Education is a very important aspect in every individual’s life. It shapes the future of the person and enables them to have a chance at better quality of life.
While education being easily accessible to people, there are many who are still deprived of it.
India’s education system is marred by gross inequalities in access, completion and quality. Class, linguistic background, gender, ethnicity and place of birth all have impact on the educational experience children have in India. These, in turn, contribute to inequalities in knowledge in India’s society.
Talking about India, there is a huge gap between those who can afford education and those who cannot. India has a large number of population yet the literacy levels are not up to the mark.
The potential that India has to be Super Power someday can only be achieved if education is available to all people across social and economic strata’s
In the Case of State Of Tamil Nadu & Ors vs K Shyam Sunder & Ors on 9 August, 2011
The Court held that “right of a child should not confines only to free and compulsory education, but should be enhanced to have quality education without any discrimination on the basis of their economic, social and cultural background.
The Constitutions 86th amendment Act of 2002 provides that it is compulsory for every child in India between the ages of six and fourteen to be provided with free education.
Article 21-A and the RTE Act came into effect on 1 April 2010. The title of the RTE Act incorporates the words ‘free and compulsory’. ‘Free education’ means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her parents to a school which is not supported by the appropriate Government, shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing elementary education.
Along with Article 21, Articles 28,29,30, 45,46,337,350B and 351 of the Indian Constitution also speak about educational rights of the citizens.
‘Compulsory education’ casts an obligation on the appropriate Government and local authorities to provide and ensure admission, attendance and completion of elementary education by all children in the 6-14 age group.
With this, India has moved forward to a rights-based framework that casts a legal obligation on the Central and State Governments to implement this fundamental child right as enshrined in the Article 21A of the Constitution, in accordance with the provisions of the RTE Act.
India’s education system is widely discriminative between urban and rural areas. The urban population have better access and quality to education while the rural struggle to even attain primary level education.
The Governments have been taking considerable efforts in bridging the gap between urban and rural educational problems but there is still a lot that needs to done.
Inaccesablity and lack of opportunities should not be the reason why bright and capable minds should miss out on education and the benefits that can be reaped in the future.
India has come a long way forward with regard to its literacy and the contributions it is making in the world but one cannot dismiss the fact that the Indian Educational has its flaws.
Poor grading system, less attention to practical knowledge, mugging up culture, lack of innovation and creativity in subjects, substandard teaching aids, lack of effort in training teachers, bias between public and private schools are few of the problems that prevails in the current education system in India.
In the Case of Unni Krishnan, J.P. & Ors. v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. Cited as: 1993 AIR 217, the Court held that, “Right to education means citizen has the right to call up the state to provide the facilities of education to them in according to the financial capacity”
These issues have tried to be addressed by the current government by introducing the New Education Policy 2020, which brings about several major reforms in education in India. … Among the major reforms, the 10+2 structure in the schooling system has been replaced by a 5+3+3+4 structure. It will include 12 years of schooling and three years of Anganwadi and pre-schooling. The New Education Policy also has provisions to facilitate vocational training, digital learning and more emphasis on practical training.
References
https://www.oxfamindia.org/blog/how-can-indias-education-system-escape-vicious-cycle-inequality-and-discrimination
https://dsel.education.gov.in/rte
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