Despite recruitment of teachers in the Government schools in Chakrata by the Education department, teachers’ attendance is not up to the mark. The local residents of Chakrata expressed resentment over this during Tehsil Diwas, which was hosted in Chakrata to address the people’s grievance on their thresholds on Tuesday.
A total of 70 complaints were received from the people, living in rural areas of the region.Dehradun DM Chandresh Kumar, who presided over the programme, said, “We envisaged Tehsil Diwas for Chakrata in Dehradun to have the grievances of the residents in the remotest areas of the district promptly redressed.”
Kumar directed the district officials to take measures for promptly redressing complaints received during Tehsil Diwas. He set a deadline of a fortnight for this These complaints should be forwarded to the department concerned immediately and such reports should be provided at Tehsil concerned too, the DM stressed.Meanwhile, during Tehsil Diwas, 70 public complaints related to education, social welfare, revenue and others were received. Most of the complaints, however, were related to education.
On the occasion, locals expressed anger with the department officials over teachers skipping classes, citing one excuse or the other. Taking cognisance of this complaint, DM Kumar directed the education officer to keep a register for the parents in each school to note down the teachers’ attendance as well as their performance on a daily basis. He appealed to the parents to keep tabs on the teachers.
On the occasion, the block education officers were directed to review the teachers’ attendance from time to time and take action against the defaulters. The district officials were directed to keep notice board at their offices so that relevant information regarding their movements and the like can be displayed on a daily basis.
Kumar urged the locals to cooperate with the Government officials in the implementation of the developmental schemes in the region. Moreover, the district officials were directed to convene meetings at gram and nyay panchat level every month and to address the complaints received from the public at the earliest. The department officials were directed too to coordinate among themselves to complete the projects on time.
Others present in the Tehsil were Additional DM Pratap Singh Shah, SDM AK Pandey, Tehsidar Sangeeta Kanojiya and other officers.Tehsil Diwas was also organised at Sadar and social welfare, revenue, child development complaints were received. In all, 69 out of 98 complaints were redressed by the officers on spot and the rest was forwarded to the department concerned with the direction to have them redressed in 15 days, it is learnt.