Government schools in Dakshina Kannada district are facing a shortage of guest teachers as the new academic year approaches. The recruitment process has not yet begun, causing concern among school authorities and teachers. Learn more about the challenges and requests for timely recruitment in this article.
Mangaluru: Guest teachers working in government primary and high schools are pushed to hardship, as their salaries are delayed and pending for several.
The 37-year-old says she never imagined she would be rolling beedis after nine years of teaching English and science to young children.
MANGALURU: Between her modest earning as a guest teacher and her husband’s food vending business, Chitralekha managed to run the household and put their three children through school. She first lost her job as schools shut during the pandemic and with the lockdown, her husband’s vend in Puttur shut down.
Now, Chitralekha and her husband, Sundar Naik, both roll beedis to put food on the table. Their eldest son is a firstyear PU student, followed by a daughter in SSLC and a boy in Class 2 in a government school. The family lives in small house some 50km from Puttur.