2nd Visit to Barasat

11.9.07

This is my 2nd visit in Barasat. Chairman, DPSC arranged one ASI, Mr. Kaustav Kanti Mondol for inspecting schools. First we came to Mirhati school and submitted our internal report to Mr. Ghosh, The Headmaster. The report contains percentage of students satisfied with different domains of school infrastructures. In analysis of this data, I found positive relation between mid day meal satisfaction and school attendance motivation but no such significant relation of mid day meal satisfaction with basic academic achievement (ability to spell correctly own names, school names, roll no, class and age). In Mirhati, Head Master shown me the wall magazine as I suggested before. I advised him to display the magazine to students and guardians keeping it in front of school entrance. I suggested him to do same for each class.

Next we went to Khelia primary school, 1.5 km away from the national highway. Road is muddy, broken. It is located nearby a pond and one high Madrassa school. Amrita collected data from the students after my turn. The school has no electricity, students sit on the floor, good scientific toilets. School has no specific development fund to manage cost of electricity. School mainly depends upon the Government for its maintenance. Most of the students are Muslims.

Next we went to Uludanga Primary school, located nearby the National highway. School has very good building but electricity. Most of the students are Muslims. Students are motivated but possibly due to language problem, students fail to show their better performance in academic achievement.

Here, we met Mr. Amitava Banerjee, member of school council. I discussed how to teach students in order to reduce reading and writing errors and how to involve guardians in different academic activities of school through school magazine.

Finally, we bade good bye to ASI and returned to ISI. Data set has been handed over to data entry operator of webturbine.