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| Govt pats its back for implementing NFSA, forgets Right to Education | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 23: While state Government is yelling at top of its voice, seeking credit of implementation of Food Security act in Jammu and Kashmir more than a year it was implemented in rest of the country, it is pity that Right to Education has still remained elusive for the children of the state and the state government is showing no intent to get the act implemented.
Sources divulge that while onus if implementation of the Food Security Act that guarantees food to all citizens at highly subsidized rates lied on the Centre that has to provide ration to the state government, huge inadequacies in the field of school education in the state despite central schemes has impelled the government not to initiate the process of implementation of Right to Education Act in J&K.
Right to Education has become a fundamental right for every child aged between 6-14 years in our country following the historic legislation, but the state of Jammu and Kashmir continues to be deprived of its fruits. Nearly 92 lakh children, who have either dropped out from schools or have never been to any educational institution, will get elementary education as it will be binding on part of the local and state governments barring J&K to ensure that all children in the 6 to 14 years age group get schooling.
Enactment of the law by the state government in the preceding sessions of legislature would have paved way for guaranteed schooling for all children in the specified age group. The figures suggest that Jammu and Kashmir fares far below the national average in providing alimentary education to the children. While in entire country, over 93 in every hundred children go to school upto middle level, this number in J&K is only 74.
A survey conducted by the NCERT suggests that the quality of education imparted in J&K at the primary level, which lays the foundation of the rest of the educational career of a student, is far from satisfactory. The situation can largely be attributed to the fact that only 75% of the primary teachers in J&K have been trained as against the national average of 89%.
However, there are some encouraging statistics as well. Dropout rate in J&K is 53.75% against the national average of 61.92% upto class X, Pupil Teacher ratio is 1:34 as against national average of 1:46, there are 153 elementary schools for a population of 1 lakh in J&K as against the national average of 97, a University in J&K caters to a population of 11.80 lakh, against the national average of 27.40 lakh, but the a college in J&K caters to 2.12 lakh of population against the national average of 1.04 lakh. |
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