Availability of qualified teachers and the student-teacher ratio are the issued presently standing at the centre of difficulties in improving the quality education in government run schools. Though Government has taken the initiative of clubbing schools to overcome the shortage of teachers in schools for the purposes of creating standards in the student-teacher ratio in government run schools but after the announcement of the results of class 12 examination in Kashmir this year the zero percent results in several schools of some valley districts particularly the Bandipora district was attributed to shortage of Principals and teachers in the concerned schools. Keeping in view the zero percent results in schools rendered headless besides shortage of teachers the issue of shortage teachers has become as serious issue of concern as is the development of infrastructure of schools for the Government. After the recent enrollment drive and the clubbing of schools improvement is though noticeable in government run schools barring a few exceptions in remote rural areas of some districts but the shortage of teachers in government run schools demands greater attention of the top brass of the school education department. In fact the shortage of teachers in government run schools of remote rural areas is also a cause of alarmingly high dropout rates in the government run schools in remote rural areas. Since the competition of government run schools with private schools has also grown unprecedentedly even in remote rural areas of both Kashmir valley and Jammu division,the school education department is facing the twin challenges of shortage of teachers and development of basic infrastructural facilities in schools of villages particularly remote rural areas in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division.
Corrective measures are not demanding only for improving the primary education system but are equally suited for improving the secondary school education system as well. By all standards of understandabilities reducing the shortage of teachers and upgrading the basic infrastructural facilities in government run schools of villages particularly remote rural areas are the only two ways to bring about a perceptible change in both the primary and secondary education systems in government run schools across Jammu & Kashmir.
While it has been noticed in several independent education survey reports that two-thirds of youth eligible for secondary and senior secondary education remain outside the school system today, the cause of the drop out rates at secondary and senior secondary education levels are not thoroughly investigated for the purpose of corrective measures in the secondary school education system . So the corrective measures are not demanding only for improving the primary education system but are equally suited for improving the secondary school education system as well. By all standards of understandabilities reducing the shortage of teachers and upgrading the basic infrastructural facilities in government run schools of villages particularly remote rural areas are the only two ways to bring about a perceptible change in both the primary and secondary education systems in government run schools across Jammu & Kashmir.
