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The rural poor can neither migrate to the urban areas nor afford
the very high fee charged in thecorporate and private schools.
Hence any new proposals in the education sector should improve
the chances for the rural poor to have a good education on par
with their urban counter parts intheir villages themselves.
It is well known that the education system in India is not at
the satisfactory levels. Instead ofconfusing the students with some
new proposals, it is advisable to improve the existing
facilities.
The following are the various problems in government schools and
colleges in India in semiurban areas and rural areas in
particular.
In most of the government schools, science fairs, science
exhibitions, educational fairs, seminars,workshops, etc seem to
have never been conducted. Such a disparity among the authorities
will
lead to acquiring only the theoretical knowledge by the innocent
children. There are no properscience practical labs for computer
science, biology, chemistry, physics, etc in the schools run by
the government.
The much publicised mid day meal scheme meant to reduce drop out
rates in schools seems to benot yielding the desired results. This
is due to misappropriation of funds meant for the scheme,
mismanagement, lack of seriousness among the implementing
authorities, diversion of funds,lack of awareness among the parents
of poor children, etc. According to some reports, the quality
of the food served is inferior.
For many children, the hostel life is one of the highly
miserable experiences.
In this globalised era, when many rich and fortunate urban
children are becoming technologically
savvy, their rural counter parts do not know much about even the
computers!.
Poor infrastructure:
Most of the government schools do not have basic infrastructure
like strong school building,class rooms, black boards, proper
benches to sit and listen to their teacher effectively,
drinking
water, play grounds for recreation and other recreation
facilities, toilet facilities, cleanliness ofthe school
surroundings, etc. For instance, the rough black board does not
encourage even some
efficient teachers to write some thing on it. This will
encourage teachers to avoid explanationwith some important diagrams
and thus only oral teaching. Which will lead to lower knowledge
levels to the students. Hence, the serious reformers should
first improve this kind of basic but themost important facilities
immediately.
Lack of accountability:
In most of the government schools the accountability among the
teaching staff and otheradministrative staff is lacking. Friendship
among school administrative staff and the teachers is
responsible for the negligence of many aspects of education.
This is evident in the fact that forthe past several years the
private schools have been excelling in several examination results.
In
some schools, corruption too is rampant in the accounts
department due to lack of accountability
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and transparency. Many teachers and other staff too are lazy.
Thus the ultimate victims of allthese malpractices are the innocent
children who would like to excel in life. Teachers should
motivate and guide the children with the help and counselling
from the principals of schools.Adding fuel to the problem, many
schools do not conduct parent, teacher meetings regularly to
take stock of the situation!.
Unlike the urban schools and colleges, the schools in rural
areas do not encourage the children toexcel in extra curricular
activities like sports, out door activities, handicrafts, etc. The
quality of
teaching staff in the rural schools too needs to be improved
further.
