Palghar: Tribal children march to zilla parishad office over lack of teachers in schools

To call attention to the urgent need for teachers at zilla parishad schools, hundreds of tribal children marched to the zilla parishad headquarters in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Monday.

The tribal rights body that organised the march claimed that there were more than 400 schools in the district, where there were either no teachers or just one educator.

Of 7,250 total sanctioned posts of teachers, 2,132 remain vacant, it said. Twenty-eight schools did not have any teachers, while 335 schools were functioning with a single teacher, the organisation claimed.