Educating India Poem by Charnjit Patialvi

India is marching ahead!
Many thousand crores gone down the lane,
And many more crores may go the same,
Not a leader dared to tame,
It has fulfilled million aspirations,
All for the sake of education.
India is marching ahead!
Black boards, tables and chairs are all there,
Sans students in classes, but here and there,
With broken windows and leaking roofs,
Are they the real proofs?
Peeping through the broken doors,
some still sit on dirty floors,
Sans teachers, sans light,
All we have the children fight,
Tearing the pages of the books,
Defaced and ugly looks,
Without regular teachers a school is run,
Contracted are seen instead,
The appointed ones have already fled,
Their salaries unpaid for months togather,
Work piling up due to Bad Weather,
School are place of joy,
Sometimes become a political toy,
Rallies, meetings and feasting arranged,
Parents and teachers have estranged,
Never seen any progress ahead,
Funds siphoned instead.
On paper its all fine, one day India will shine,
Like torn sacks can't hold grains,
Without a will can't hold gain.