The Praja Foundation had commissioned a household survey to Hansa Research, which was conducted in March-April across the city of Mumbai, with a sample size of 22,850 households.
As many as 44 per cent parents of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai school students are dissatisfied with the quality of education, while 42 per cent are not happy with the teachers, according to a Praja Foundation study.
The study also showed that the enrollment of students is increasing by the year in English medium schools run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), known as Mumbai Public Schools (MPS), while the vernacular enrollment is dropping.
The Praja Foundation had commissioned a household survey to Hansa Research, which was conducted in March-April across the city of Mumbai, with a sample size of 22,850 households.
Praja's latest white paper on state of education in BMC schools reveals the condition is same year after year, with no significant improvement. The study also revealed that BMC schools enrollments are still decreasing. The number of enrolment in MPS schools, however, is going up. In the last five years, enrollment in schools run by MCGM has dropped by around 40,778 students, an aggregate drop of 9 per cent. The Class I enrolment is decreasing at a more alarming rate than ever, according to the study.
Nitai Mehta, founder and managing trustee of the Praja Foundation, said, "Going by the current trend, the day is not far when the municipal schools will probably have more teachers and other employees than the students. When school inspectors rank the quality of teachers as excellent; when in the internal CCE under the RTE Act most students are getting more than 60 per cent marks; when the infrastructure compliance under the RTE Act is almost 100 per cent, then why are the parents shifting their children to private schools?"
Mehta added, "If we want to make this country a knowledge economy and want programmes such as digital India, smart cities and skill India to be successful, the basic education of the country should be improved, especially at the primary level."
Praja project director Milind Mhaske said, "Under the sixth pay commission, municipal employees are getting Rs6,000 (per child, for maximum up to two children) for school education. Why do the tax payers have to bear this expense, when we run about 1,252 schools across the city? Can't BMC employees send their children to the schools run and managed by them? Under this scheme, MCGM spent about Rs1.68 crore in 2014-15?"
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