In a digital era, over 1,100 government schools, mostly elementary, are functioning withoutelectricity, the informed the state assembly.
There are over 50,000 government-run schools in the state, from elementary to senior secondary level.
The minister also stated that 2,979 elementary schools have single-teachers, while 15,161 schools of the same category are being managed by two teachers each. Altogether 8,207 elementary schools have three teachers each. Pegu informed the house that there were no secondary-level schools with such a low count of teachers. Contrary to the scenario of single-teacher schools, the state government said there have been 2,916 elementary schools that have more than seven teachers each. The number of high schools and higher secondary schools with more than seven teachers each were 4,129.
Quoting the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) 2021-22 findings, Pegu informed that 3,117 schools do not have toilet facilities for boys, whereas 1,693 lack toilets for girls. Most of these schools also belong to the elementary standards.
On the other hand, 1,124 schools inAssamdo not have proper drinking water, of which 1,066 are elementary and 58 are secondary-level schools.