{"id":91304,"date":"2025-09-27T21:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=91304"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:31:33","slug":"sorry-state-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/sorry-state-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry State of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1371 schools in JK run by \u2018single teachers<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Sep 27: In Jammu and Kashmir, over 32,000 school students are being taught by single teachers in 1371 educational institutes\u2014thus raising a question on quality of education and availability of staff.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official figures available with the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Jammu and Kashmir has at least 1371 schools wherein single teachers have been posted or deployed.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous report, there were only 1330 schools that were functioning with only a single teacher. However, the recent report suggests that the numbers have increased by at least 41 schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, the government as well as the management of private schools claim that they have a sufficient availability of human resources and infrastructure but the official figures reveal a different story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The figures reveal that there is an enrolment of 32,303 students enrolled in those schools where only single teachers are posted or deployed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pertinently, in previous report, the official figures have revealed that in Jammu and Kashmir more than 31,054 students were enrolled in those schools that were functioning with a single teacher.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, KNO first broke the news of closure of over 4400 government run schools owing to \u2018zero or extremely low\u2019 enrolment of students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In July-2024, the news agency reported that there were a total of 23,117 government run schools in Jammu and Kashmir out of which 4394 have been deleted from the UDISE data.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Secretary, School Education Department and Project Director of Jammu and Kashmir Samagra Shiksha were not available to comment on the issue\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1371 schools in JK run by &lsquo;single teachers&rsquo; Srinagar, Sep 27: In Jammu and Kashmir, over 32,000 school students are being taught by single teachers in 1371 educational institutes&mdash;thus raising a question on quality of education and availability of staff. According to the official figures available with the news agency&mdash;Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Jammu and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91305,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91304\/revisions\/91305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}