The BJP leader and member of national finance committee of BJP Yuva Morcha, Amit Kapoor has blamed the State education department for defaming the teaching fraternity of Uttarakhand. In a release issued to the press, Kapoor said that teachers were stopped by some people when they were commuting to their schools in some areas of Dehradun district recently and in Badwala the teachers were also misbehaved with. He said that recent attempt to file cases against teachers by the education department on the orders of Director General of school education spawned such incidences of misbehavior as some people used the opportunity to behave badly with the teachers.
The youth BJP leaders said that the morale of teachers is necessary to be alleviated to improve the level of education in the State. He said that department should work out a plan to ensure attendance of teachers in the schools instead of issuing orders to force teachers to live in a specific geographic area near the place of their posting. Kapoor said that entire teacher community of the state is agitated over the way the department is dealing with them. He said that absenteeism of the teachers should be dealt with a strong hand but it does not mean that criminal cases are filed against absentee teachers. Kapoor suggested that the department should come up with constructive measures and avoid confrontationist mindset.