Muktsar govt school markets itself to attract students; Teachers launch poster campaign, go door-to-door to get enrolment

Muktsar govt school markets itself to attract students

Teachers launch poster campaign, go door-to-door to get enrolment

A poster put up by staff of Government Primary School, Sotha village, in Muktsar district. A Tribune photograph

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Sotha (Muktsar), March 4

Claiming that government schools are as good as private schools, teachers of Government Primary School at Sotha village here have pasted posters at all prominent locations to get maximum enrolment of students in the next academic session beginning April 1.

The school currently has 150 students and 46 students appeared in Class V exams. The school will be left with just 104 students in the next session.

Thus making a joint effort, they got nearly 300 posters printed, highlighting the facilities being provided by the state government.

Ram Singh, headmaster of the school, said, “The state government is providing free-of-cost education to all students. Besides, it is giving free-of-cost uniforms, nutritious mid-day meal and textbooks as well. The teachers are also well educated. We are appealing to the village residents to send their children to this school.”

“We have printed these posters on our own. Besides, we are also going door-to-door urging parents to send their children to this school,” added Ram Singh.

The school has currently six teachers, including the headmaster.

Jaspal Monga, Deputy District Education Officer, Muktsar, said, “This is really a good step taken by teachers. Other government schools should also follow this practice. The infrastructure and staff of government schools is as good as private schools and parents should send their children to government schools.”

Sources in the Education Department, however, said the teachers started this practice fearing rationalisation of staff due to decreasing number of students.

Mostly such practices are adopted only by private schools to attract students.

Courtesy: The Tribune