Dozen schools closed in Dolpa as teachers lured to Yarsha trade

DOLPA (Tripura), Aug. 20: Dozens of schools in Dolpa district have been shutdown since two months in the absence of as many as 90 teachers who were recorded to have left for Tibet, China to deal in the herbal medicine, Yarsha Gumba.

With the onset of Yarsha picking season in May, schools in Dolpa remain closed in absence of teachers and students, who flock to mountainous highlands in the district to pick up yarsha in staggering numbers.


A team of school inspectors, resource persons has already been deployed in the upper and lower Dolpa to look into the matter, shared the District Education Officer in Dolpa, Santamani Acharya, adding that those serving teachers found involved in yarsha trade will be brought into book.

The information was made available by the police beat in Dolpa, added Acharya. Moreover, the District Administration Office, Dolpa was also supporting the District Education Office to take stock of such teachers. RSS

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