Education

Primary, Secondary and College education is managed by three separate Directorates at the State Level and similarly there are three different Heads at District Level. Primary Education is managed by the District Education Officer ( Primary), Secondary Education by District Education Officer ( Secondary) manage the day to day affairs of primary education. There are no Sub-Division level officers at Sub-Division level either in Primary Education or Secondary Education, whereas in Primary Education there are 14 Education Blocks Headed by Block Primary Education Officers in each Block, there is no block level officer to manage the Secondary Education. Of course, there are two Deputy District Education Officer at Secondary level in the District to assist the District Education Officer. There are several more officials to help the District Education Officer(s) in their respective fields such as District Science Supervisor looks after Science Education in the District, District Coordinator (Vocation) to look after Vocational Education in the District, Assistant Education officer ( Physical Education ) and Assistant District Guidance Counselor to look after guidance activities in the district schools. An Administrative Officer responsible for the office work of Establishment Branch, Drawing and Disbursing powers are also invested with him to provide more time to District Education Officer(s) for inspection work in schools. Yet little time is left with this officer to justify his exigencies as he has also to cope with hundreds of court cases and a large number of day to day meetings with higher officers and Teachers’ organizations.

There are 863 primary, 189 middle, 173 High and 100 Senior Secondary Schools in District Sangrur. Nearly 95% of the middle, High and Senior Secondary Schools are situated on link roads and remaining 5% are situated either on main road or in towns. 90% of the schools have facilities for drinking water. 87% of schools have separate urinals for girls where as 13% schools do not have such facility. Funds for building separate urinals for girls and boys may be provided to these institutions.

Almost all the urban schools are housed in Govt. buildings where annual repairs and whitewashing is done by P.W.D. authorities. Such buildings may be assumed as safe buildings.

The district Education is network is given below

Number of Primary Schools

It has 45.3 Primary schools per lac of population and has 17.18 schools per 100 sq. km. While the state average is 56 and 25 Schools. But in number of Middle schools, it is close to state average. Gross enrolment for the male children is 98.11 percent and 89.17 percent for female in the age group of 6-11. Enrolment for 11-14 age is 98.01 percent for male and 99.00 for female. Overall enrolment for 6-14 age group is 94 percent which is adequate. Survey conducted in 1991 by 255 Sangrur reveals that 4586 males and 4088 females are still not going for school. Similarly 18689 children of age group 6-11 are not going to school.

Building is the first and foremost requirement of primary school students and it should also have other utilities such as Furniture, drinking water facilities, blackboards, chalks toilets etc. The school building should be safe and attractive to the children. It should have sufficient number of class rooms with verandah and surrounded by a compound wall. Flower beds and grassy parks should adorn the environment of the school.

In Sangrur District the picture of primary schools s rather dismal, as is clear from the following details:-

In the prevailing system of education for 6-14 age group, students are studying in four different level school i.e. from Ist to Vth standard, they study in Primary schools, From Vth to VIIIth standard they can enroll themselves in middle schools, High Schools or senior secondary schools. The qualifications of Primary Schools Teachers are different from those of middle , High or Senior Secondary School Teachers.

In primary Schools, Instructions are imparted by J.B.T. qualified Teachers which have been upgraded to E.T.T. qualified teachers. Promotions for Head Teachers, Central Head Teachers and B.P.E.Os are still made out of J.B.T. Teachers. In Middle, High or Senior Secondary Schools, Instructions to VIth to VIIIth class are imparted by Graduate Trained Teachers having proficiency in teaching their relevant subjects.

The following table gives the sanctioned working strength and vacant posts of Primary teachers in District Sangrur:-

Teacher Pupils Ratio comes to 1:46 in Govt. Schools and 1:49 in private schools, Similarly Teacher Pupil Ratio is 1:31 in Govt. Schools for middle classes and the same is 1:29 for private schools.

Administration Setup

Administration Setup

Teachers

Total Students as on 30-09-2003

Total S.C. Students as on 30-09-2003

Administration Setup

Schools

Teachers

Teachers

Total Students as on 30-09-2003

Total S.C. Students as on 30-09-2003

Started In 2000.