Poor state of affairs

Did we even know that two days ago a very grim report on India’s state of education was put forth by 2016 Annual Status of Education. And the underlying fact is very scary - a significant section of students in Classes 1 to 8 cannot read a Class 2 book. Majority of the students in rural India attend Government schools and this once again drives home the poor and shoddy quality of education provided there. Merely running statistics and gloating over it, saying that so many schools were opened make no sense when this is what it produces.

The study shows - 19% of Class 3 government school children can read a Class 2 book. Of this, only 7% of Class 3 students in government schools in Uttar Pradesh can read a Class 2 text, 38% in Kerala and 45% in Himachal Pradesh. In Maharashtra, it is 41% in government schools against 38% in private schools, and in Tamil Nadu, 20% and 13.5%, respectively.

This survey is done every year and the findings over the past 10 years have been no different. So the Govt does not take the findings of these surveys seriously then what’s the point of them? In the developed countries, govt run schools are very good but why things never ever improve here? There is no paucity in funding but simply no will to make changes.