Education system of India, can only fulfill the dream of developed India by making Indian demography a dividend rather than being a disaster as going by current trend of poor skills of Indian youths. But this education system (government funded institutions) is suffering from poor teaching skills, absence of teachers in government funded schools and poor attendance of students. And often, one leads to another; absence of teachers demotivates students from attending schools and absence of students has been an excuse as given by teachers.
Well, these are the obvious reasons, but beyond there are few other infrastructural and sociological reasons. And I realized this on one of my trip to a girls high school in Jharkhand. As I entered a class-room of official strength of 100 but there were meagre 30 girls in the classroom. I enquired into the reason and beyond the usual reasons of low skill level of teachers and their absence; the reasons were unavailability of transportation fare to schools for poor girls (who comprise a major chunk of students), unavailability of time to girl child to go to school after finishing household activities.
These institutions are the only hope for poor tribal and rural students. And the institutions are mainly located in cities and towns, and access to such institutions require distance to be covered by bus, jeep , train or even auto-rickshaws. But these require the cost to bear for transportation, and for those daily wage earners it was very difficult to give 20INR as transportation cost to their wards to attend school.
Girls get the opportunity to visit the (sacred) school only when their parents get the wage.
While for girls from cities and towns, the sociological factors are inhibiting factors in accessing schools. In morning, they are first entitled to feed their brothers and fathers as well as cleaning the house and then go to schools. As a result, many a days they don't find time to attend the school.
And when I enquire about the so called usual reasons; the response are quite different. Their expectations are not that huge from teachers but the problem is regarding the time, infrastructure and money being provided by their families/government to reach and attend schools.
Well, these are the obvious reasons, but beyond there are few other infrastructural and sociological reasons. And I realized this on one of my trip to a girls high school in Jharkhand. As I entered a class-room of official strength of 100 but there were meagre 30 girls in the classroom. I enquired into the reason and beyond the usual reasons of low skill level of teachers and their absence; the reasons were unavailability of transportation fare to schools for poor girls (who comprise a major chunk of students), unavailability of time to girl child to go to school after finishing household activities.
These institutions are the only hope for poor tribal and rural students. And the institutions are mainly located in cities and towns, and access to such institutions require distance to be covered by bus, jeep , train or even auto-rickshaws. But these require the cost to bear for transportation, and for those daily wage earners it was very difficult to give 20INR as transportation cost to their wards to attend school.
Girls get the opportunity to visit the (sacred) school only when their parents get the wage.
While for girls from cities and towns, the sociological factors are inhibiting factors in accessing schools. In morning, they are first entitled to feed their brothers and fathers as well as cleaning the house and then go to schools. As a result, many a days they don't find time to attend the school.
And when I enquire about the so called usual reasons; the response are quite different. Their expectations are not that huge from teachers but the problem is regarding the time, infrastructure and money being provided by their families/government to reach and attend schools.
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