Lok Sabha Question No. 3389 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-16
Subject: Modern Infrastructure for High Quality Education in Schools
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Shri Ram Shiromani Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO3389

ANSWERED ON- 16/12/2024

## MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS

- (a) whether the Government is aware of the non-availability of modern infrastructure facilities and  modern  teaching  equipments  to  provide  high  quality  education  to  children  in Government  schools  and  Government  aided  schools  in  the  districts  of  Uttar  Pradesh

†3389. Shri Ram Shiromani Verma: Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state: particularly in Shravasti and Balrampur districts; (b) if so, the steps taken by the Government in this regard; and

- (c) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to construct road to faciliate students to reach schools situated in the areas where water is logged in rainy season?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

(a) to (c): The Department of School Education and Literacy is implementing an integrated centrally sponsored scheme for School education- Samagra Shiksha with effect from the year 2018-19. The Scheme has now been aligned with the recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and aims to ensure that all children have access to quality education with an equitable and inclusive classroom environment, which should take care of their diverse background, multilingual needs, different academic abilities and make them active participants in the learning process.

Under  Samagra  Shiksha,  financial  assistance  is  provided  to  the  States/UTs  for creation  and  augmentation  of  infrastructure  facilities  to  strengthen  the  existing  school infrastructure. The requirement of infrastructural facilities in schools are worked out every year by the respective State/Union Territory on incremental basis depending on their need and priority and reflected in their Annual Work Plan & Budget (AWP&B) proposals. These plans  are  then  appraised  and  approved  by  the  Project  Approval  Board  (PAB)  in  the

Department in consultation with the States and Union Territories as per the programmatic and financial norms of the scheme, physical and financial progress of works sanctioned earlier and availability of budgetary resources.

The  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  maintains  Unified  District Information System for Education Plus (U-DISE+) as Management Information Systems(MIS). U-DISE+ collects information from all the schools (government, aided and private)  annually  on  various  educational  indicators  including  educational  and  digital infrastructure facilities in schools across all States and UTs.

As per UDISE+ 2021-22, the percentage availability of Educational infrastructure in the  State  of  Uttar  Pradesh  particularly  in  the  district  of  Shravasti  and  Balrampur  are  as follows:

| Percentage of school having infrastructure             | Percentage of school having infrastructure             | Percentage of school having infrastructure             | Percentage of school having infrastructure             | Percentage of school having infrastructure             | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   | Percentage of school having infrastructure   |
|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|                                                        | Electricity                                            | Electricity                                            | Drinking water                                         | Drinking water                                         | Girls Toilets                                | Girls Toilets                                | Boys Toilets                                 | Boys Toilets                                 | Handwash                                     | Handwash                                     | Playground                                   | Playground                                   | Library                                      | Library                                      | Ramps                                        | Ramps                                        | Handrails                                    | Handrails                                    |
|                                                        | G                                                      | GA                                                     | G                                                      | GA                                                     | G                                            | GA                                           | G                                            | GA                                           | G                                            | GA                                           | G                                            | GA                                           | G                                            | GA                                           | G                                            | GA                                           | G                                            | GA                                           |
| Uttar Pradesh                                          | 85.1                                                   | 84.9                                                   | 99.2                                                   | 99.4                                                   | 98.3                                         | 98.4                                         | 97.6                                         | 97.4                                         | 95.8                                         | 91.8                                         | 73.7                                         | 88.6                                         | 96.3                                         | 71.0                                         | 84.4                                         | 56.6                                         | 66.2                                         | 33.5                                         |
| Balrampur                                              | 80.6                                                   | 84.8                                                   | 98.3                                                   | 100.0                                                  | 98.4                                         | 100.0                                        | 97.8                                         | 100.0                                        | 96.7                                         | 93.9                                         | 68.0                                         | 93.9                                         | 98.5                                         | 87.9                                         | 87.5                                         | 75.8                                         | 68.0                                         | 54.5                                         |
| Shrawasti                                              | 93.6                                                   | 94.7                                                   | 99.5                                                   | 100.0                                                  | 99.0                                         | 100.0                                        | 98.7                                         | 100.0                                        | 96.1                                         | 94.7                                         | 68.4                                         | 100.0                                        | 95.0                                         | 89.5                                         | 78.3                                         | 57.9                                         | 57.4                                         | 36.8                                         |
| G - Government schools, GA - Government aided schools, | G - Government schools, GA - Government aided schools, | G - Government schools, GA - Government aided schools, | G - Government schools, GA - Government aided schools, | G - Government schools, GA - Government aided schools, | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        | Source- UDISE+2021-22                        |

Further, as per the information provided by the State of Uttar Pradesh, details of the facilities  for  the  parishadiya  primary/upper  primary  schools  of  Shravasti  and  Balrampur districts are as below:

|               | No. of Tablets (primary schools)   | No. of smart classrooms (upper primary schools)   |   No. of ICT Labs at Block Resource Centres |
|---------------|------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,09,863                           | 18,381                                            |                                         880 |
| Shrawasti     | 1,722                              | 197                                               |                                          05 |
| Balrampur     | 3,005                              | 247                                               |                                          10 |

Moreover, education is a subject in the Concurrent list of the Constitution and most of  the  schools  come under  the  administrative  domain  of the  concerned States and UTs which are the appropriate Government under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education  (RTE)  Act, 2009,  and  have  the  responsibility  and  mandate  to  provide infrastructure in schools in accordance with the norms laid down in the Schedule to the RTE Act, 2009 and as per respective State RTE Rules. Further, the State/UT Governments are also responsible to provide ease of access to schools and remove all the infrastructural barriers that may hamper/restrict the students' access to schools.

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