Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 10: For students enrolled in government schools across Jammu online education has remained a “mystery” as most of them were unable to access the virtual classrooms which were setup after the outbreak of COVID-19 in March this year.
It’s in place to mention here that the government had started the online virtual classes through different platforms like Whatsapp, Skype, Zoom Cloud, Skype, Google Classroom to reach out to the students after the pandemic broke out. “The schools had to form different groups of the students and teachers and accordingly frame a timetable for virtual classes.
Teachers were also asked to engage them in a play way activity, quizzes, assignments, small projects in a two-way process,” the government had said.
However, the plans which were framed remained confined to papers only as the students were not benefitted due to one or other reason.
Hundreds of government schools in Jammu have no libraries, no laboratories and there are 19273 schools wherein there is no toilet facility, drinking water, government building or compound walling is missing.
These figures reveal that the tall claims of the authorities to provide quality education were a hoax. Furthermore, Jammu region has 762 schools without the library facility.
At a time when the government claims of ensuring betterment in sports infrastructure in schools, asking children to actively take part in extra- co curricular activities, there are more than five thousand schools in Jammu region that have no play grounds. 105 schools in the region are functioning without headmasters or principals. Nearly 1257 schools in Jammu have no subject teachers.
And finally, there are 683 schools in JK which have recorded less than 30 percent of the result.
Again of out of these 683 schools, 476, which are around 70 percent, are in Jammu region.
“This issue has been raised many times but government has not paid any attention,” said a senior official in Education Department. Besides the departmental survey, a study done by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has also revealed that nearly 80 percent of the schools in the JK are without electricity connections.
Little so far has been done to put lid over such crisis and while the government was ought to take remedial measures sans any delay, it is raising concern over why the department isn’t functioning in a digital mode.
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