Education is not just a concern about the educational development of children but it is also a concern about the growth of institutions everywhere in the world and same holds good for Jammu & Kashmir .In Jammu & Kashmir the education in government schools suffers from the crisis of credibility not because of the staff shortage but because of the lack of basic infrastructural facilities. Though Government has launched an enrollment drive for furthering the causes of improvement in enrollments in Government schools but the response to the enrollment drive is not as encouraging as it should have been only because of poor infrastructural facilities. The response to the intense enrollment drive of Government schools would have been more encouraging if the Government would have simultaneously launched a program for improving the basic infrastructural facilities in Government run schools particularly in villages. Irrefutable fact is that literacy rate is not the only indicator of a great education system but the biggest indicator of a great education system is the availability of basic infrastructural facilities in schools, colleges and universities for better educational and physical upbringing of the children. Unfortunately the upgradation of the basic infrastructural schools is yet to become a preferred priority and instead fresh recruitments for increasing the staff shortage is still a preferred priority of both the school and higher education departments in Jammu & Kashmir. Though fresh recruitments for increasing staff strength in schools is good for furthering the causes of quality education but the availability of basic infrastructural facilities can’t be compromised because of the fact that quality infrastructural facilities attract huge enrollments in private schools of both Kashmir and Jammu divisions.
Availability of good infrastructural facilities in government schools is not only good for increasing enrollments but it is also good for creating an environment of competition for quality education in Jammu & Kashmir likes several states and union territories of the country. For all practical purposes education is not only directly linked with the educational development of children but it is largely linked with the growth of institutions.
So better the infrastructural facilities more encouraging would be the response of the enrollment drives in Government schools. While the wage bill of the teaching staff of the school education department is almost next to wage bill of J&K Police Department but the annual budget for upgradation of the infrastructural facilities is not even half of the wage bill of the teaching staff of the school education department. For all practical purposes the school education department can’t improve the basic infrastructural facilities in Government schools without increasing the annual budget for basic infrastructural facilities. Availability of good infrastructural facilities in government schools is not only good for increasing enrollments but it is also good for creating an environment of competition for quality education in Jammu & Kashmir likes several states and union territories of the country. For all practical purposes education is not only directly linked with the educational development of children but it is largely linked with the growth of institutions.
