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EDUCATION CHOICE CAMPAIGN
Fund Students Not Schools |
Some more startling facts
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“The latest World Bank report, Resuming Punjab's Prosperity, reveals that on any given day 36 per cent of the government primary teachers are absent. This is well above the 25 per cent for the rest of India. In absenteeism, Punjab ranks third after Bihar and Jharkhand. Even when the teachers are present, only half (49.8 per cent) were found teaching. This is below the national average of 59.5 per cent.”
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Private Lessons,
Outlook, April 25, 2005
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“As many as 3,555 posts of teachers, including 292 principals and 342 vice principals, were vacant in Delhi government-run schools in the capital, the Delhi High Court was informed on Tuesday.”
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Hindustan Times, Press Trust of India,
New Delhi, April 12, 2005
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“A subcommittee of the Central Advisory Board of Education, in its Free & Compulsory Education For All draft bill, has proposed that the government pay the private unaided schools at a rate equal to the per-child expenditure in government schools…the expense per child Rs 1,600 for primary and Rs 2,000 for middle school. The private schools are said to spend anywhere between Rs 960 and Rs 1,100.”
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Economic Times, New Delhi,
April 18, 2005
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“One survey found that 80 per cent of those who passed Class V from Municipal Corporation of Delhi schools in Delhi could not read or write their names, drop-out ratios are as high as 40 per cent in primary schools and go up to around 70 per cent by secondary school.”
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Business Standard,
April 20, 2005 |
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