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Khushwant S Ranial
No society can excel in the absence of education. Since time immemorial, the society growth and development on the positive note to greater heights has been taking place due to the education dissemination. At periodic intervals of time, different education committees were set up to formulate new policies and envisaged new programmes for the upliftment of standards of education but the allocation of funds meant and kept for the education status fall definitely short of its domain and the existing needs. The result is that too, boost the education paradigm, privatization of education come forth under the auspicious patronage of state and central government agencies. But all this has happened at the neglect of state owned enterprise. The private institution holders gained rich dividends of lax approach of state government’s apathy and non-seriousness towards their own directly governed educational sector. The privatization has thus led to opening of a pandora’s box for having no control in minting money by fleecing the poor hapless seeker of education. A corrupt nexus grew between state authorities and big business lords leading to the ushering of private institutions at an unchecked alarming rate overlooking the floating norms, procedures, necessities, qualitative spirit behind the existence education. With the result, a total chaos has grown all around. Public hue and cry can be felt and seen all around, be it in a village, town, or a city. Every needy parent is drenched to skin with the over burdened fee structure adding an agony to their miseries of life. The worst sufferer class of society is the one who unwillingly fails to meet the demands of heavy fee structure of the private schools and have to lastly bank upon the government institution for seeking education and the condition of these government run institution is just awesome irrespect of area, region or zone.
Majority of these schools are lacking basic infrastructure like school buildings, playground, libraries, laboratories, urinals, black boards, modern educational gadgets, etc. There are countless schools where children have to sit either on matting or on the grassy grounds. Benches, stools are still a distant dream. As far as staffing is concerned, the system is entirely unbalanced and lopsided. In rural areas as well as the outer skirts of cities, towns, teaching staff according to curriculum and syllabi are not adequate. In majority institutions, they don’t have teachers for the particular subjects. On the other hand, in cities, these institutions are flooded with surplus staff. The sole reason behind such a mess is the poor governance as well as partisan approach adoption due to political and bureaucratic interference in transparent transfer policy matters. Under such prevailing circumstances, where a resource less teacher has to put in more than 10 to 12 years at a stretch in a ruralite area at the expense of his / her resourceful counterpart for equal number of years nearer the house and that too within his own vicinity, in city how one can hope to have a better results?
The teacher amidst such glaring imbalances can never afford his/ her best potential. The true exhibition of talent will remain silent and never come to surface. Pains of a tutor towards pupils will not be a soul searching one. To add to the existing woes is an addition of promotion prospects which have been sapped by the reservation policy.
No doubt, too bring back to rails, the educational system, mid-day meals scheme has been incorporated. But what is shocking to note and learn that no separate staffing has been provided for this very cause. The teacher along with the students are mostly found engrossed in the preparation of meals and maintainence of the mid-day meal records, thus leading to the sheer wastage of time. The professional teacher gets exhaustion to such an extent that he/she barely takes pain to lend their valuable contribution and the involved students get no more charm to study in the class.
Now a-days, the existing policy of the educational authorities of pulling on the weaker students to the next class until one faces the board examination of class 8th class has equally lowered the qualitative standard of education beyond reparable means. Majority of teacher in a bid to escape the wrath of senior supervisors indulge in unfair means by providing every sort of logistic support to students during examination and thus every Tom, Dick and Harry gets weighed in the same pan. The quantity of literacy is accentuating at the cost of quality. Our state education minister Mr. Peerzada rightly shown his resentment over regular decline of the education after pursuing the outcome of school board results. To some extent his concern seems justified. But if viewed in totality, his action plans for not generating good outcome in the near future which is woven around punishment like demotion, dismissal or stoppage of increments of those teachers who fails to extract good results, does not gain adequate support.
It is all because the education structure needs an overall revamping right from the grass root level.
There should be adoption of concrete policy in regard to the payment of wages in time, increment, salaries, promotions, transfers, placements of the teachers. Further, the required infrastructure for making education lively and attractive be made available to students. The policy of scholarship affording to only those hailing from reserved categories must be shun away with, by replacing to the economically under privileged ones. First raise the infrastructure and then think to raze the tutors. Locate discrepancies within your own ambit, replace outworn structural methodologies and augment skillful entrepreneurial ways to motivate the educator and educed. There is an old adage that ‘A horse can be taken to a pond but cannot be made to drink the water’. So unless, a proper educational milieu doesn’t flourish, one cannot hope to have miracles. Enrich the educational budgetary plan for its upwards growth and development. Otherwise the very purpose of emergence of an egalitarian society among the heterogeneity shall itself prove a distant dream. In gist, education can bring a sea change in the life style of man kind provided healthy provisions to cherish and relish are made abundantly without partisan and prejudices, for all irrespect of caste, class, age, sex and culture.
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