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| 30% schools lack electricity, reveals MHRD survey | | JK schools celebrate Teachers' Day in darkness | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 4: J&K has little reason to celebrate the Teachers' Day given the worsening scenario of education in the state.
The Teachers' Day is celebrated on the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, an eminent Indian teacher, philosopher and statesman who served as the first Vice President of India (1952-1962) and the second President of India (1962 to 1967).
However, J&K would be perhaps among the very few states wherein even in 21st century most of the schools lack electricity. This also goes contrary to the claims of the present day dispensation about making the world around us 'digital'.
Surveys conducted by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) have revealed that there were 30 percent of the secondary schools in J&K that had no power connections.
While reflecting how meagre efforts were made by the successive regimes in the state to make electricity facility available in the schools of J&K, the MHRD report has termed the scenario grim and worrisome. The survey has revealed how the students hailing from poor families, admitted in the government run schools, face the brunt in the absence of electricity with no fans during summers and no heaters during the bone chilling winters.
The report further says that there are 21 percent of the higher secondary schools in the state that have no electricity. Though successive governments in the state have made tall claims, the ground situation continues to paint a shabby picture of the overall scenario of education.
While compiling the data of both the government schools (primary, Middle, secondary and higher secondary), the report says that in aggregate, there are still around 30 percent of the schools in J&K that are reeling under the darkness.
The government makes passionate appeals to the people to send their children to government schools as the quality of education there is better than private ones, but the figures coming out will for sure expose the government claims.
Furthermore, the government here continues to blame the teachers for the poor results, contemplating little about the facilities that it has been providing to the kids. "Every parent want his/ her children to compete in this competent world. When we are living in the digital era, how could a child from the government school be better than those studying in the private schools," says an official of the education department over the survey conducted by the MHRD.
According to him, there were numerous instances when the government was informed about the dearth of facilities in the government schools. "Every time the regimes here adopt blind eye towards the needs of these schools, making it difficult for the kids to attain quality education," he added. |
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