Education in India:-Surely needs a Revamping
Education...in a worthy sense is a synonym of ‘DEVELOPMENT’...If the people of a country are not educated then to think about the overall development of the country will just be a waste because no country could develop without a base of educated people..Someone rightly remarked...”Educated people are the most precious belongings of a country” .In short education is an essential criterion for development.
India was also once recognized as a global center of education. Not only the Indian scholars but scholars of foreign nations also felt proud in studying in world renowned universities such as Nalanda, Kashi and other such universities...and the sheer ambience of this environment produced geniuses like Aryabhatta, Ramanujan,Raman and a host of others..but today the whole educational system of India is ramshackle. Our educational system is so unplanned that it has completely failed in providing good education. This unplanned educational system is affecting the whole process of development. Mere having a nuclear deal won’t take our country to the heights of prosperity or development...What the Indians still need is a good educational system...Only this will make our country more prosperous and developed.
Let us begin with the beginning of one’s education that is the ‘primary education’. In India this is the most neglected part...but actually it is the most important part...Its only in the primary stages where a student inculcates the spirit of learning, understanding...neglecting this results in making education a boring thing for them hence they divert from it and abandon the path of development.
Actually in India primary education is in very sordid state...Whether cities or villages, each primary school run by the government have the same story to tell…The buildings of this school are in wretched conditions...there are hardly any tables-benches and even if there are some they are in such a old-tattered condition that they are hardly used.In the name of students one can find few half naked,dirty clothed student running here and there without any one to care about them.There are teacher’s assigned to these schools but these teachers are so much involved in their household works that they could hardly take out any time from their busy schedule for the schools..but yes when the month end’s and the time comes for collecting pay-packets these same teacher’s who had no time to come to school can be found waiting eagerly for their payment…What a shame..but alas it’s true…Though not in villages but in cities many private nursery and primary schools are there and the quality of education provided by them is also good but the hefty sums, donations which they ask to be paid as fees and others are out of reach even of the middle class person..hence only the lucky few avail quality education.
Same is the case with middle, secondary and senior secondary stages...lack of dedicated teachers,good buildings,amenities,funds are all affecting the quality of education.Due to this good education at an affordable cost has become a distant dream.Many of the meritorious student lose their way in between due to such problems.Private schools here also steal the show where highly qualified teachers impart education in a calm and serene ambience,Facilities of International quality is provided,extra curricular activities are done,good labs are provided but all these are provided at high costs making it out of reach from the common masses.
Education at University level show no big difference. Colleges and seats are few but the admission seekers are many. Even at the topmost level of education, there is scarcity of lecturers and professors. There is lack of vocational courses,Teacher:Student ratio is quite high, Labs are not up to the mark and many other problems plague government run universities. Some of the good colleges who are bestowed with good facilities keep their cut-off percentage so high that these again are out of reach for the general students .Apart from all these educational problems…there is a lot of red –tapism, political interference, reservation which makes pursuing higher education at affordable costs a dream for a common Indian. In most of the government run engineering, medical colleges on can find relatives of some big shot politician studying...they are their not due to their merit but due to political power of their relative..Students who come under the reservation scanner make the condition worse as they get preference over meritorious students even if they lack knowledge. Talented students are left with no measures as they can’t go for private medical or engineering college’s as the fees of these college’s are exorbitant hence these students opt for some run-of-the-mill courses. Actually this is not a loss of the student but in fact this is the loss of country because only due to red-tapism, bureaucracy, reservation the country loses a worthy doctor or engineer who could have been a great asset for the country.
There are various students who score less marks and hence fail to get admitted to normal schools or colleges…the government should setup more universities such as IGNOU to facilitate their study and allow them to run the rave with their counterparts.
India in fact requires a revamping of its educational policy…Not only in course contents but in implementation of policy...Opening more colleges,Providing more options of vocational courses ,accountability must be added to teaching,eay accessibility to schools by students as well as teachers should be ensured, teachers who are already employed in chool and colleges should be banned from teaching in coaching institutes ,strict rules must be made for teachers,lecturers,professors and others to make sure that they teach and not just refrain from it..Proper funds must be provided, conditions of schools, colleges need to be ameliorated...bureaucracy, red tapism must be curbed and it must be ensured that reservation reaches to the needy.There are various other things which must be planned out and implemented efficiently.
In the last I would like to say that India needs a complete makeover of its educational policy. Right from nursery to PhD and higher.Governent should make a big plan and implement it stepwise so that the educational policy caters to all the needs of a student. Right from moral development to employment. Instead of forming commission and making reports, the government should work at grass root level in order to make it a educational policy a success…Infact what I wish is that education should be made our constitutional right…Right to Education.
What’s your say??
India was also once recognized as a global center of education. Not only the Indian scholars but scholars of foreign nations also felt proud in studying in world renowned universities such as Nalanda, Kashi and other such universities...and the sheer ambience of this environment produced geniuses like Aryabhatta, Ramanujan,Raman and a host of others..but today the whole educational system of India is ramshackle. Our educational system is so unplanned that it has completely failed in providing good education. This unplanned educational system is affecting the whole process of development. Mere having a nuclear deal won’t take our country to the heights of prosperity or development...What the Indians still need is a good educational system...Only this will make our country more prosperous and developed.
Let us begin with the beginning of one’s education that is the ‘primary education’. In India this is the most neglected part...but actually it is the most important part...Its only in the primary stages where a student inculcates the spirit of learning, understanding...neglecting this results in making education a boring thing for them hence they divert from it and abandon the path of development.
Actually in India primary education is in very sordid state...Whether cities or villages, each primary school run by the government have the same story to tell…The buildings of this school are in wretched conditions...there are hardly any tables-benches and even if there are some they are in such a old-tattered condition that they are hardly used.In the name of students one can find few half naked,dirty clothed student running here and there without any one to care about them.There are teacher’s assigned to these schools but these teachers are so much involved in their household works that they could hardly take out any time from their busy schedule for the schools..but yes when the month end’s and the time comes for collecting pay-packets these same teacher’s who had no time to come to school can be found waiting eagerly for their payment…What a shame..but alas it’s true…Though not in villages but in cities many private nursery and primary schools are there and the quality of education provided by them is also good but the hefty sums, donations which they ask to be paid as fees and others are out of reach even of the middle class person..hence only the lucky few avail quality education.
Same is the case with middle, secondary and senior secondary stages...lack of dedicated teachers,good buildings,amenities,funds are all affecting the quality of education.Due to this good education at an affordable cost has become a distant dream.Many of the meritorious student lose their way in between due to such problems.Private schools here also steal the show where highly qualified teachers impart education in a calm and serene ambience,Facilities of International quality is provided,extra curricular activities are done,good labs are provided but all these are provided at high costs making it out of reach from the common masses.
Education at University level show no big difference. Colleges and seats are few but the admission seekers are many. Even at the topmost level of education, there is scarcity of lecturers and professors. There is lack of vocational courses,Teacher:Student ratio is quite high, Labs are not up to the mark and many other problems plague government run universities. Some of the good colleges who are bestowed with good facilities keep their cut-off percentage so high that these again are out of reach for the general students .Apart from all these educational problems…there is a lot of red –tapism, political interference, reservation which makes pursuing higher education at affordable costs a dream for a common Indian. In most of the government run engineering, medical colleges on can find relatives of some big shot politician studying...they are their not due to their merit but due to political power of their relative..Students who come under the reservation scanner make the condition worse as they get preference over meritorious students even if they lack knowledge. Talented students are left with no measures as they can’t go for private medical or engineering college’s as the fees of these college’s are exorbitant hence these students opt for some run-of-the-mill courses. Actually this is not a loss of the student but in fact this is the loss of country because only due to red-tapism, bureaucracy, reservation the country loses a worthy doctor or engineer who could have been a great asset for the country.
There are various students who score less marks and hence fail to get admitted to normal schools or colleges…the government should setup more universities such as IGNOU to facilitate their study and allow them to run the rave with their counterparts.
India in fact requires a revamping of its educational policy…Not only in course contents but in implementation of policy...Opening more colleges,Providing more options of vocational courses ,accountability must be added to teaching,eay accessibility to schools by students as well as teachers should be ensured, teachers who are already employed in chool and colleges should be banned from teaching in coaching institutes ,strict rules must be made for teachers,lecturers,professors and others to make sure that they teach and not just refrain from it..Proper funds must be provided, conditions of schools, colleges need to be ameliorated...bureaucracy, red tapism must be curbed and it must be ensured that reservation reaches to the needy.There are various other things which must be planned out and implemented efficiently.
In the last I would like to say that India needs a complete makeover of its educational policy. Right from nursery to PhD and higher.Governent should make a big plan and implement it stepwise so that the educational policy caters to all the needs of a student. Right from moral development to employment. Instead of forming commission and making reports, the government should work at grass root level in order to make it a educational policy a success…Infact what I wish is that education should be made our constitutional right…Right to Education.
What’s your say??
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