Saturday 13 April 2013

A reprehensible silence.


A new hope was allocated to the people around three years ago on April 1, 2010. A whopping auspicious belief was made accommodated to the people of India that now Education is going to soar here and every child would be imparted education. This hope was equipped to the people by the Right to Education Act. This was a historic day for the people of India as from this day the right to education will be accorded the same legal status as the right to life as provided by Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. Every child in the age group of 6-14 years will be provided 8 years of elementary education in an age appropriate classroom in the vicinity of his/her neighborhood.

 

But the truth is sometimes very bitter and being candidly I can assure you that the truth is not bitter here as it is very very much bitter here. And the authentic fact is that overall RTE (Right to Education) has failed its exam very badly and shamefully and till now has been a farce.

Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) blatantly and vehemently screamed that the learning outcomes in the government schools are unacceptably low. Education which is the most important and crucial thing in a nation’s development has been snubbed by the government and the administration has been evasive on this issue. The reticent government just allocated 3.5% of GDP (Gross Development Product) contrary to Kothari Commission headed by D.S. Kothari asked the government to roll out 6% of the GDP for a steady and stable growth in the education sector.

The RTE act was made to influence and mould the worsening education system in India which has been stung upon by thousands of odds. RTE, although promised free education for children upto 14 years of age, has not been able to tackle to problems of the Education system. Even recently Supreme Court of India taking into cognizance the deplorable as well as scandalous state of government schools in India cued the state governments to rectify the system according to the RTE act. Eighteen (18) states have filed affidavit that they are all following the RTE act strictly but still the truth is appalling that the children still don’t get good education and there is a black truth behind such things. The schemes which have been commenced by the Government of India for the welfare of the nations’ students have not been implemented properly and have been assimilated by corrupt and dirty officials and the money rolled out for people has been obliterated for satisfying the needs of the sleazes and the scoundrels.

Situation in the country’s government schools have been worse and the worse thing is Hindi-medium teaching. When English is the official language of India so why are you teaching the children Hindi in the schools? Why not provide the students of government schools with good teachers who can help them cope with English as well as with English Medium syllabus of those of the Private and public schools? Why the government is not doing anything like this? Why not make the children of India equal? The government should definitely do something like this but the reluctance to do anything at the grass root level is really reprehensible.

We all should think and ponder over it.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharati

 

 

 

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