Girl students protest, demand senior schools in border villages

Jaisalmer: The state government is making efforts to encourage girls' education but in border districts there are no schools with higher classes due to which a large number of girl students drop out. In a village in Jaisalmer district on Wednesday, school girls demonstrated demanding higher classes in their area and submitted a memorandum to district collector Tina Dabi.Dabi assured the girls that soon a proposal will be sent to the state government and a school with higher classes will be opened. There is a shortage of higher schools for girls in the district due to which the dropout rate is high. There are many villages where there are no separate schools for girls and if there is then it is up to primary. Higher classes are far away in other villages and parents do not send their daughters to other villages for studying due to which they drop out.In this regard, in Asayach village in Badoda gram panchayat, the students of Government Girls' Primary School, travelled 35 km to submit a memorandum to Dabi and requested for justice and demanded to upgrade their school to secondary and higher secondary.The girls said that at present they have to travel a long distance to go to study and there is no road from Asayach village to Badoda and also demanded to make a road. On this Dabi assured to get the gravel road constructed in the village and to upgrade the school as per rule.