Education
Need to reinforce government school policies to ensure education for the poor
Nationalist and public speakers express their opinions on the ill-funding of governmental education institutions across India.
India is a nation of thinkers, dreamers and doers; a nation which endures all the pain and suffering to reach its final destination. And this will of fire to suffer through the storm and emerge victorious, flows in the veins of each and every citizen. So why not give them the chance to express their talents? To show that they are the best at what they do?
And thus, the question arises, what is the first step? And the answer is Education.
Assembled for the Jawaab Do Andolan, many respected speakers expressed their thoughts on the governmental policies pertaining to the education of the poor; primarily, government schools. In an effort to analyse and report the past actions on the claims of the government to education the poorer sections of society, many unfortunate truths unfolded.
With coaching institutes on the rise, Radhakant Saxena, retired chief of the city jails, exclaimed his concern about the shift in focus from primary and secondary educational institutes to financial tyrants. In his speech, he talked about educational institutes have been transformed from shrines of knowledge to producers of certificates for jobs.
Nimala, from the Kotda village in Udaipur, expressed her belief that government schools were being neglected by the government itself in order to retain a stagnant literacy late which in turn instilled never ending poverty.
The issue of the ill-methods of maintaining these governmental institutions by the government was put up by Lakhmaram Bhil, who conveyed this idea by dictating the condition of a government school in his area which consisted of about 350 students with just 4 teachers to educate them within a dearth of the basic requirements of a school.
A shocking analysis by Nasir Ahemed revealed that 85% of the budget allocated to the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was exhausted in only salaries, leaving insignificant funds for the actual cause. Along with this, the report by Aruna Roy of MKKSS suggested that there was an abrupt decline in the government schools of Rajasthan, which was the state with the third largest number of children in labour, from 80,000 to a depressing 65,000 in the year 2014.
All this data suggests a single idea, that the promises made by the government to properly educate the poor of the nation have not been executed to the satisfaction of the nation. And without proper fulfilment of the promises by the government, the nation cannot progress in ways that is necessary to combat the rising globalisation.
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