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A full of 188 schools successful the State, including 160 little primary, 29 higher primary, and 3 precocious schools, person zero enrolment this year.
This was revealed by School Education and Literacy Minister Madhu Bangarappa portion responding to a question by subordinate K.S. Naveen successful the Legislative Council.
Notably, Tumakuru acquisition territory has the highest fig of zero enrolment schools, with 45. Zero enrolment has been recorded successful 21 schools successful Kalaburagi district, 20 successful Kolar, 18 successful Koppal, 17 successful Bidar, and 12 successful Chitradurga.
Lower superior schools are the astir among the zero enrollment schools. One precocious schoolhouse each successful Bengaluru South, Hassan, and Koppal districts person zero enrolment.
Single-teacher schools
The authorities besides revealed that determination is lone 1 teacher successful 6,675 schools.
Hassan has the highest fig of specified schools with 586, followed by Tumakuru (426), Kolar (347), Mandya (338), Chickballapur (334), Bengaluru South (298), and Mysuru (294).
Niranjanaradhya.V.P., improvement educationist, said this indicates the “pathetic conditions of authorities schools successful the State”.
“The declining enrolment and increasing fig of zero enrolment schools is not due to the fact that parents are not funny successful nationalist schools. Rather, it could beryllium attributed to the dereliction and abdication of the work by the Department of Education to instrumentality the cardinal close to acquisition by providing minimum infrastructure facilities arsenic per the norms and standards provided nether the RTE Act. The RTE compliance successful the State is 23.6 %, overmuch beneath the nationalist average. A full of 62,650 teacher posts arsenic against the sanctioned posts of 2,37,115 are vacant successful simple and precocious schools With these alarming conditions, however tin we expect mediocre parents to nonstop their children to nationalist schools?,” helium asked.
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