India Divided: The Information & Technology Boom v. The Area's Poverty

DEVANNAPET, INDIA - NOVEMBER 11: Third grade students, in a rural Telegu language class held under a tamarind tree, try to answer a question as a teacher corrects their answers November 11, 2003 in Devannapet, Andhra Pradesh, India. The Devannapet village school suffers from a shortage of classroom space. Four of ten grades are taught outdoors without chairs or desks. Teachers rotate every hour instructing 400 students in a first to tenth grade curriculum offering three compulsory languages ( Telegu, Hindi and English), math, science and social studies (economics, civics, geography and history). The state government offers teacher's salary support of $10 USD per year. The rural school is responsible for charging each pupil separate fees for instruction and pupils must bring their own chalk boards. Many students have no shoes. If the Devannapet school had space, it would receive computer terminals from the state but as of now, there are none for access. The rural public school is three hours north of Hyderabad, a state of the art Information and Technology center built by multi-national companies. The benefits of the IT boom do not filter down to this Telanagana District region where a leftist militant movement, People's War Group, is active. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg)
DEVANNAPET, INDIA - NOVEMBER 11: Third grade students, in a rural Telegu language class held under a tamarind tree, try to answer a question as a teacher corrects their answers November 11, 2003 in Devannapet, Andhra Pradesh, India. The Devannapet village school suffers from a shortage of classroom space. Four of ten grades are taught outdoors without chairs or desks. Teachers rotate every hour instructing 400 students in a first to tenth grade curriculum offering three compulsory languages ( Telegu, Hindi and English), math, science and social studies (economics, civics, geography and history). The state government offers teacher's salary support of $10 USD per year. The rural school is responsible for charging each pupil separate fees for instruction and pupils must bring their own chalk boards. Many students have no shoes. If the Devannapet school had space, it would receive computer terminals from the state but as of now, there are none for access. The rural public school is three hours north of Hyderabad, a state of the art Information and Technology center built by multi-national companies. The benefits of the IT boom do not filter down to this Telanagana District region where a leftist militant movement, People's War Group, is active. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg)
India Divided: The Information & Technology Boom v. The Area's Poverty
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