jaipur the mazdoor kisan shakti sangathan mkss has accused the state government of following discriminatory policies against girls schools forcing them to lock it down at several places across rajasthan girl students in several districts including ajmer rajsamand jaisalmer and jhalawar had lock down schools demanding teachers and facilities in the last three days since the start of a new academic session over 50 girls schools have raised protest against the shortage of teachers facilities and infrastructure but in vain even three schools in chief minister vasundhara rajes constituency at bakani ratlai and choumala village saw angry students boycott classes on tuesday the series of protest has exposed repeated tall clams made by the education minister vasudev devnani of appropriate studentteacher ratio in every school after staffing pattern introduced by him the mkss says that if this continues it will discourage the girl education in the state which is already facing the embarrassment of having highest dropout of girls 12 in the country nikhil dey of mkss questioned the process adopted by the state education department to accord model school status to some schools in each block model schools are those which are getting special assistance from the state insignificant number of girls schools was chosen for model school status in some constituencies like bhim in rajsamand not a single school was accorded this status shows the indifferent attitude of state towards girls education said dey while hearing the grievances of public at jhalawar on wednesday they questioned the staffing pattern introduced by the state which has left several schools with teachers less than 10 of the actual strength quoting figures from the dise report dey said the average studentteacher ratio is rajasthans secondary and senior secondary schools were 138 the ratio of girls to boys enrollment in the same year was 72 at secondary and 64 at the higher secondary level for every 100 boys our independent report says that in several girls school the pupilteacher ratio is 1100 added dey such series of protest by girls are a new phenomenon in the orthodox state like rajasthan it suggests that girls are taking keen interest in education