The posts of 9,82,662 teachers are lying vacant in government schools across the country.
There is no access to drinking water in 18,797 government schools.
31,841 government schools do not have a separate toilet for girls.
Only 57.2 percent of government schools have computers, while 53.9 percent have access to the Internet.
Announcing the Union Budget 2018-29, the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed to treat education without partition from former-nursery to class 12 “. To achieve this, the Complex Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) was launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now the Ministry of Education) in May 2018.
It abolished three previous schemes – with the primary target to enable the implementation of Sarava Nishka Abhiyan, Rashtria Madhyamic Shikha Abhiyan and Teacher Education – Children’s Rights Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 In state schools.
“In many schools so far, the pupil-teacher ratio, number of classrooms, or water and hygiene facilities and/or availability of playgrounds are insufficient,” the report states, which was prepared by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on education, women, children, youth and sports, which was on the demand for grants given by the Department of School Education and Sahitya (Desel).
In the first story for Quintal Education state The series, we see how the underperformance of the SSA scheme is denying millions of children the right to education:
