But when i visited village "Supi" during my fieldwork, i came to know a different type of problem in education structure. In the classrooms, each time a lecture ends, front row students are left in the cloud of dust resulting from cleaning the board. Here classrooms being small in size, the students sit very close to the blackboard and get badly affected by dust.
I believe that it is not only the case in my Field Work village but it might be happening across all rural areas.
Don't you think that it needs a collective action to solve this issue?
If yes, please recommend your suggestions so that being IRMAN, we should solve this type of social issues across country.
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"The distribution of primary and upper primary schools according to the type of buildings in 1996 show large inter-state variations. The position with respect to the availability of blackboard was collected in 1996. 38.5 per cent of primary schools were without blackboards. The availability of school buildings and teaching-learning materials has improved considerably after the implementation of the Operation- Blackboard Scheme in 1988."
The above information has been taken from government web-site.The real figure will be much higher than that.
If approx.half of the primary schools in INDIA,have no basic infrastucture,like-classrooms,teachers,playground,blackboard,toilet etc.Then,will it feasible to invent or use automatic blackboard cleaner?
This is like hunting with bullets without having gun.
Mr. Keshav, i partially agree to your points. what you said is all about history i.e. 12-15 years back. Now the system has almost changed. Indian govt. is having "Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna" and by this every indian village will be electrified till 2010. so there is no issue of electricity.
The concern i got while interacting with villagers during my fieldwork according to them was- which is more important, education or the health of our children? If we send our children to school and get ill there regularly then what is the use of that type of study. According to them the health of their children is much more important than their education.
Don't you think that the dust issue is demotivating the students as well as their parents for going to school. you can check it by their attendance records. Even if it having educational structure, it is hardly of any use. A large majority of the students go there only for "Mid Day Meal Scheme."
So don't you think there should be an automatic blackboard cleaner so that it may motivate more and more people to send their wards to school hence resulting in better standard of living?
I donot know how the blackboard-cleaning is related to "Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran Yojana"?
If automatic cleaner needs electricity,then it will be more proolematic to implement throughout India.
My data related to blackboards includes all schools(private and govt.)in rural and urban India.I can substantiate my conclusion with different surveys and datas prepared by govt. and non-govt. agencies that still in rural area more than half of the schools have negligible basic infrastructure.
As far as Mid-day meal scheme is concerned I have worked on this in 23 blocks.I know what type of food-grain comes for the food and how officials and department of education works on this?My NGO has also done survey regarding basic infrastructural facilities in government primary schools in seven districts.MOre than 40% of the schools showing different infrastructural facilities on the goverment-paper is false.Few government schools are even running on the paper only.
I am not sayiing that Blackboard cleaner would not improve the situation.But,it can be used only if there will be a blackboard.
If you will allow me,then I will present the datas of Planning Commission,Department of HRD(Govt. of India) and different state governments.
You are lucky that you found Blackboard in the village during field-work.
And,also please keep onething in mind that we were sent to those villages,where we can reach by easy transportation mode.But,there are thousands of villages in India,where even district administration and police cannot access in any extraordinary situations.Schools,blackboards and other infrastuctural facilities are remote things for those villages.
I appreciate your imagination for planning to adopt one BPL family by one tax-payer and Blackboard cleaner...but,these poetic imagination has extreme limitations.....
There are other basic needs of the infrastructure which should be addressed before thinking of automatic blackboard. May be there could be alternates like running the school in shifts if the class strength is large in number. People of village can be encouraged to get together and ask the Panchayat to talk at higher level to run the school in shifts in their village. As mentioned before, electricity and maintenance problem of automatic blackboard will be an issue in villages where electricity is not there.
we may need automatic blackboards in schools in rural areas but before that dont you think that their are more critical and important issues like teacher students ratio,poor quality of education and reducing high dropout rates to be addressed.....
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