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In this episode, we speak to Protiva Kundu about the state of Indian public education and the National Education Policy, 2020.
Government school teachers are often blamed for the poor state of public education in India. Some scholars and commentators claim that they are incompetent, absent from classrooms, and overpaid, particularly when compared to teachers in the private sector. We’ll investigate if this is true.
Protiva Kundu joins us on Research Radio to discuss the state of India’s public education system by focusing on teachers. Dr Kundu is with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability where she leads research on the financing of education. We’ll discuss her
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The country spent only 3.1% of its GDP on education in 2019-’20 against the 6% recommended by every national policy since 1968. Representational image. | PTI
India needs to spend 6% of its gross domestic product on education, every national education policy since 1968
has said. In 2019-’20, 52 years since that recommendation, India spent only 3.1% of its GDP on education, the 2019-’20
One of the results of this underspending on public education is that over 10 lakh government schools, where over half (
52%) of India’s nearly 24.8 crore children study, have remained poorly funded. This is among the reasons why learning outcomes in India have been so poor, say experts.