Our CM Pramod Sawant is blaming falling enrolment for government school closures in Goa. The government has neglected public schools due to faulty policy. The private schools, which are driven by market and profit margins, flourish in areas where government schools are not able to attract minimum students. Right to Education Act says there should be one primary school within a kilometre of human habitation, a high school within a three-km range, and one pre-university college within a five-km radius of human habitation. Education is a fundamental right, the government cannot escape from its duties of providing quality education by saying that they cannot sustain schools with low admissions. Closing government primary schools are a matter of concern because if there are no government schools, what will happen to the future of poor children? Today the network of private schools has spread to every corner of the country. Our government schools have failed to meet the running/administration, budget and lack of trained teachers and infrastructural facilities, due to which people's attention has shifted from government schools to private schools.
