Today the schools are in bad shape. Teaching is not proper; the children do not have desks to sit, water to drink, fans and urinals are not available. Whenever complaints are sent to the government then no action is taken on those complaints. If government decides to send free fund then people can, in a gram Sabha, decide what essential things are to be provided to the children in school. They will be able to take direct decisions. They would not be obliged to seek some officer’s consent or from a politician or will not be obliged to seek permission from the state government.
In the same way all schools have shortage of teachers. One teacher teaches 200 to 300 children. Sometimes only one teacher teaches children of at least three or four classes at the same time. This type of education is ineffective and wasteful for children. In the name of education a mockery is going on.
If power is given to people then they would look at the problem of shortage of teachers in gram sabhas meeting and employ more teachers that are needed. They would not be required to write to state government to create more posts, fill more vacancies and employ staff. They will decide this issue in the gram Sabha meetings and employ themselves as many teachers as may be needed.
The teachers who are employed even today they do not teach properly. Some come only at the end of the month to collect their salaries and some who come, sit under trees and pass time gossiping with each other instead of teaching and the children then play. If gram sabhas are empowered then the teachers would be accountable to them and the teachers would be subjected to questioning. If need arises then the gram Sabha could punish them, too.
The gram sabhas will have the power to make teachers tow their line.
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