Pernem students to stage rasta roko

MANDREM: Students of government higher secondary school, Pernem, will stage a 'rasta roko' on Monday to protest against failure of authorities to appoint a teacher to teach the auto mobile engineering technology (AET) subject.
With preliminary exams of higher secondary schools fast approaching on January 14, the students are facing a tough task as far as portion of auto mobile engineering technology subject is concerned, as a teacher for the said subject has not yet been appointed despite several pleas with the concerned authorities and local politicians.
It may be noted that students of vocational stream of auto mobile engineering technology subject boycotted classes on Thursday in protest.
Speaking to TOI, students said that the local politicians, Pernem MLA Dayanand Sopte, Mandrem MLA Laxmikant Parsekar and sports minister Manohar Azgaonkar, had promised students to appoint a full time teacher before Christmas vacations. However, even after the vacations the politicians have failed to fulfill their demand, students alleged.
According to sources, two teachers Sharad Desai and Dhananjay Gadekar were appointed on lecture basis. However, they had to leave as govt recommended a full time teacher to teach auto servicing and auto mobile engineering respectively. When TOI tried to contact principal Shilpa Bale, she was not available for comments.