Express News Service.
Bhubaneswar : About 40,000 students are studying in 385 Oriya schools on the border areas of the neighbouring states. Over 500 teachers have been appointed in these schools.While the highest number of 186 schools are in Chhattisgarh, West Bengal has only one school to impart education in Oriya. While Jharkhand has 113 such schools, Andhra Pradesh has 85 schools.
Most of these institutions are one-teacher schools which lack even basic infrastructure to impart education. While most of these function from dilapidated buildings or do not have buildings at all, in many instances it has been found that the schools do not have Oriya teachers. Delay in supply of textbooks to these schools often affects teaching.
Official sources, however, maintained that these schools are running well and there is no basis to the charges that Oriya language is being neglected in these regions. The State Government has taken several initiatives through the Utkal Sammilani for promotion of the language among the Oriya- speaking people.Besides claiming that books are being supplied to these schools in time, sources claimed that scholarships are given to students of Class III, V, VII and X. Scholarships are given according to three criteria: Students who get the highest marks in the class in Oriya, scholarship considering merit and income of their parents and highest marks in Oriya by tribal students.The State Government also provides financial assistance through the School and Mass Education Department to the Utkal Sammilani for purchase of books for libraries, equipment for science laboratories and furniture for classrooms. Besides, teaching aids are also supplied by the State Government regularly.However, there is an allegation that these announcements are confined to files and little materialises at the field level. It is being demanded that the State Government should increase its assistance to these schools and effectively monitor the quality of education.
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