Problems and Challenges faced by the School Teachers in the Rural Areas of Jammu and Kashmir: A Critical Study

Abstract

The quality of education is directly proportional to the quality of teachers especially in rural areas because two thirds population of the country resides in rural areas. In Jammu and Kashmir alone nearly 72.62 per cent population resides in rural areas. So, it is very important to analyze the rural educational system because education is only a way to bring positive changes in society and teacher plays a vital role in achieving the concern goal. Therefore, in the present paper, the investigators have focused on the existing status of school teachers in rural areas and tried to analyze the existing problems and challenges faced by them. Secondary sources of data were used by employing the percentages and depicted through a line graph. It had been found that school teachers in rural areas were facing the problems of ICT training, inclusive education training, improper deployment of female  and highly qualified teachers, and involvement of teachers in non-teaching/training activities. More than 88 per cent of teachers did not know the use of computers, more than 99 per cent cannot deal in inclusive classrooms, and 13.49 per cent were involved in non-teaching activities like election duties, back to villages programme duties, census work, and other administrative work within the education department.