COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN - Puri District

Comprehensive Development Plan – PKDA 2031The chart below shows the analysis of the household information surveyed to assess the status ofschooling access for residents in Puri and Konark areas.About 81% of the respondents in Konark and 49% in Puri state the requirement of primary schools isless as compared to the population and hence a demand for Primary educational facilities. A very lesspercentage of about 15%in Konark and 21% suggested for provision of Secondary school facilities.Equal numbers of people, about 2% in Konark require higher secondary school which signifies thatthere are very less number of higher educational facilities in the area compared with the population.Fig 9.4: HH access to education facility: Puri townSource: Census data, CEPT analysisFig 9.5: HH access to education facility: KonarkSource: Census data, CEPT analysisThe summary of the facilities from the above analysis cane be stated as following: Puri sadar has 4 primary schools, and 3 middle schools and no higher secondary school orcollege reducing the scope for higher education for residents. SIZ area has adequate 57 primary schools. 21 middle schools, 13 secondary schools, and 1college Konark has only 5 primary schools. Seems to be adequate for existing population. Block-A has 10 primary schools, 6 middle schools, 4 secondary schools Block-B has 6 primary schools, 2 middle schools and requires more facilities. Puri Sadar area has a requirement of primary, middle and secondary school facilities. On a whole the educational facilities are found to be satisfactory except in Puri Sadar andBlock-B area. There are no colleges in any areas except SIZ area delimiting the scope for higher education.CEPT, Ahmedabad 221