To provide schools having Urdu students but no teacher of the subject, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Godda, Jharkhand, Abubakar Siddique, recently transferred several Urdu teachers to those schools. These teachers have been transferred from the schools which have no Urdu students to the schools in which Urdu students are in large number but they were not studying the subject due to unavailability of teachers of the subject. However, this decision has not gone down well with the teachers transferred. Even though they have been appointed as Urdu teachers but are not willing to serve the purpose for which they are paid. Majority of the people, however, have appreciated the move of the DC and hoped that the students who were unable to read their mother language now can read it in a better way and it will be promoted in young generation, a considerable portion of which have not learnt the language.
General Muslims have expressed their anger on the Urdu teachers’ approach to the DC’s decision and asked them to come forward for the sake of the community and the language.