The teams of the education department raided 1,120 schools across the State in a surprise inspection on Thursday and to their surprise, six schools were found locked. Interestingly, five of these schools are located in Haridwar district.
On the instruction of Director General (DG) school education, D Senthil Pandian, the education department teams also found 37 teachers absent from their duties without any intimation.
The inspection teams found that out of 90,861 enrolled students, 28,936 students were absent on the day from the schools. The team also found that out of 5,028 working teachers 3,636 were present on the day while 1,392 were absent. It was found that 871 teachers were on official duties and 484 had taken prior permission of the leave.
These teams found that 101 school buildings are in dilapidated state and need immediate repairs.