Perhaps this sentence is enough to explain the importance of education
. An economy like India cannot even think of its growth without understanding and realizing the importance of education. The Government realized also. As per the data there are 42 central universities, 275 state universities, 130 deemed universities and almost 90 private universities. It seems that India seems to have arrived. With Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and RTE (Right to education) and making mandatory primary education, the county shows a brighter side which would attract anyone.
But scratch the surface a little there is a lot more hidden. Why are the Indian students complaining so much? Is this only because of the faulty reservation system? Is this because privatization of education and mushrooming of number of colleges fail to provide quality? Every year a state University (formerly called UPTU) gives more than 200000 degrees of MBA and an equivalent number of engineers. Consider the quality of engineer who measures the speed of light in Volts? Yes this is the truth!
A survey was conducted and it revealed shocking findings. In the center most state of India Madhya Pradesh, not any of the headmasters in the schools surveyed had the minimum prescribed qualification. In Andhra Pradesh, a school was managed by a mechanic and his wife. The survey also broke the allegory that education was free of charge in government schools - in the northern States, the learning pointed out, the annual expenditure in sending a child to a government school was Rs.366; in Maharashtra it was Rs.385; in Rajasthan Rs.810; and in Karnataka Rs1, 200.
The most important reasons alluded for the poor state of government schools is lack of funds. The government total expenditure for generating satisfactory infrastructure in schools continue to remain dolefully inadequate at 3 per cent of GDP, a far cry from the 6 per cent as recommended by the Kothari Commission as early as 1964.
Some critical facts about Indian education sector:
The fundamental infrastructure is missing: 24% schools do not have a building in India
About 60% of children between age group of 7-12 fail to read a simple Para
48% student drop out before completing their elementary education
The private sector market size ( class I to XII) around 22k-26k crores
Private tuition and coaching have done the remaining. Number of complaints against coaching could be seen who took money in advance and did not give the desired output. Parents have filled the consumer forums complaining about tyrant fee structure.
This is the right time that some concrete steps must be taken for change in the educator sector!