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| Till when shall J&K's children be deprived of Right to Education? | | | Abodh Sharma | 5/19/2012 11:55:21 AM |
| Jammu, May 18: While Right to Education has become a fundamental right for every child aged between 6-14 years in our country following the historic legislation, the state of Jammu and Kashmir shall have to wait at least till the next session of its State Legislature to legitimately extend this Right to its children-This despite the fact that the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who has been reiterating education as his priority area is himself heading the department of school education after the Minister incharge Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed was divested of his portfolio.
Nearly 92 lakh children, who have either dropped out from schools or have never been to any educational institution, will get elementary education as it will be binding on part of the local and state governments barring J&K to ensure that all children in the 6 to 14 years age group get schooling.
Enactment of the law by the state government in the last session would have paved way for guaranteed schooling for all children in the specified age group. The figures suggest that Jammu and Kashmir fares far below the national average in providing elementary education to the children. While in entire country, over 93 in every hundred children go to school upto middle level, this number in J&K is only 74.
Understanding and learning achievement of the students of Jammu and Kashmir is much less than their counter parts in other states of the country. In a survey conducted by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), it has been reported that while the learning achievement of the primary level students in rest of the country in mathematics and languages is 46.51% and 58.57% respectively, it is a dismal 36.3% and 49.59% respectively in our state.
The survey suggests that the quality of education imparted in J&K at the primary level, which lays the foundation of the rest of the educational career of a student, is far from satisfactory. The situation can largely be attributed to the fact that only 75% of the primary teachers in J&K have been trained as against the national average of 89%.
However, the survey has also come up with some encouraging findings with regards to the educational scenario in J&K. While Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Total Literacy Mission (TLM) have been successful in raising the literacy rate of the state from 55.52% in 2001 to 65.3% at present, it is till below several adjoining states. The gender gap in literacy is another major concern in J&K. Against 100 literate men, only 73 women can read and write.
However, there are some encouraging statistics as well. Dropout rate in J&K is 53.75% against the national average of 61.92% upto class X, Pupil Teacher ratio is 1:34 as against national average of 1:46, there are 153 elementary schools for a population of 1 lakh in J&K as against the national average of 97, a University in J&K caters to a population of 11.80 lakh, against the national average of 27.40 lakh, but a college in J&K caters to 2.12 lakh of population against the national average of 1.04 lakh. |
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