A Story from Badau, UP
Feb 15, 2013
This is the story of 3 villages, 3 schools but same story. It was Valentine Day, the 14th day of February. It was supposed to be a beautiful day but when I visited these villages one by one things were different.
Feb 15, 2013
This is the story of 3 villages, 3 schools but same story. It was Valentine Day, the 14th day of February. It was supposed to be a beautiful day but when I visited these villages one by one things were different.
I will share the story of one village called Gariahardopaati
in Usawa block.
There were 183 children (M 82 + F 101) as per the register.
Only 90 (M 39 + F 51) were present at the time of visit. After interacting with
the teacher on duty I came to know that this school does not have regular
school teacher for last 8 months. Currently there were two teachers called
Shiksha Mitra (Friend of Education or para teachers). Both the teachers are
local youth and are working for last one year. They have not got payment
(salary) since May 2012. I was amazed with the commitment of these teachers-
working for almost an year without any payment. I am sure they will get their
salary but the important point is that why not in time. How can they support
their family? How we expect quality teaching without payment.
Interestingly only 1 teacher was present at the time of visit
and the other one has gone for some kind of training. So literally there was 1
teacher for 90 children in primary school. It violates all the norms of Right
to Education Act 2009.
How can our system is so pathetic about the future of this
nation, which are children?
Reg
Shaheen
