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The
number of Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) for per
thousand person in state is lowest in Bihar.
I did a small comparison between states of
India, on the basis of number of Kendriya
Vidyalayas (KVs) operational for per thousand of
population.
For this we can leave UTs apart as they are
solely controlled by the Central government.
I have chosen KVs because they are set up by the
Central Government to provide education to the
children of Central government employees working
in that state for most of the central government
organizations located in that state.
This data becomes a benchmark of how central
government is investing in that state in terms
of generating employment as local population is
greatly helped in getting employments at all
levels in these institutions.
So density of KVs in a state is one of the
metric, showing investments done by central
government in terms of opening all types of
institutions viz. IITs IIMs, medical
institutions, Central universities etc, Defence
and paramilitary establishments, DRDO, ISRO CSIR
and other scientific labs etc).
For this analysis I have picked up data from
population from
1) Population of States:
http://www.censusindia.net/profiles/index.html
2) Number of KVs Statewise:
http://kvsangathan.nic.in/kvstatewise.htm
(In other words this is the data made available
by the Central Govt only.)
It is really sad and humiliating to see that our
state Bihar is the last in the list, i.e. number
of KVs/1000 person in Bihar is minimum, i.e.
even states which have larger population than
Bihar, like UP and Maharashtra have more number
of KVs for per 1000 person living there.
Ok, this can be argued that number of KVs should
not be compared against the population of the
state as they are meant for central government
employees. Also Bihar is one of the highly
populated states. The irony is being last on the
list Bihar lags behind states having more
population than Bihar, for example UP and
Maharashtra.
This is one of the benchmarks that indicates how
Bihar has been marginalized for past 60 years in
terms of investment, may it be central
institutions, defense/paramilitary set ups/
scientific and defense labs, various training
academy for various central services, opening of
public sector units like NTPC, BHEL, BEL, HAL,
etc.
The repercussion of this neglect by the central
government is also impacting the investment by
private industrial bodies as they cannot see any
business opportunity in the state when compared
against Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai,
Mysore, Bhubaneswar, or other state capitals,
apart from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, which have
been traditional business hubs and have been
known to the world.
After the departure of Jharkhand, we have been
in a situation which is worst than when
Britishers left India because in those times
Bihar had coal belt and Jamshedpur as the
industrial hub.
This implies that for a state of 8 crore people
(more than 8% of total population), the
investment by subsequent central governments
irrespective of political parties coming to
power has been minimum. Bihar has been the last
choice for setting up any defense, civil,
scientific, or any other institutions by Govt of
India, even though the state contributes
significantly to UPSC, Defense, IIT etc in terms
of human resource.
Also it is time for us to think about what we
expect from our representatives when they go to
Delhi, who cannot bring investments from the
central government.
As of today, Bihar is unwelcome everywhere. It
is evident from the the hostile attacks on
Bihari students in Maharashtra when they go
their to appear in different examinations.
Unhealthy comments and allegations made by Smt
Sheila Dixit, CM Delhi against Biharis living in
Delhi and mass murder is committed by terrorist
organizations of Assam to terrorize Biharis who
are working there.
So in the light of these facts may be the
government should only tell us what choice we
have left, when there is no investment by the
central government to generate employment in the
state and at the same time not allowing us to
work outside in other states.
|
State |
KVs |
Population
in 1000 |
No of
KV/in 1000 |
| Andhra
Pradesh |
47 |
75,728 |
0.00062065 |
|
Assam |
50 |
26,638 |
0.00187699 |
| Bihar |
38 |
82,879 |
0.0004585 |
|
Chhattisgarh |
24 |
20,796 |
0.00115407 |
| Delhi |
41 |
13,783 |
0.00297468 |
|
Goa |
5 |
1,344 |
0.00372024 |
|
Gujarat |
42 |
50,597 |
0.00083009 |
|
Haryana |
27 |
21,083 |
0.00128065 |
| J&K |
36 |
6,077 |
0.00592373 |
|
Jharkhand |
31 |
26,909 |
0.00115201 |
|
Karnataka |
35 |
52,734 |
0.00066371 |
|
Kerala |
28 |
31,839 |
0.00087944 |
| MP |
79 |
60,385 |
0.00130827 |
|
Maharashtra |
53 |
96,752 |
0.00054779 |
|
Meghalaya |
7 |
2,306 |
0.00303547 |
|
Manipur |
7 |
2,389 |
0.00293055 |
|
Mizoram |
2 |
891 |
0.00224452 |
|
Nagaland |
5 |
1,989 |
0.00251429 |
| Orissa |
34 |
36,707 |
0.00092626 |
|
Punjab |
39 |
24,289 |
0.00160565 |
|
Rajasthan |
56 |
56,473 |
0.00099162 |
|
Sikkim |
3 |
540 |
0.00555049 |
| Tamil
Nadu |
34 |
62,111 |
0.00054741 |
|
Tripura |
6 |
3,191 |
0.00188019 |
| UP |
95 |
166,053 |
0.00057211 |
|
Uttaranchal |
41 |
8,479 |
0.00483516 |
| West
Bengal |
51 |
8,480 |
0.00601446 |
When same
comparative study is done with the number of
Jawahar Navoday Vidyalayas (JNV), we are 9th
from the last (that also is not very good!!!)
and not the bottom one, because to start the JNV,
the central government does not need to put any
investment apart from what is required to set
the school whereas the KVs are directly attached
with some larger investment done by the central
government.
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Comments: |
Thanks
PatnaDaily and Divyanshu for this
very analytical article on Bihar.
Can we pass this to our HRD minister
as well as his associates like the
one from Bihar, Fatami Sahab? -
Ranjan Rituraj Sinh, NOIDA - Sept.
8, 2007
The
Union Minister of State for Human
Resources Development Shri M A A
Fatmi announced on the 22nd December
2006 in Patna that Kendriya
Vidyalaya would be set up in six
remaining districts of Bihar namely,
Rohtas, Kaimur, Aurangabad, Arwal,
Sheikhpura and Jamui in the 11th
Five year Plan. Five months of 11th
Five year Plan has passed but no
action is evident in any one of the
above districts for opening of the
Kendriya Vidyalayas.
I have been writing to the Kendriya
Vidyalaya Sangathan New Delhi since
2003 to set up a Kendriya Vidyalaya
at Sheikhpura, a backward district
but nothing has been done. I have
been asked by the Dy. Commissioner,
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan to make
available .8 acre of land free of
cost together with making available
free accommodation to the employees
and teachers and rent free building
for running the classes until the
building is constructed.
At this I apprised the HRD Minister
and Union Minister of State for HRD,
and Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya
Sangathan about this. I have also
requested the Principal, Jawahar
Navodaya Vidyalaya Sheikhpura and
the chairman of the Vidyalaya who is
the District Magistrate of
Sheikhpura to convince the Principal
to hand over .8 dare of land from
her vidyalaya as this vidyalaya is
in possession of 25 acres of land
which seems to be very much but no
reply from any source has been
received till date.
This is an instance what the Central
Government does for betterment of
education in the State of Bihar. It
is not understood why the Central
Government pay step-motherly
treatment to Bihar in all matters. -
Shiva Nandan Prasad, Bangalore -
Sept. 8, 2207 |
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