Teachers and principal absent, cooks mentor students at UP school

LUCKNOW: The students of a

primary school

at

Hardoi

district in Uttar pradesh had their school cooks acting as their mentors in absence of their school teachers.


The incident took place in

Madhoganj

area of Hardoi district, where all the teaching staff of a school including the principal were absent from their duties o the students returned to their homes. After some time, the incident came into the knowledge of district level authorities who ordered an enquiry into the absence of teachers without any notice.

Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) from Hardoi, Hemant Rao said the department was investigating the matter and the people responsible would be punished as per rules.

On the other hand, the villagers of Madhoganj complained that the school had one headmaster named Sudhir Kumar and two assistant teachers named Shilpi and Jitendra, but no one among them reached school on time causing the education of students to suffer.

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