Classroom

Large number of students in small classroom is a major problem in rural areas due to inadequate distribution of resources in the classroom. Here resources are:
1. space for benches, tables
2. space for keeping furniture, like almirah or cabinet
3. space for keeping platform for teachers
4. space for moving around



In the above classroom, students find difficulty to move around freely. Specially, during Tiffin periods, students play different indoor games like hide and seek etc. They can not play in this room. There is no dustbin in the classroom. Dustbin is important to keep floor clean. Teacher's table-space seems to be inadequate to keep her books, attendance registers, etc. The blackboard is very big. It is good for teacher. For her need, she can clean some portion of the board and can write new one in another portion.
Students' sitting position is below the blackboard. Therefore, they are forced to look above their eyesight. This may cause neck pain. The walls have no hooks where in student’s drawing or other academic activity can be pasted.

During my earlier survey in Tripura, I have seen that many classrooms have no compartments. In Mandai of Trpura, students of different grades study in one classroom without any compartment. But still now, I have not seen similar condition in WB.

NUEPA's study:
Recent researches conducted by National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) observed that about 75,000 primary schools have no classroom.
Here is the report:
The report, "Elementary Education in India: Where Do We Stand?" by National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NEUPA) said at least 10.15 percent of such schools are running without classrooms.
"Forget about buildings, 74,893 primary schools (Class I-V) have no classrooms. It's a great worrying point," said Arun Mehta, who was part of the countrywide survey.
The percentage of schools without classrooms in urban areas is 13.9 as against 9.6 in rural areas, the report said.
"Whopping 40.41 percent primary schools in Jharkhand have no classrooms," said Mehta, adding that 37.62 percent of primary schools in Jharkhand have only two classrooms.
Ref: http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Nearly_75,000_primary_schools_in_India_have_no_classroom_853/