A Kashmiri student attends open-air classes. | Tauseef Mustafa/AFP
In Nirmala Sitharaman’s marquee 2021-’22 budget, the allocation for education was 6.1% less than the allocation made in 2020-’21. The ministry of education got an allocation of Rs 93,224 crores. Of the total, the school education and literacy sector was allotted the majority of funds, with Rs 54873.66 crore. The remaining Rs 38,350.65 crore was allotted to the higher education sector.
Gross Enrolment Ratio at the elementary level (Classes I-VIII) has been consistently high, at around 97%. This indicates that almost every Indian child is going to school. Despite this, students don’t seem to be learning anything in school at all. Only 44.2% of all students in government schools in Class V in India are able to read a Class II text. The situation is worse for numeracy: only 22.7% of all students in government schools in Class V are able to do division. India has been in the midst of a learni
where a third of the population can t read or write though every child has a legal right to education literacy is especially low among girls from poorer segments of society. saudia khan has already been in class the entire day but she s still eager for more. hardly anything can stop this thirteen year old from pursuing her love of learning making that. is a very important for every everyone saw it up to gone to school even if i m tired if i have then if the what if i am just six and that the most accomplished the first time she went to school was seven years ago in a village just outside india s capital new delhi she got there thanks to literacy india an organization that helps underprivileged children who would otherwise not be in school. the organization focuses particularly on young girls.