BALASORE: Opposing the transfer of three teachers in a day, students of a government-run high school in Balasore resorted to indefinite strike on Saturday.
Agitating students of Janardan High School in Barbatia under Bhograi block urged district education office to revoke the transfer orders of Mathematics, Hindi and Science teachers on the day.
“Due to the transfer of these trained graduate teachers (TGTs), we have been left in the lurch as exams are drawing near. Besides cancelling the transfer orders, the department should also fill up vacant posts of a headmaster, clerk and three peons in the school,” said students Dibyajoti Priyadarshani Patra and Sagarika Bhuyan.
Sources said, a TGT Arun Kumar Mohanty has been serving as in-charge headmaster of the school for three years now.
With a total of 150 students, the school functions with Mohanty who also engages in teaching, a Sankrit teacher and a PET.
On the day, aggrieved guardians submitted a memorandum to district Collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy and sought his intervention in the connection at the earliest.
Bhograi MLA Ananta Das said that he will direct the district education officer (DEO) Bishnu Charan Sutar to look into the matter.