Many schools under Kashinagar block in Gajapati district lack bare minimum facilities and shortage of teaching staffs.
While in Siali panchayat, several schools are running with an inadequate number of teaching staffs, in Kaithapadar primary school there are seven teachers for 101 students and only two classrooms. Due to lack of classrooms, students are reading in verandah.
In Papeyapeta primary school, where 95 students are reading from Standards-I to V, only four teachers are appointed and the pupils are being taught in only one classroom. Similarly in Karansibhadra primary school, for 72 students four teachers have been appointed.