Education In Punjab – A Dream
By Pardeep
13 July,
2008
Countercurrents.org
All the schools I visited in Punjab, I saw many slogans written on the walls of schools that” Vidya bechari ta par-upkari” means “Education is for welfare/improvement”, “Vidya – 3rd ankh” means “Education - 3rd eye” etc. But the condition of education in Punjab is like drowning Titanic ship. Education has become business & not for opening 3rd eye or for welfare.
Two lakh thirty three thousand students of eightth class failed in 2007 and the much more tragedy of education system was that many (about 2lakh) of those failed students didn’t take admission again and dropped studies. Same results came this year also. What about the future of all these, what prosper lives all of these students will lead, nobody cares. The results of this year would have been different if all had given little bit intension to this issue.
Another stunning report showed that about 280 students were denied admission to medical colleges in Punjab just because they weren’t able to give the fees which are touching all times high!! What a shame on all Punjabis (one of the richest people of India!!) & Indians that such things are happening when people claiming India Shinning!!
A year back there was a report that not more than 4% student go upto university level, this all is the condition of the state which has been selected No. 1 state by India Today consecutive 3 times!! Punjab Govt. can give Rs. 13000 crores for free electricity to the landlord farmers but on the name on education, Govt. is bankrupt!!
Inappropriate schemes
Decreasing rate of children in Govt. schools is just because inappropriate education schemes, not proper facilities & increasing number of private schools (shops to earn money!!). Thou Govt. teachers are highly educated but teachers are engaged in many other works, like mid day meal, Sarav Shiksha Abhiyan, polls, surveys, etc. They don’t get enough time for teaching even thou they wants to teach.
Teachers are not available from last 15-20 years in many schools of Punjab; schools are running without teacher, without buildings under the shadow of trees, then how something good one can expect? Govt. thinks education is not a profitable business, so no Govt. is ready to recruit teachers or recruited for Rs. 5000, how well teachers will teach in such cases? There is shortage of about 25,000 teachers & 1200 principals in the Govt. schools where only & only lower caste poor students study.
Schools where teachers are not available, students of those areas are now pushed 100 years backward, that why Punjabis are becoming superstitious, living with confusion that Punjab is the best state!! If such conditions continued to prevail for few more years the monopoly of Punjab being one of the best state in all respects will finished & future will be on roads.
Poor students don’t get much encouragement, it’s also not like that only Govt. or teachers are responsible for low education in Punjab; parents & students are also equally responsible. Student just remains 7-8 hour in school rest of time parents have to take care for their best education.
New methods
of teaching those attracts student towards studying should be implemented
& “khel khel me padyai” (studying while playing) methods
should be introduced. Govt., teachers, students & parents all
have to cooperate so as ship of education don’t sink in Punjab.
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