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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Scoring low: on lack of power in schools

Scoring low: on lack of power in schools

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published Published on Mar 11, 2020   modified Modified on Mar 12, 2020

-The Hindu

The absence of playgrounds and electricity in govt. schools speaks poorly of policy priorities

It should rank as an irony that as a founder-leader of the International Solar Alliance, India has not yet electrified a significant number of government schools, while extolling the elegance and virtue of photovoltaic electricity to the rest of the world. The lack of power in schools is taken note of by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development in its latest report on budgetary grants for school education and literacy for 2020-21. Under the framework of concurrent powers, the Centre operates its own schemes and sponsors several school education programmes covering the States, notably Samagra Shiksha and the Mid Day Meal scheme. Yet, as the panel found from data for 2017-18, only 56.45% of government schools had electricity and 56.98% a playground, while almost 40% lacked a boundary wall. There are some high-performing States, but even in politically well-represented Uttar Pradesh, almost 70% of schools lacked electricity. Other depressing insights from the district information database as of end-2019, are: neglect of toilet construction for children with special needs, failure to build toilets for girls in a third of secondary schools and laboratories for higher secondary science students. The tardy progress on such important facilities, in spite of the projects having been sanctioned, shows the low priority that school education is being accorded.

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The Hindu, 11 March, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/scoring-low/article31033847.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR1r5Y7ktZmYUOVkpOLj22XVcxy7Iuq6OxFQsucd76ZJ_T0FSPelmSuIg5I


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