Ensure internet facility in schools

Amid the implementation of National Education Policy-2020, the schools in Jammu & Kashmir are still facing infrastructure deficit, which in the result pushes the students to the wall and also keeps them away from the mandatory training within the educational institutions. A report published in a local daily reads, “The School Education Department (SED) in Jammu and Kashmir has miserably failed to equip the educational institutions with the functional internet connections despite the repeated advisory and guidelines issued by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.” It has quoted a figure, which reveals that only 22 percent of the schools in J&K are equipped with functional internet facility. The Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan revealed the figures in the ongoing session of Rajya Sabha while replying to the queries of the Member of Parliament Sanjay Raut. The figures itself reveal how the students are being deprived of the basic facilities in the educational institutions across Jammu & Kashmir as the mandatory tool internet has not been ensured at all the educational institutions in the Union Territory. It shows how the educational institutions are being poorly treated amid the National Educational Policy, which has been implemented to make sure that the students are well skilled besides imparting education among them. Therefore, the administration needs to look into the matter and ensure that such a mandatory facility is ensured in the educational institutions at the shortest possible time so that the students would be able to get trained and skilled properly at a young age.