After 70 years of our independent and popular rule, 70 per cent of our rural schools and educational institutions are without electricity. We claim that the rate of literacy has increased by leaps and bounds and that so many thousands of schools have been added. But hardly care to ask whether even elementary facilities are available in these or not for the student community. It will be recalled that prior to the floating of Prime Minister’s Swachh Bharat programme, a survey of rural schools had revealed the horrible condition of most of them as not having even a toilet particularly for the girl students. How shameful!. A recent study by the HRD Ministry shows that the much touted Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) covering all aspects of rural electrification has not reached 70 per cent of Government schools in the rural areas of our State. There are a total of 25607 schools in rural areas of the State at the elementary level but only 6662 have electricity while as remaining 18,945 schools are still clamoring for this basic facility. In this situation, it is not difficult to imagine how greatly the student community in these schools remains deprived of modern techniques of education and knowledge. While students in towns and cities can man a computer with all ease and confidence, millions of our students in rural areas have not had the luck of having a look of the computer just because they are living in pre-electricity era. This will not help us develop the talent unless we offer facilities and instruments. We could suggest that the PDD might consider of establishing the rural wing of the department to which independent budgetary allocations need to be made along with dedicated staff either through transfer or recruitment to undertake long range plan of providing electricity under DDUGJY scheme.
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