Our Alma maters need our inputs!

I had a chat with Jhadeswar Mishra; an assistant teacher of our alma mater- D N High School, Kendujhar, who is also the most trusted alumni in the school administration; on 13 February 2012. I reminded him that this year it would be the tenth time -on a row- we’d be sending good wish cards to the Matriculation examinees. He assured that it would be continued and also told me the following:

Sri Anil Kar- an alumni of 1986 batch- visited the School recently and sportively offered to donate some equipment. Thank you Anil bhai!

The sad part:

Now the student strength has come down to around 750 (from 1200 a couple of years back). Correspondingly in all standards- viii to x- now there are only 4 sections instead of 5.
Both the clerks have retired and none of the vacancies have been replaced.
There is only one Sanskrit teacher instead of 2 and it puts a lot of pressure on him to manage the classes- from class VI to X.
There are only 22 teachers. In most comparable ‘Saraswati Sishu Mandiras’ they have two times that many teaching staff and many have 3 times of that.
I assured that I’d escalate this matter to our concerned alumni and hence this effort.

Appeal to the alumni:
The situation is not much different in other erstwhile Zilla Schools, which are akin to family silvers. Whether it is Revenshaw collegiate school of Cuttack or Chandra Sekhar Behera Zilla School of Sambalpur or Puri Zilla Schools of Puri all are in the same boat.

Our Alma maters need our inputs! Can we do something to address their concerns?