little children are bearing the brunt of negligence by district education department that has failed in distributing books among the students of standard I to VIII in spite of receiving the consignment five days back. As a result, books are stocked in the classrooms and children are bound to sit under tree on the premises of Azabpur primary school.
School Principal Abha Guar has her own reasons to conduct the classes in open. She said that the two rooms were vacated following the direction of district education officer for storing the books around 10-day back. As the books were stored in two classrooms, classes for IV and V were being conducted under a tree.
Cluster Resource Centre coordinator Naresh Prasad Raturi, who was unaware about the fact, expressed anguish and said that he would look into the matter and would try to find out on whose instructions books were stored in the classrooms.
He said that all the text books received from the education department are stored in the rooms of CRC. He further said that allocated books will be distributed to the schools soon. According to him, schools have not received three out of eight text books of class VIII, two out of eight text books for class VII and six out of eight text books for class VI.
Dehradun chief district education officer Shiv Prasad Khali said that all there are clear instructions to distribute text books soon after receiving the lot from education directorate. In this case, action will be taken against the officials responsible for delaying distribution of books. He would personally look into the matter.
School education deputy director Chetan Nautiyal said that around 90 per cent text books were sent to districts and officials at education department were directed to distribute these without delay.