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ht To Education : One Step Ahead In The Journey of Education
Our country became independent on 15 Umesh Kumar Rana
August 1947 and at that time the great
challenge was the reconstruction of our country. India is the largest democracy and has one of the
All the policies were focused on revamping our best constitutions in the world. Our constitution
education system and since then a lot of effort provides the sovereign special rights (human
is taken. However our education system has rights) to its citizens. The right to education
still not come up to the mark particularly in the being one of them provides the right of children
rural areas the infrastructure is not good. In the to free and compulsory education at elementary
country like India, where the population is huge level up to 6-14 years of age and also ensures the
and unemployment is the biggest problem the education of all categories of children and even
education can play a vital role in eradicating girls’ education. Right to education is the act
these problems and challenges. of the parliament of India acted on 4th August
2009 which describes the modalities of the
Today India is known as the country of youth as importance of free and compulsory education
37% of total population of India is young. But to all sections of the children under Act 21(A)
still our country is not counted as developed of the Indian constitution. India has become
country and the main reason for it is the failure one of the 135 countries to make education a
of our education system. fundamental right of every child. The act came
into force 1 April 2010. But today in our country
Today there are more than 170 universities, there are some remote areas where the people are
5,400 affiliated colleges, 59,000 secondary and not aware of RTE, so this is another big challenge
senior secondary school and 1,30,000 middle to bring them into mainstream of education. The
school and 5,20,000 primary schools in our participation of all sections of society makes it
country. There are 3.5 million teachers, 130 successful.
million students and annually Rs. 15,000 Crore
is spent on education which is next only to Seven to eight years ago, we often used to
that on defense. But still our country is facing read in newspaper about the admission of
problems like illiteracy, poverty unemployment, children in LKG and UKG in private schools.
inequality, large social and economic gap, They conducted interview of the parents as
lack of social feelings and co-operation, social well as child for the enrolment. So the children
discrimination etc. Causes for these problems of socially and economically backward class
seems to lie in the imbalances present in found it difficult in getting admission in private
education like imbalance between formal schools. But today in private school, 25% seat
and non-formal education, gulf between the is reserved for these categories of children.
education of the classes and masses, regional No interview is conducted for the parents in
disparity and disparity in women education. the school during the admission as RTE made
provision for all categories of children to get
If democracy has to survive and succeed both, education within same roof.
it must be based on the widest provision of
educational facilities for all its members and Gurucharan Das an eminent educationist has
not for only few. noted that 54% of urban children attend private
schools and this rate is growing by 3% per year.
This trend has grown as the people of the our
Limitations live only in our minds but with imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
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Our country became independent on 15 Umesh Kumar Rana
August 1947 and at that time the great
challenge was the reconstruction of our country. India is the largest democracy and has one of the
All the policies were focused on revamping our best constitutions in the world. Our constitution
education system and since then a lot of effort provides the sovereign special rights (human
is taken. However our education system has rights) to its citizens. The right to education
still not come up to the mark particularly in the being one of them provides the right of children
rural areas the infrastructure is not good. In the to free and compulsory education at elementary
country like India, where the population is huge level up to 6-14 years of age and also ensures the
and unemployment is the biggest problem the education of all categories of children and even
education can play a vital role in eradicating girls’ education. Right to education is the act
these problems and challenges. of the parliament of India acted on 4th August
2009 which describes the modalities of the
Today India is known as the country of youth as importance of free and compulsory education
37% of total population of India is young. But to all sections of the children under Act 21(A)
still our country is not counted as developed of the Indian constitution. India has become
country and the main reason for it is the failure one of the 135 countries to make education a
of our education system. fundamental right of every child. The act came
into force 1 April 2010. But today in our country
Today there are more than 170 universities, there are some remote areas where the people are
5,400 affiliated colleges, 59,000 secondary and not aware of RTE, so this is another big challenge
senior secondary school and 1,30,000 middle to bring them into mainstream of education. The
school and 5,20,000 primary schools in our participation of all sections of society makes it
country. There are 3.5 million teachers, 130 successful.
million students and annually Rs. 15,000 Crore
is spent on education which is next only to Seven to eight years ago, we often used to
that on defense. But still our country is facing read in newspaper about the admission of
problems like illiteracy, poverty unemployment, children in LKG and UKG in private schools.
inequality, large social and economic gap, They conducted interview of the parents as
lack of social feelings and co-operation, social well as child for the enrolment. So the children
discrimination etc. Causes for these problems of socially and economically backward class
seems to lie in the imbalances present in found it difficult in getting admission in private
education like imbalance between formal schools. But today in private school, 25% seat
and non-formal education, gulf between the is reserved for these categories of children.
education of the classes and masses, regional No interview is conducted for the parents in
disparity and disparity in women education. the school during the admission as RTE made
provision for all categories of children to get
If democracy has to survive and succeed both, education within same roof.
it must be based on the widest provision of
educational facilities for all its members and Gurucharan Das an eminent educationist has
not for only few. noted that 54% of urban children attend private
schools and this rate is growing by 3% per year.
This trend has grown as the people of the our
Limitations live only in our minds but with imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
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