news details |
|
|
| Govt schools lack basic facilities, reveal surveys | | | Muhammad Mukaram
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 5: Even though it is mandatory to have basic facilities in schools under the Right to Education Act, two surveys recently revealed the grim picture and degrading condition of educational infrastructure in the state.
A number of government run schools across J&K are lacking the basic amenities like electricity, drinking water, and toilet.
The annual status of Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) survey report 2014-15 shows, state of Jammu and Kashmir has a total of 29,047 schools, and however, 21,381 schools are bereft of electricity, according to UDISE survey.
The study reads that there are 39 schools without building in JK, and 38 schools without classrooms. As many as 2,667 schools have no water facility. And 6,351 schools don't have toilet facility for girls in the schools that have a total of 1, 09,692 girls enrolled from 1-8th standard and 4862 girls in 9-12th category. And 6,636 women are working in these schools as employees.
Number of schools having no bathrooms for boys is 8,098, due to which 1,62727 boys from 1-8th standard, 20,063 boys from 9-12th standard, and 17102 male teachers end up suffering.
The study also highlights that there 22,527 schools in the state without regular headmaster or principal.
The research raises questions over competence of government run school teachers and the figures revealed raises doubts over the competence of teaching staff in the state.
The survey revealed that Out of a total of 1,64,993 teachers working in the government schools in the state, 45.84 percent of teachers have no professional qualification of teaching and 23.22 percent of teachers have studied only upto higher secondary level. While, 30 percent of the teachers have studied English only upto school level.
Pertinently, the UDISE database is maintained by National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
Another research conducted by the annual status of Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014, a not-for profit organization, Pratham Netwok shows that only 62.58 percent schools in the state functioned without preparing School Development Plans (SDP) in the academic year 2013-14. Meanwhile, 7.5 percent of schools had SDPs but could not produce it. Only 29.7 percent of schools could show the plans.
Not for profit organization Pratham, that works across urban and rural India to help children acquire basic skills in reading and arithmetic, was engaged by Department of School Education in J&K to impart training to government teachers to what the department said, 'to raise education standards and abilities in students in Government run schools'.
As per the data conducted by Pratham shows, 10.7 percent of students up to 8th standard are able to 'recognize numbers from 1-9, while as 34.7 percent of students are able to recognize the digits from 1-99' in state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The report reads, "Only 37.1 percent of students of 4th to 5th standard are able to solve questions related to subtraction while as only 13.7 percent of 5th class students can do division." Stunningly, the report by the organisation says that students not only were unable to recognize the numbers, but it also reveals that 30.4 percent of students upto middle class can subtract but cannot do division and only 19 percent can solve the division of numbers.
The report also mentions that the percentage of students who can read the capital letters in English from 1-8th standard is only 6.6 percent, while the percentage of students who are able to read the small letters in English has been put as 12.2 percent.
Only 29.7 percent of students in 8th standard are able to read simple words in their books, while as 45.9 students are in a position to read the 'easy' sentences.
Report also claims that only 15.9 percent of students from 1st to 8th standard are capable of recognising letters in their books. "23 percent of students in 1st standard are able to read the text from their books," the report says. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
