There are a total of 555 high schools and higher secondary schools in Chhattisgarh which do not have drinking water facility, School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap informed the State Assembly on Thursday.
Replying to a question by Congress member Bhupesh Baghel during the Question Hour, the Minister said that there were a total 597 Government schools which did not have toilets in the State.
Kashyap said that the State had 34,281 Government primary schools, 14,410 middle schools, 1,847 high schools, and 2,267 higher secondary schools.
All primary and middle schools have drinking water and toilet facilities. However there are 12,216 primary schools which do not have electricity and 16,047 schools do not have boundaries, the Minister said.
Similarly, 3052 middle schools are without electricity and 334 are having no drinking water facilities while 408 schools have do not have toilets, he said. There are 611 high schools which do not have electricity and 1356 high schools do not have boundaries, he added.
The minister also said that 10,023 schools don’t have headmaster and they are being run by In-charge head masters.
In response to a supplementary question raised by Congress member Umesh Patel, the Minister said that five primary and one middle school run by the Tribal Welfare Department in Kharsia have only one teacher each and three high schools do not have teacher.
These schools are being operated through local arrangements he said, adding, in the schools run by Tribal Welfare department, 95 posts of Mathematics teachers are laying vacant. Similarly 82 posts of Science teachers, 100 posts of English teachers are laying vacant in the schools run by the Tribal Welfare department.
Where as in the schools run by the School Education department, there are vacancies of 48 Mathematics teachers, 21 Science teachers, 58 English teachers. It is difficult to give a deadline when exactly these posts would be filled up, he said.