Madhya Pradesh Education Crisis – We often hear Education is the key to development but in 21 century few Indian government primary education system seems to be having few takers in Madhya Pradesh. In as many as 5,501 schools, zero enrolment of students has been reported in Class I standard.
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Statistics released on September 13 2024 which presents the gloomy picture of students enrolment in Class I in government schools, 5501 schools (which were 7% of the total 78,542 schools having primary sections) reported zero student enrolment for the 2024-25 academic session
The Narsinghpur district in MP which is the home district of state’s school education minister Rao Udai Pratap Singh’s it is the amongst the top five district of zero enrolment of students in class I in new academic year 2024-25.
Breakup
Here is the breakup of such school in Madhya Pradesh
- Seoni district which is tribal dominated in Jabalpur region had highest 425 such schools,
- Satna district of Vindhya region had 303 such schools followed by the school education minister’s home district Narsinghpur with 299 such schools,
- western MP’s Khargone district with 287 such schools and another tribal dominated Betul district with 265 such schools.
The overall student’s enrolment in each of total 19,531 schools in the state reported enrolment of 1-2 students in Class I, while each of total 25,032 schools (32%) reported enrolment of 0-2 students in the same entry level class.
Further, 23,466 or 30% schools (each of them) reported enrolment of 3-5 students in Class I, followed by 18,699 of 23% schools, each of which reported enrolment of 6 to ten students in Class I.
Total 11,345 or just 14% schools across the state (each one of them) reported enrolment of more than 10 students in Class I. Expressing shock over the government statistics, the opposition Congress’s state spokesperson Bhupendra Gupta said,
“These latest figures expose how the education system in the state has been ruined during the nearly two decades of BJP rule in the state. Still this state government claims that the state is functioning smoothly.”
There is an inspiring story of teachers in MP where both husband and wife went door to door for students enrolment in schools. And when their transfer order came the villagers went to court against this transfer order. This is the story of Bhur Singh Mujalda in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.
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