Focus On Education Works

Muslim Murasu, May 2013

Serious debates are being conducted on education sector in India. Silicon valley in America is at the heart of IT developments. Many Indians have been working there and have earned wealth and reputation. They have risen to important positions even in advanced space researches.
But still, not a single university from India has been listed among top two hundred universities in the world. Prime Minister and President also have joined the elite circle in lamenting this.
International quality, national quality, developed nation, developing nation, backward community, these notions have their roots in arrogance. They serve in permeating untouchability in the modern world. It is a ploy to create inferiority complex among competing candidates.
Sixty five years earlier, India had thirty universities and 695 colleges. Now India has 695 universities and 33000 colleges. According to guidelines given by Right to Education commission, 90 percent of schools are unfit. Justice J.S. Verma report says that, of the thirteen lakh schools, eleven lakh schools are of poor quality. Seventy lakh teachers have to be trained in the next five years.
Thirty lakh teachers have to be recruited in two years. Eighty fiver percent of teacher training institutes are in private hands. Educationist Dr. Vinod Raina sadly informs us.
Ninety thousand teachers graduate every year in Maharashtra alone. Minister of Education in the state, Rajendra Darda, is clear that there are only ten thousand vacancies. He warns us that tuition fee has been exorbitantly raised in one lakh schools.
Rahman Khan laments that ‘minority’ is defined in a casual, narrow-minded and doomed-to-fail way by the states. Report by central education commission has brought to light the scams in education sector.
One educated family should help one uneducated family. This will improve the situation. Additional government fund will foster corruption and apathy.