students up in arms against misconduct of the teachers

What happens when a school comprises of classes up to 7 standards having only two teachers and if they come to school in a drunkard stage? Imagine the future of the students studying in such a school who are being tortured by the teachers every day. What happens when students are asked to outside to fetch ‘gutka ‘and cigarettes from the pan shop by the teachers and in contrary they have to face severe punishment ? 
One may not believe, but exactly this was the contains of allegation of the students of the Landimal ME School under Ghosramal Panchayat of Maoist infested Naktiduel block of Sambalpur district, who came to Sambalpur on last Saturday and demanded before the district administration to replace the teachers to save the future their as they do not feel save in the hands of such teachers. 

“We have only two teachers who never teach us. One is head master and another on is junior teacher. Head master comes in a drunkard stage. He uses filthy language to scold us. The other one comes to class only to send some one to bring Safal (Gutka) and cigarette. He smokes and chews before us. We feel panic inside the school. So we have come to appealed the collector to replace such teachers from our school”, a 5^th standard student of the school Jasobant Behera said.  Other few also made similar complaint against their teachers.

Sources said, The Landamal ME School is one of the oldest schools of the region. The school has classes up the 7^th standards with about 200 boys and girls. The school has 4 teachers but last year one got transferred to other school. Another one is Sikhya Sahayak who remains on long leave.  The remaining two identified as Kishore Chandra Sahu is the head master and other one identified as Brajamohan Panda is the junior teacher. Parents and villagers tried to mend the behavior of the teachers when they came to know about their ill-treatment towards the students. But when things remain unchanged they   locked the school 14^th of this month. The school remains closed since than as no one from school department took any step to visit the village. 

“When no school authority visited the village to reopen the school which has been locked since 14^th of this month, we came to put forth our demand before the collector to save the future of our students”, a villager Tankadhar Raul said. According to him, when the villagers did not find any changes in the conduct of the teachers despite their several requests, they brought the matter before the school inspector and officials of the block.   “Finally we decided to come to Sambalpur to bring the misconduct of the teachers before the notice of the collector”, Raul said.   On the other hand, in the absent of the collector the villagers and students met the ADM (In charge) who assured them to take necessary action to solve the problem. “We met the ADM in the collector’s residence and demanded to take necessary action to remove both teachers from the school to save the students who do not feel save with them any more” another villager Mahesh Swain said.