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| In Babu Raj, drop-out rate in Govt schools witnesses severe spike | | More than 50K students quit studies in one year; education scenario worsens amid official neglect | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 17: A startling revelation has come to the fore, depicting the shabby picture of the education sector in Jammu and Kashmir. As per the latest reports, the school drop-out rate has witnessed a sharp spike in Jammu as well as in Kashmir division, hence putting a question mark on government schemes and measures.
Reports inform that at present, the school drop out rate has gone up to more than 50 thousand, leaving the experts wondering over such a serious spike in the school drop-out rate. “The prevalent scenario could be because of the COVID and the economic crises which is engulfing the society at large. Or else various factors are responsible for such a trend like lack of gadgets among the poor children who are asked to attend the classes through online mode, lack of infrastructure cannot be simply ignored,” says an official privy to the latest survey.
There are also various experts in the field of education who hold lack of infrastructure in government run schools responsible for such a mess on the ground.
They rue the pathetic functioning of the allied departments for failing to provide even the basic drinking water and electricity in the schools in Jammu and Kashmir. “And we are expecting our children to get interested in going to the schools. The drop out rate has emerged mainly from the government run schools and not from the private ones. There are factors like lack of infrastructure diffidently responsible for the current mess we are finding our educational system engulfed in,” a senior official said.
As per the government records, out of 8966 schools and 559 Anganwadi centers, 1480 schools (17 per cent) and 203 Anganwadi centers (36 per cent) were not provided any drinking water facility by the PHE Department or any other Department.
It implies that the Department had not been serious in mitigating the water scarcity problem to the school-going children despite the programme being in operation for the last over 10 years. The funds for providing water supply to schools were stopped by GoI since 2016-17. Such an action by the government of India is reportedly due to the non- performance of the executing agency on ground.
Meanwhile, the dearth of basic facilities at government schools in Jammu and Kashmir is not new. In the study, ASSOCHAM has listed 10 states with poor electricity supply in schools. Jammu and Kashmir ranks fourth.
The states topping the list include Bihar, with just 8.1% of schools having electricity, and Jharkhand (12.0 %) and Assam (15.9%). There are as many as 6000 schools in the state without electricity. The survey has also revealed that 75 percent of schools have no computer labs. Jammu and Kashmir has 232 such schools wherein toilet facility for children isn’t available and out of these 232 schools, 228 are located in Jammu region. |
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