Champua: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), an initiative launched by the Centre intending to educate all the children of the country, has failed to serve its purpose in several government schools in the remote areas of Keonjhar district.
Primary School, located at Satahalia village of Jamudalaka panchayat under Champua block in Keonjhar district, was established in 1954. It has three teachers to teach 89 students from Class I to Class V.
However, the school doesn’t have proper classrooms. Whatever it has are in dilapidated condition. Students were seen studying on school verandahs as there are three classrooms for more than 89 students, said parents. The parents have shown their dissatisfaction over this issue.
Even as the government is pumping in crores for supply of nutritious foods to minor children, lack of basic infrastructure like a kitchen buildings, electricity and water has deprived the children of their rights. Anganwadis play a vital role in giving pre-school education and supplementary nutrition to kids and pregnant women.
Students brave heat and dust to sit through the day in this school that operates under the shade of a large tree and a verandah. At times, when it rains, they gather on the verandah of some villagers to spend the day.
They have appealed to the administration for nine years for help but to no avail.
Villagers demanded the administration to look into the issue and take steps in providing good, nutritious food to their children.
PNN
