In a shocking case of lethargy, a survey conducted by the state education department’s Nagpur division revealed that as many as 170 primary schools out of the 6,675 operated by the Zilla Parishad lack even basic drinking water facilities. In the era when Right to Education Act has made school education compulsory for every child, such miserable conditions that too in the government-owned prevents children from coming to the schools.
The survey conducted at the start of the year with the help of education officers coming under six districts of the Nagpur division has brought to the fore some startling revelations and the pathetic conditions under which the innocent kids were made to study in the region infamous for its hot and humid atmosphere.
The division covers six districts including Chandrapur, Gondia, Wardha, Bhandara, and Gadchiroli besides Nagpur. A senior official, who revealed these shocking statistics to TOI, informed that the pitiable conditions are more prevalent in the rural areas of these districts with the backward district of Gadchiroli being worst affected. Interestingly, none of the schools were found wanting in Wardha district.
The official informed that they had taken only those schools into consideration where there were no pipelines laid and the school authorities and students had to fetch the water from a distance. Gadchiroli leads the chart with as many as 83 schools followed by Gondia with 56 such schools. The next in the line was Nagpur with 17 schools lacking drinking water facilities, Chandrapur with 10 and Bhandara with four.
The official disclosed that though the state government grants lakhs of rupees for improving infrastructure of the schools in rural areas with emphasis on drinking water facilities, toilets, classrooms and blackboards, the those funds failed to reach the schools. Even food grains allotted under midday meal scheme by the government failed to reach the children and salaries of teachers were held up for months.
“It’s no surprise that dropout ratio is the highest in the schools operating in rural areas where kids don’t even get drinking water,” the official said. Deputy director of education for Nagpur division Murlidhar Pawar was not available for comments.
The survey conducted at the start of the year with the help of education officers coming under six districts of the Nagpur division has brought to the fore some startling revelations and the pathetic conditions under which the innocent kids were made to study in the region infamous for its hot and humid atmosphere.
The division covers six districts including Chandrapur, Gondia, Wardha, Bhandara, and Gadchiroli besides Nagpur. A senior official, who revealed these shocking statistics to TOI, informed that the pitiable conditions are more prevalent in the rural areas of these districts with the backward district of Gadchiroli being worst affected. Interestingly, none of the schools were found wanting in Wardha district.
The official informed that they had taken only those schools into consideration where there were no pipelines laid and the school authorities and students had to fetch the water from a distance. Gadchiroli leads the chart with as many as 83 schools followed by Gondia with 56 such schools. The next in the line was Nagpur with 17 schools lacking drinking water facilities, Chandrapur with 10 and Bhandara with four.
The official disclosed that though the state government grants lakhs of rupees for improving infrastructure of the schools in rural areas with emphasis on drinking water facilities, toilets, classrooms and blackboards, the those funds failed to reach the schools. Even food grains allotted under midday meal scheme by the government failed to reach the children and salaries of teachers were held up for months.
“It’s no surprise that dropout ratio is the highest in the schools operating in rural areas where kids don’t even get drinking water,” the official said. Deputy director of education for Nagpur division Murlidhar Pawar was not available for comments.
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