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(Priyanka Mysore)
 * Quality of the Education Received by the Average Indian Student**

//In a populous country like India where even with education life is difficult, there can be little hope without it. The people too have realized this and are turning to education in a big way. Poor as well as middle-income people, rural as well as urban dwellers, are willing to do anything to send their children to school, particularly to English-medium ones. But what is the quality of education that the students are receiving?//

This problem exists mainly in the rural areas. There have been several programs for the improvement of the quality of education in rural areas. For example, the District Primary Education Program (DPEP), which was passed in 1993, emphasized on decentralized planning and management, improved teaching and learning materials, and school effectiveness. There have been many more programs like the DPEP which have been passed over the years. Although they have helped improve the standard of education and have made it relatively easy for children in the rural areas to attain education, there are still children who are uneducated and those who actually go to school do not receive the best of education.

Another reason as to why the quality of education in rural India or any average government school in urban India is the availability and the efficiency of teachers. Almost all the qualified teachers opt to teach in schools that are above average. Hence the availability of good quality teachers is very low in these schools. Moreover, there are up to 60 students in a class and only one teacher assigned per classroom. And because of this, each student does not get as much attention as they require and hence will not benefit or attain any form of quality education. If the syllabus of a rural or a government school in urban cities is compared to the syllabus of a student studying under the CBSE system, the difference in the quality of education is clearly visible. Recently, the government decided to drop the Right to Education Bill which had been proposed in 2006. Without this bill, there will be no improvement in the quality of education because there is no standard set for the basic education of all students going to school run by the government.

All these factors have led to the poor quality of education in India. If a mark change needs to be seen in the education system, then the government needs to take appropriate measures to improve today’s state of the system.