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Visit in Hooghly District

Seakhala
19.6.07


For my project, I have visited two schools of Seakhala today - Benimadhab high school for boys and for girls. Seakhala is in Chanditala block 1 of Hooghly district. This place is famous for Benimadhab Ganguly, Writer of English Grammer. Two schools are near to Ahalyabai road where in Bidyasagar mahashay once passed through. Two schools are famous among other schools of Hooghly district. Initial name was Shaiba khetra later modified into Shiba khetra and finally to the current name. Gargi and Puskar my 2 students for MBA project assisted me in collection of data. Data included school report card, socio-economic status, attitude towards school infrastructures and motivation to attend the school. Mr. Ashoke Saha drove the Jeep. Mr. Mahadeb Dutta (H.M. of Boys), Ms. Alpana Bag (H.M. of Girls) and Mr. Narottam Chatterjee (Head Clerk of Girls school) arranged rooms in the schools for collection of data. It took at least 1 hour to fill up the questionnaire and 30 minutes for evaluating registrar. We started at 9-30 am and returned at 5-45 pm.

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22.6.07
Polba Dadpur block is in the northern part of Hooghly district. It has 12 gram panchayets.

Our rented car started at 9 a.m. from ISI. and we reached at the block office at 9-45 a.m. Panchayet sabhapati went to Jila sabhadhipati meeting so we could not meet him in person. BDO helped us by introducing teachers of girls high school over phone. From block office, the school was 3 km away from block office. We three (Gargi, Puskar and me) collected data from the students of grade V. 2 assistant teachers assisted us in collection of data. From there, we went to DI office at Chunchura. DI office was very cooperative.
Some of the observations are given below:

1. Schools are getting fixed grant from the Govt for salaries of teachers and staffs;
2. Schools depend on SSA fund and MP Quota fund for development of school infrastructures. Current school built cycle shed and pucca toilets from SSA grant and MP quota.
3. Schools can not afford any innovation with meagre school fees.
4. Since there is no night guard, school gardens are destroyed by local boys after school as they play at the ground.
5. This school had panels but doors.
6. As school is used for other purposes, bulbs are lost.
7. DI shows his curiosity to know more about the findings.