JAIPUR: Be it the declining number of students, or short staffed faculty for elementary education, the condition of government schools in the capital is no better than other districts in the state.
In Jaipur district alone, lack of students have forced eight government schools to shut down. In another instance, students from over a dozen schools were shifted to another school owing to shortage of teachers.
With the growing number of private schools in the city, the district education department is struggling to retain its students. According to an estimate, this year the number of private schools have increased by 50% over the previous year.
B S Rawat, district education officer, Jaipur said, "The rationalisation of student-teacher ratio will solve all the problems."
The department's initiatives to provide education to the less privileged has not yielded desired results. "The government has allocated huge funds for schemes such as midday meals, free school uniforms, bicycles distribution, but they have failed to attract children," an expert remarked.
Some experts felt the government should have focused on improving the infrastructure instead of doling out numerous schemes. Meanwhile, teachers complained that they were engaged in "other" duties most of the time during the session.
"The government deputes us on various projects from election duties to participating in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan events. We hardly get time to teach students," said Rajesh Kala, a government school teacher.
On the number of schools closed during the current academic session, district education officer Kumkum Joshi replied, "I have forgotten the number of schools closed in this session."
The elementary education officer rued their department has been directed to work on various projects other than just improving the condition of schools.
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