Gurgaon: As many as 1,050 govt schools across Haryana are functioning with just one teacher, while 107 have fewer than 10 students enrolled, highlighting disparities in teacher deployment and student enrolment across the state.Ambala and Yamunanagar account for the highest number of single-teacher schools, with 189 and 186, respectively. Mahendragarh has 68, Sirsa 63, Bhiwani 60 and Kurukshetra 50. Fatehabad has 43, Rewari 39, Gurgaon 36, Palwal 34 and Nuh 32. Karnal has 29, Kaithal 26, Faridabad 25 and Panchkula 23, while the remaining schools are spread across other districts.The data also shows that 107 schools have fewer than 10 students. Kurukshetra has the highest number of such schools at 21, followed by Yamunanagar with 18, Bhiwani with 13 and Ambala with 11. Fatehabad and Hisar have seven each, while Mahendragarh has six and Karnal four. Sonipat, Sirsa and Panchkula have three such schools each.The figures, based on education department data, have also brought the prolonged delay in teacher transfers and rationalisation into focus, despite Haryana having more than 30,000 junior basic training (JBT) teachers.Education department officials have maintained that rationalisation is necessary to address the imbalance in teacher deployment. Under the exercise, teachers from schools with surplus staff can be shifted to institutions facing shortages to ensure a more balanced distribution of the available workforce.However, the rationalisation exercise and the general transfer drive have remained pending for years. The transfer policy for JBT teachers has not been implemented for nearly a decade, leaving several schools with inadequate staff while others have comparatively higher teacher strength.The delay has raised concerns about how single-teacher schools manage classroom teaching, particularly when one teacher has to handle multiple classes simultaneously. A transfer and rationalisation exercise could help address the disparities in staff availability across schools.
