Balumath

1 in 13 schools here has an issue in the government’s record

10 of 126 girls’ and co-ed schools

2.1× the Latehar average (1 in 27)

School register

Every school here is on this list for one reason: its own UDISE+ 2024-25 return shows no working girls’ toilet. The rest of its record is listed beside it.

School	What its record shows	Teachers	Children
AADARSH VIDYA SHIKSHA NIKETAN BALU Classes 1–5	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, no library, no ramp	3	31
COMERCE ACADEMY KALKALIYA Classes 1–5 · Balu	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, no library, no playground, no ramp, one teacher for the whole school, no female teacher	1	39
GOLDEN LIFE PUBLIC SCHOOL Classes 1–5 · Balumath	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, nowhere to wash hands, no library, no ramp, no female teacher	5	27
GOVT PS DIWAKARNAGAR Classes 1–5 · Balumath	no girls’ toilet, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, no playground, no ramp, a classroom needing major repair	3	127
PIONEER PUBLIC SCHOOL KURIYAM KHURD Classes 1–5 · Kuriam Khurd	girls’ toilet does not function, no accessible toilet, no library, no ramp	4	3
PS BALBAL Classes 1–5	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, no playground, no ramp, one teacher for the whole school, no female teacher	1	46
UPG PS DUMARTOLA Classes 1–5 · Bhagea	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, no electricity, no ramp	2	47
UPG PS MAHUATAR Classes 1–5 · Jarri	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, nowhere to wash hands, no library, no playground	2	43
UPG PS MANSINGHA Classes 1–5	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, no ramp	2	89
UPG PS PINDRAHI Classes 1–5 · Semarsot	girls’ toilet does not function, no boys’ toilet, no accessible toilet, no library, no playground, no ramp, a classroom needing major repair, no female teacher	3	141

What else these schools report

Of the 10 schools in Balumath listed here, this is what their own UDISE+ 2024-25 records show. These counts describe those schools, not every school in Balumath.

10 No accessible toilet for disabled children
9 No working toilet for boys
9 No ramp for disabled children
6 No library
5 No playground
4 No female teacher
2 Nowhere to wash hands
2 A classroom needs major repair
2 Only one teacher for the whole school
1 No electricity

Elected representatives in the area

The sitting members for the assembly seats these schools fall in. Listed because they are who to ask — not as a claim that they caused it.

Prakash Ram BJP Latehar · 10 of these schools Record

Photographs from Election Commission of India affidavits, as published by MyNeta (ADR).