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Shimla:
A mobile school project initiated by the Himachal Pradesh Government
to provide education to tribals has failed to take off due to lack
of trained teaching staff.
Tribals spend six months of winter in the plains and the remaining
six months in the mountains.
"All our children are illiterate. We are also illiterate. Even our
forefathers did not receive any education. No teacher is provided to
us for education. All our life has been spent like that. All our
children are uneducated. Neither the government provided us with any
education facility nor any teacher came here to teach us," said
Kasim, a tribal nomad.
The launch of the mobile schools, a few years ago, had raised hopes
for tribals to get an education for their children. But, according
to them, there are no such schools operating now.
"Nobody comes here to teach us. We stay in the forests here. No
teacher comes here to teach us. The government officials say that we
have sent many teachers to educate us but no teacher has come till
now," said Irshad, another tribal nomad.
State Education Minister I. D. Dhiman said mobile schools have been
closed temporarily, as there is a need to introduce trained teachers
as per the Right to Education Act.
"We considered rethinking this issue because, as per the Right to
Education Bill, we can only use trained teachers for teaching. So,
the people included for teaching under the Education Guarantee
Scheme were almost untrained. They may have been graduates and a few
may be post-graduates as well but they were not trained. So now it's
difficult to use them under the new Right to Education Bill," said
Dhiman.
There were over 330 mobile schools introduced under the EGS
(Education Guarantee Scheme) for over nomadic 6,000 children of the
state, but most of them have been closed.
These mobile schools were introduced to educate and bring tribals
into the mainstream.
(ANI)
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