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Long way to go for school infrastructure development in India, over 37% schools have no electricity
The government told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that over 37% of schools have no electricity connections till March 2017 highlighting the fact that there is still a long way to go for school infrastructure development in India.
The government told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that over 37% of schools have no electricity connections till March 2017 highlighting the fact that there is still a long way to go for school infrastructure development in India. Only 62.81% schools in the country have electricity connections.
Jharkhand is at the bottom of the list of states with just 19% schools in the state having access to electricity. Some of the other states with poor access to electricity are Assam (25%) and Meghalaya (28.54%). Bihar (37.78%), Madhya Pradesh (28.80%), Manipur (39.27%), Odisha (33.03%) and Tripura (29.77%) complete the bottom of the list.
Delhi, the national capital along with Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep and Puducherry top the list with 100% schools having electricity connection.
Minister of State (HRD), Upendra Kushwaha in a written response to a question at the Rajya Sabha stated that the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) annually collects the information on various educational indicators including infrastructural facilities in schools through the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE).
The centre supported state governments and Union Territory administrations for creation and augmentation of infrastructure facilities including electrification in government elementary and secondary schools under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan programmes, he informed . Under SSA, 1,87,248 elementary schools have been provided internal electrification up to 2016-17 and under RMSA, electricity had been provided in 12,930 secondary schools so far.
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