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Elementary education plays a significant role in human resource development by accelerating the pace of social change process.It is the foundation of life of a child. It helps a child to become a civic citizen of the society.The teacher of elementary schools has more responsibilities and challenges to educate the children. Because elementary education is the beginning of formal system of education and the quality of whole education system is depended upon the raw materials of pupils into specialized and resourceful human beings. But sometime it is seen that the teachers of elementary school face various problems, which are related with school life and real life situation also and directly hampers on education system. This paper tries to highlight the existing condition of elementary school teachers of tea garden elementary school of Dibrugarh district. Necessary information regarding problems of teachers was collected through questionnaires of 70 teachers teaching in 37 different tea garden elementary schools. The results indicated that tea garden elementary school teachers of Dibrugarh district faced enormous problems in relation to various aspects of education which hamper their competency and development in the teaching-learning activities. These include poor classrooms, insufficient teaching aids, lack of proper sanitation, non-availability of teacher's quarter, shortage of time to carry out academic assignments, lack of proper in-service training facility, frequent transfer of teachers, lack of community involvement, insufficient and delayed payment of teacher's salary, etc. The study also suggested various important measures to solve the existing problems of elementary school teachers.