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Parliamentary Panel Finds over 40% Govt Schools Across India Don’t Have Electricity and Playgrounds

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It is not just about electricity, playground and boundary walls, but the government schools lack infrastructure—classrooms, library, labs, etc.

Identifying the shortfalls in budgetary funding and utilisation, a parliamentary panel on education has found that close to half of government schools across the country don’t have access to electricity or proper playgrounds.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (HRD), in its report—Demands for Grants 2020-21 Analysis—which was submitted to Rajya Sabha last week, said that budgetary allocations saw a 27% cut from proposals made by the School Education department. Though the proposal for Rs 82,570 crore had been made, only Rs 59,845 crore were allocated.

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