after the exhaustion of their leave.

A primary school teacher in Ropar district told TSI on the condition of anonymity, “There are four teachers in our school which has a strength of 200 students. One of the teachers has gone abroad on a long leave and has not returned even after his leaves have expired. One of his friends told me that the said teacher is working there and earning Rs.50,000 a month.” It is learnt that many absentee teachers are in no mood to return to their jobs because they are earning much more than the salary they get here. Some teachers are even planning to take their families abroad.

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