Some difficulties faced in the running of schools for girl children in Govindgarh, Rajasthan.
  
 
No water and sanitation facility
  
 
 
 
The Government Primary School, Kakodia Ki Dhani in Udaipuriya was opened in 1999-2000 as Rajiv Gandhi Swarnjayanti School and was upgraded to Primary school with classes up to Vth standard in 2005. Though the school has its own building, it does not have a kitchen shed yet and the mid day meal is prepared by women in the open. The main difficulty the school faces is that it does not have any drinking water facility for the last one year. There is also no water available in the school premise for running the toilet or cooking. A hand-pump installed there is non functional as the water table is very low. The toilet lies unused with a lock on it.
 
 
School without building
 
 
 
 
This school in Udaipuriya was opened in 2005 as Government Girls’ Primary School. At present the school has a total of 22 children enrolled and two lady teachers come to teach in the school after walking two and a half kilometres on a kuchcha road. The school does not have a building of its own and sunshine or rain, the teachers teach children either in a temporary shed or in the open.
  
 
Preparing of mid-day meal inside school a nuisance
  
 
 
 
This Government Upper Primary School, Udaipuriya has a strength of 478 girl students and runs in a courtyard with walls all around it. The preparation of the mid-day meal is also done within the walls of the closed courtyard. This preparation creates a lot of smoke which waft into the classrooms creating difficulties for the children studying there. The school premises sport an ugly look as the waste food is left to rot in the premises itself.
  
 
Single teacher school
  
 
 
  The Government Primary school, Madho Ka Waas in Bhuted Panchayat has only one teacher, Mr Shrawan Kumar Raiger, to a total of 30 children. When we visited the school, it was closed. On asking people, wefound that the school closes at 4:00 PM though the closing time is 4:30 PM. In the school there are two posts of teachers and two have been appointed but one teacher has been deputed to another school. Even after the Block Elementary Education Officer (BEEO) of the area reinstated him back to this school, he has not been released by the head master of the school where he has been deputed and he is not coming to the primary school.  
 
Students study in galleries
  
 
 
 
PRIA is working in the Janjgir district of Chhattisgarh to promote Girl Child Education. For that purpose PRIA has selected 10 Gram Panchayats (GPs) in Baloda block of Janjgir district. Some interventions have been carried out in these GPs, in the last few years.
  
     
 
However, challenges are still there. One such challenge is faced by students of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV), Nagarda. Due to poor infrastructure and partially-constructed classrooms, students are forced to sit in galleries of the school. The rooms of the school are cramped and suffocating. Also, these rooms are being used for dual purposes. In the morning classes take place in the rooms whereas at nights these are converted into sleeping rooms.