Suggesting policy measures to improve the quality of education in India

Abstract

Education is often related to economic development and human development. India ranks 135 in the education index ranking. As of 2011, despite 93% enrolment into primary schools, half of the rural children of age 10 could not read at a basic level and over 60% could not do division based problems. 50% of the students dropped out of school by age 14. This situation is widely prevalent in government schools which accounts for 80% of all recognized schools at elementary level. Statistics tells us that over 73% of primary government school teachers send their children to private schools. This proves that there is a basic flaw in the quality of education provided by the public system and mere increase in public spending might not help in achieving the goal of educating the country.