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Primary education is base of personal-social and cultural ethos along with economic booms. Who can deny this fact? Even though the emerging scenario of P-Education is not inspiring. Cocking a snook at the tall claims of the Centre and UP Government regarding promotion of education, the ramshackle condition of building of Basic Shiksha Parishad schools which sans the basic facilities speak volumes for the double standard residing in power.
Primary education is so casually taken in India that the present scenario at gross root level is a matter of worry. In discourse this is observed that the proper budget is not allocated, if it was done to reality, scene would be different. But counter question does arise, if that much amount had been used in true sprit, the face would have been promising. Whom to blame, is not solution but what and how to do is need of hour.
A fourth of Uttar Pradesh’s 200 million people are aged between 5 to 14 years India’s largest child population but the state has the fewest teachers per student, the poorest transition rate from primary to upper primary school and amongst the lowest learning outcomes in the country As Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populated state, we look at the state of education, a subject that should be on top of the agenda for any Establishment.
As the available reports observe, literacy rates and learning outcomes are some of the lowest in the BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) states. By 2020, India will have the world’s largest working-age population of 869 million but an analysis of these four states with 43.6% of India’s school-age population between the age of 5 to 14 revealed that India is unprepared to educate and train its young population.
Uttar Pradesh’s literacy rate of 69.72% is the eighth-lowest in India, according to Census2011. Literacy rate rose 13.45 percentage points in UP over a decade from 2001, but there are wide regional disparities: In the Northeastern district of Shrawasti, the literacy rate is 49%, while in the best performing district, Ghaziabad (in North-Western Uttar Pradesh), it is 85%, according to this report.
Deoraj Singh
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