The Need of Time, To Overhaul the Basic Structure of Education in India

Abstract

Education is the backbone of modern and civil societies. This is not only a gaze of development of societies but a means of development and modernity. Every stage of education is important, but primary and higher education is that standard of any country which indicates the ways of prosperity and dignity of societies. But, after attainment of the freedom, India could not achieve the important goal of complete schooling of our children. As on attainment of freedom time, the total literacy in India was merely 14% and today it is 74%, it means only 1% in one valuable year we aided into educational growth. Easily we can say that this growth in education in 65 years was less than 1% in 1 year. It is a snail-pace growth in education in a developing country like India. A lot of NGOs, with an aim at educating children, also clubbed with the educational programmes launched by the Government of India, but the result is not inspirational. The Government of India launched a Flagship programme, education for all as Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. It also failed in the sense of aimed goal. I think on the front of the education, the problems lie in the approach adopted to determine education policy by the Government of India. This is a basic reason that is responsible for the poor level and differentiation in education. Higher education system in our country is also based on inequality. The teacher of the central universities gets more salary than that of state universities, but the work done by both is the same. The concept of two-type policy for education is harming the society broadly, but the responsible persons for the policy-making bodies never think to equalise the education system for all. This paper tries to throw light on the grey areas of the education system and recommends some points to delete inequalities in our educational system.