EDUCATION TOWARDS BETTER INDIA: A REALITY CHECK

Abstract

Education is one of the most important tools for the formation of human capital in a country, which is one of the fundamentals of the development of social infrastructure. Provision of better educational facilities is not only the economic duty of the government of a country rather it is its moral duty as well. The Government of India is also trying to develop this key factor of social infrastructure of our country, but still the level of education in India is not up to international standards. This research paper is an attempt in this direction to find out various causes of low development in the field of education in India. This research paper is based on secondary data collected through various government and non-government agencies as well as from various web sites. Three parameters of backwardness of educational standards are set up i.e. Government, Society and the Students themselves. The research concludes that low government expenditure on education; stress and anxiety created by the society especially by the parents and the lack of power of understanding among the students were the main causes behind low standards of education in India. Therefore, it is necessary that all these three components involve in the process of education should cooperate with themselves in order to make educational standards up to the mark.