Primary education in Jharkhand must be improved: HRD Minister

Ranchi, June 25 (UNI) Jharkhand Human Resorces Development Minister Pradeep Yadav today stressed the need of improving the condition of primary education in the state and appealed to the NGOs to participate in this venture.

Releasing a survey report on school children, the state's Human Resource Development Minister said 17,000 villages did not have a single school but in last six years, the state government had established schools in 10,000 villages. Campaign centres had also been opened in seven thousand villages.

Mr Yadav informed that the government has also initiated a special drive for admitting children between the age group of seven to fourteen years in different schools.

The report says that about fifty per cent students studying in second standard in different government schools in the country cannot even read a sentence, while more than forty five per cent students between seven to forteen years of age were unaware of basic mathematics principles of Mathematics.

The report, by Pratham Resource Centre, a non-government organisation working in the field of primary education was prepared after conducting a survey among children studying in government schools in 19 districts of 17 states in 2004.

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