AGARTALA, December 14 (TIWN): “How much you need? Where is your role towards students? Why the students don’t attend your classes?” asked Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today, to the teachers who remained present during the Tripura College Teachers’ Association (TCTA) 14th biennial state conference at Agartala Matangini Pritilata Hall.

In these recent days, the relation between the teachers and students has almost turned into a business like relation, said CM Manik Sarkar today while addressing the 14^th Bi-lennial state conference at Agartala Matangini Pritilata Hall. Adding to it Mr. Sarkar further said that the teachers of the present time has attired a selfish attitude with a business making profession through their regular tution service to the students.

Admitting that the teachers do not attend the college or schools in time and are irregular Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today urged the teachers of the state to develop themselves like a magnetic attachment with the students. CM  said that the children are the future of the nation and state as well. Therefore it is the teachers who can nourish them and build a better character of the students, said Manik Sarkar.  

Asking the question to the teachers as how much money they need more? Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said that it is not the money that matters rather it is one’s individual effort and have to take a stupendous tasks to nourish the children in schools and colleges through which one teacher can profile them as a good teacher.

It is to be mentioned here that earlier, the state government has issued the third formal circular over the past seven years directing teachers in government-run and government-aided schools to stop private tuition. The circular was issued after the release of a report compiled by a Delhi-based NGO, Society for Education. The report titled, Annual Status of Education, has pointed out that Tripura has the highest rate of private tuition in the country.

According to the report, altogether 77.3 per cent of students from Classes IV to VIII take private tuition from school teachers and in urban and semi-urban areas, the rate goes up to almost 98 per cent. The circular was issued because of the court order passed in 2003, which put a ban on private tuition by teachers in government-run and government-aided schools, a highly placed source in the school education department said.

As usual CM always prefer to deliver lectures on morality like in this case of teachers, but he turns blid eye when fixing morality of his corrupt aides and officials like BDO Bimal Chakraborty.