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The present education system in India chiefly comprises of primary education, secondary education, senior secondary education and higher education.
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India's improved education system is sometimes cited as one of the main contributors to the economic development of India. At the same time, In India the quality of elementary education has also been a major concern.
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Primary education in India is the foundation on which the development of every citizen and the nation as a whole built on. In recent past, India has made a huge progress in terms of increasing primary education enrolment, regular attendance rate, retention, and expanding literacy to approximately two thirds of the population.
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The compulsory education to all children up to the age fourteen is constitutional commitment in India. Recently, The Parliament of India has passed Right to Education Act through which education has become fundamental right of all children of age group 6-14 years. The country is yet to achieve the mysterious goal of Universalisation of Elementary education (UEE), which means 100 percent enrolment and retention of children with schooling facilities in all habitations. It is to fill this gap that the Government has launched the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in 2001, which is one of the largest such programmes in the world. The primary education vertical of India Development Gateway is an effort to empower the teachers and children by providing ample resource materials to archive the goal of Universalization of Elementary Education in India.
Primary Education in India
The Indian government lays emphasis to primary education up to the age of fourteen years, which is referred as Elementary Education in India. The Indian government has also banned child labour in order to ensure that the children do not enter insecure working conditions. However, both free education and the ban on child labor are difficult to enforce due to social conditions and economic disparity. 80% of all recognized schools at the Elementary Stage are supported to make it the largest provider of education in the Country. However, due to lack of political will and shortage of resources, this system suffers from massive gaps including high pupil teacher ratios, shortage of infrastructure and poor level of teacher training. Education has also been made free for children for six to 14 years of age or up to class VIII under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009.
There have been many efforts to enhance quality made by the government. The District Primary Education Programme was launched in 1994 with an aim to universalize primary education in India by vitalizing and reforming the existing primary education system. 85% of the DPEP was funded by the central government and the remaining 15 percent was funded by the states. The District Primary Education Programme has opened 160000 new schools including 84000 alternative education schools delivering alternative education to approximately 3.5 million children, which was also supported by UNICEF and other international programmes. Since the last three years in the states, this primary education scheme has also shown a high Gross Enrollment Ratio of 93-95%. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is one of the largest educations, which is the current scheme for universalization of Education for All.
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