The teachers of Sambalpur district and rest parts of western region had a dreary day with no students in their schools on Thursday.
Although the Met Department made earlier forecast that the impact of Titli would not be that much aggressive in western Odisha, the State Government on Wednesday, as a precautionary measure, had declared all the schools and Anganwadi Centres to remain closed for two days. But towards late night of the same day, the headmasters/headmistresses got phone calls from their seniors –BEOs and DEOs that the holiday was only for students and not for the teachers.
Hence, the teachers were asked to go to their schools, but there was no work.
“There was no justification for declaring holiday for schools in western Odisha as the impact of Titli was declared to be ‘no dangerous’. Still the Government declared holiday as precautionary point of view. But we fail to understand why they called us to come to school for no specific works,” said a headmaster of the school of the town.
“Really life in school without students is totally monotonous as the student-teacher relationship can’t be described in words. We have to spend an idle day today. And it will continue tomorrow .i.e. on Friday and we don’t know how to spend another day,” he added.