As shocking as it may sound, one such person is a teacher in a government primary school situated in Bichole in Gotegali gram panchayat limits in Karwar taluk. Manjunath Kelasi is the headmaster of the government school in Bichole which is approximately 35 kms away from Karwar.
This teacher is the reason that children in the school are deprived of education. Since the village is far from the district quarters, none of the officials in the education department pay a visit to the school, thereby allowing the drunken teacher to continue his illegal habit unabatedly without any interruption.
Having served in the school from the past 15 years, this headmaster comes to class in a drunken stupor and takes classes in the same manner without constraints. It makes no difference to him whether or not students in the class gain any knowledge through his lessons.
If the drinking habit wasn't enough, the man passes the time during the day by chewing tobacco in the campus without any guilt. Teaching in a drunken stupor all the while chewing tobacco in his inner wear is the daily routine for Manjunath in the school.
The village of Bichole is largely inhabited by Kunabi folk who send their children to school to be educated. However, with such a teacher hovering over young and innocent kids at school, it is almost definite that they would fall into all the wrong habits.
The school has two teachers to look after students from Class 1 to 4, and with the next school being 15 kms away, poor families have no other option than to send their wards to this school. The way between the village and the other school in largely forested area which is why parents are hesitant to send their children to a different school. It does not help that there is no proper bus facility from the village either.
However, the children studying in this primary school are being deprived of a proper education. Besides, the drunken state of the headmaster Manjunath is proving a nightmare for the parents of these children.
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