State schools lose charm in Karimnagar

Private educational institutions are getting a major share of fresh enrolments in the district

June 17, 2014 01:28 am | Updated 01:31 am IST - KARIMNAGAR:

Improved economic status in rural areas and adoption of small family norms should be welcomed by everyone. But, it is to the contrary in the government educational institutions in Karimnagar district.

With improved economic status, parents who are following one or two child norms, are sending their children to private educational institutions for better education, particularly in the English medium. With increased earnings, people are having second thoughts about sending their wards to the government schools. If one goes by the official statistics of enrolment of children into schools, the number is swelling in private educational institutions when compared to government educational institutions. During the year 2008-09, the students’ strength was 3,33,928 in the government sector and 3,01,722 in private schools. In 2013-14, students studying in government schools had come down to 2,42,348 while it was 2,72,747 students in private schools.

The adoption of small family norms is also one reasons for lower growth rate of population in the district as the number of schoolgoing children is coming down considerably. Incidentally, admissions into social welfare residential schools has also come down drastically in the district during this year.

In the meantime, the non-availability of children in rural areas has forced the educational authorities to close almost 360 primary schools in the district during the last three years. Freshly, the same problem of closure is haunting the government high schools as already more than 100 high schools were having strength of less than 50 students. Already, the teacher and student ratio in government schools had reached 1:16 against the stipulated norms of 1:30. District Educational Officer K Lingaiah said that they were taking all measures to improve standards and instil confidence in parents to send their wards to government schools.

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