Over 3000 J&Okay govt faculties have below 10 college students: Minister | India Information
SRINAGAR: Over 3,000 govt faculties in J&Okay have had zero or lower than 10 college students since 2022, schooling minister Sakina Itoo advised the meeting on Saturday.Of the three,192 such faculties,1494 are in Jammu division and 1,698 in Kashmir, Nationwide Convention’s (NC) Itoo mentioned in a written reply to a query from BJP legislator RS Pathania.In Jammu, Kathua district has the very best variety of such faculties at 508. In Kashmir, Baramulla district tops the listing of such faculties with 396. Srinagar has the bottom quantity within the Valley with 90 such faculties, whereas Poonch has the bottom in Jammu division with 17.The NC govt additionally disclosed main infrastructure gaps — 2,698 faculties should not have boys’ bogs, 57 lack women’ bogs, 9,078 faculties haven’t any boundary partitions, and 10,896 faculties lack playgrounds.Pathania referred to as the numbers a “huge expose”, arguing the info mirrored an absence of public confidence in govt faculties. “If individuals are not enrolling their kids in these faculties, why are they being opened,” he mentioned, alleging the faculties are being run primarily to accommodate educating employees.Naeem Akhtar, former J&Okay schooling minister of PDP, referred to as it a “critical scenario” and accused the NC govt of decreasing schooling as an employment scheme for some academics whereas neglecting the prime obligation of training college students. “Govt’s major duty is human growth. This knowledge presents a dismal image. It isn’t that there are not any college students. They’re compelled to maneuver to personal faculties due to lack of amenities in govt faculties and poor pedagogy,” Akhtar mentioned.Non-public Faculties Affiliation of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) president Baba Nazrul Islam agreed that the info displays rising desire for personal faculties attributable to higher infrastructure, accountability and quicker decision-making. He cautioned, nevertheless, that the government shouldn’t view non-public faculties as rivals however as “information companions”. “If the government agrees to collaborate with non-public faculties, the problem will be addressed,” Islam mentioned.
