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This refers to the report that business schools in the country are faced with an acute shortage of faculty (Business Line, March 24). The problem of shortage of teachers is being witnessed at all levels in the country. And it has been there for years.

  Talented and dedicated teachers constitute a relatively lower percentage. Strictly speaking, a lucrative salary is just one of the motivating factors that attract many to the teaching profession. What the country needs now is the right kind of people for the highly challenging job of moulding, channelling and inspiring young minds.

 Good and dedicated teachers can attract many students to the teaching profession and help fill the demand-supply gap the country experiences today.

 One can thus attribute the paucity of teachers to a large percentage of teachers of the run-of-the-mill variety in the profession for the last four or five decades.

 S. Ramakrishnasayee Ranipet

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