Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: As the academic year draws to a close, teachers across the State are buckling under enormous pressure. While examinations, paper checking, and result preparation already keep them fully occupied, the administration has simultaneously assigned additional non-teaching responsibilities, triggering widespread frustration.
Teachers' unions told Lokmat Times that teachers are engaged in annual assessments, answer sheet evaluation, result declaration, updating student records at this time of year and groundwork for the upcoming academic year.
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'Triple Load'
On top of routine duties, three major responsibilities have been added simultaneously: SCERT training for the revised syllabus of Classes 2 to 4, census duty as enumerators and supervisors between May 16 and June 14, and Booth Level Officer (BLO) duty for electoral roll verification.
With all three converging at once, teachers face impossible choices. Non-compliance on any front risks official action, leaving teachers feeling completely trapped.
Akhil Bhartiya Urdu Shikshak Sangh (ABUSS) founder Sajid Ahmed demanded that teachers be assigned only essential duties, calling on the Education Department, General Administration Department, Election Commission, and Census Department to coordinate workload planning, failing which, an agitation will be launched.