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Education Dept To Challenge Survey, State Rating Slipped From Last Year's Fourth Position To EighthBy akansha, Section Education
After the Educational Development Index (EDI) showed Delhi had slipped from its fourth rank to the eighth place in elementary education, the state is considering taking up the matter with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and National University of Educational Planning and Administration, officials said.
According to the report on the District Information System for Education website prepared by the HRD Ministry the upper primary schools suffered because of poor infrastructure and were ranked 20, 15 notches down from the position in 2007-08.
 Delhi Education officials, meanwhile, attribute the slip in ratings to the fact that all schools unaided, private, those under the civic agencies and those run by the state are all clubbed together for the report and this year's parameters were different from the past. They also claim the survey confused the staff and data was wrongly computed and compiled. Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said: "We are studying the report. Somewhere some mistake has been committed, either on our part or theirs. How is it possible that the number of toilets have decreased from last year when we have opened new schools and when we are a step ahead and have separate toilets for girls?" "We should be compared to other urban metro cities and judged on that basis. Our PTR (pupil-teacher ratio) is 1:38 and that's a good ratio. We are trying to figure out where the mistakes occurred in the report so that we can rectify those," the minister added. Source: The Indian Express Education dept to challenge survey Click On "Full Story" For More....
For instance, officials said, the surveyors insisted on the number of classrooms and teachers for the primary and upper primary and many principals did not include the library or the common laboratories in the list. Similarly, many common teachers such as yoga and music teachers may not have been included on the list by the principals. State Project Director for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan V P Singh feels this has hurt the government's report card. "The state intends to take up this matter with the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) and the Ministry of Human Resource Development. There are many areas in which the state has shown improvement, including the quality outcome at upper primary level even after adopting `no detention policy' up to Class VII in government schools," Singh said. The state's ranking in respect to the PTR and qualification of teachers also took a beating and slipped from third position to sixth in 2008-09. The Directorate of Education runs 925 schools and the civic body runs around 1,800 primary schools. In the EDI survey, 56 per cent of the 4,930 schools covered were government schools. The number of government schools in Delhi currently stands at 975 and Lovely said 18 more will open shortly. Education department officials highlighted the state's growth in terms of infrastructure at schools and improved scores in some areas such as for `schools with drinking water facility'. Here the ranking in 2008-09 is 100 over 99.54 of 2007-08. Again, the number of common toilets shows a decrease because the state constructed separate toilets for girls and boys. In 2007-08, the score for schools with common toilets was 90.45; in 2008-09 it was 52.82. But in the same period, the score for separate toilets for girls rose by 13.72 to 87.87.
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