NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION
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ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
Government
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National education
budget (2011–2012)
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Budget
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Established
Compulsory Education |
April 1, 2010
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Education plays an integral part in the
overall development of the personality of a child. The government has come up
with unique steps to make primary education compulsory for all.
Elementary
education implies eight years of compulsory schooling that begins from the age
of six both to boys and girls.
The
government ensures to make elementary education free and compulsory for all.
Elementary
Education is a must to all the children of India. It becomes obligatory to the
govt. to provide this. The availability of infrastructure, finance, man power
to implement etc., are highly needed.
The idealistic thinking of the govt. is highly appreciable
and commendable. But in practical certain problems arise.
For
optimum management control, the government has also joined hands with the
School Management Committees, Tribal Autonomous Councils, Mother Teacher Associations
as well as the Village and Urban Slum Level Education Committees.
The
SSA aims at improving the ratio of teaches to students, emphasize more on
teachers training, provide learning materials for teachers and textbooks for children
as well as make every possible effort for their academic support.
In addition, the government has also
introduced compulsory elementary education, exclusively for girls. For
instance, the Kasturba Gandhi Shiksha Yojana aims to come up with residential
schools in districts (particularly the ones with low literacy rate amongst
females) for girls.
THE
NGOs :-
The private education market in India is
merely 5% although in terms of value is estimated to be worth $40 billion in
2008 and will increase to $68–70 billion by 2012.
The Govt. of India introduced LPG which means Liberalisation,
Privatisation and Globalisation. Under this economic reform PPP [public private
partnership] is introduced.
India is such a large country; one single central Govt. can
not meet all the needs of the country to nook and corner.
Secondly the economic
status and social range of all the states are not same.
Geographical needs, sentiments, cultures [hundreds of], languages
[1652], castes [6745], are all different.
Taking changing trends in technology to all the corners of
the country, govt. alone cannot do.
Globalisation changed the face of the Earth. There are many
factors that have made this world flat.
1.
Internet
2.
Satellite communication
3.
Availing services of any MNC.
4.
Exchange of technology know-how
5.
Out sourcing
6.
Off shoring
7.
Creativity
8.
Software
9.
Supply chain
10.
Mobile communication etc.,
In this fast changing world, people thinking that the govt.
should do everything, is meaningless.
There is high need and mandatory to the govt. to share some
of its burdens to NGOs.
By doing this the govt.
is allowing all NGOs to be part and parcel of duties. Major domains should be
in the hands of the Govt. such as
1.
Defense
2.
Currency
3.
Foreign Policy
4.
Railways
5.
Dams and water supply
6.
Electricity
7.
Welfare activities etc.
This Herculean task is already given to NGOs and shared by
the govt. There are fully govt.
organizations, semi-government organizations, fully private oraganisations but
supervised by the govt.
Eg., JNTU
There are private medical colleges, technological colleges,
intermediate colleges, degree colleges etc. functioning well by the NGOs. There are more than 150 private Universities
educating Indians.
NGOs have responsibility and also “of mine” attitude which
make them function faultlessly well. Because of their efforts India has become
the largest manufacturer of intellectuals to supple to the world.
What the govt. cannot
do, is being done by the NGOs.
1.
Discipline
2.
Running English Medium
schools/colleges/Universities etc.,
3.
Developing all sorts of skills
4.
Science expos
5.
Inter schools/ colleges
tournaments
6.
Extracurricular activities
7.
Developing attitude and aptitude
8.
Computer education right from the
elementary level
9.
Publication of books to meet the
need
10.
Seminars by experts/celebrities
11.
Educational tours
After
the inception of DPEP (District Primary Education Programme) in 1994, the
government came up with the SSA or "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan" in
2001 so as to bring in an improvement in the elementary education system.
Lowering the poverty ratio, promoting
female literacy, and emphasizing on rural education will help SSP fulfill their
desired goal.
The govt. employees cannot do all these things committedly.
The
govt. is trying its level best to attract the students to schools by providing
many incentives;
1.
Mid day meals
2.
Free dresses
3.
Free books
4.
Scholarships
5.
Transport provision etc.,
There
are many practical problems:
A teacher highly qualified in say Mathematics M. Sc., B. Ed.,
if employed in remote rural primary school where he has to teach only additions
and subtractions will either quit the job or put long leave and look for some
other alternate.
Reaching to the remotest parts where vehicle provisions of
either govt. or private are not available.
Newly appointed teachers who receive consolidated pay may not
be able to spend on transportation.
Parents in remote villages, tandas, gudems, etc.,
send children to graze animals or some other work where they receive some money.
The govt. has many advantages over NGOs but why it fails? It
is not failing but is made to fail.
1.
Irregularity of teachers to go to remote
villages
2.
Non-resident teachers
3.
Teachers have no interaction with
the parents of the rural India
4.
Teachers going for meeting all
sorts of govt. works like elections, pulse polio etc.
5.
Personal works of the teachers
6.
No proper planning to develop
system to educate exploding population
7.
1 km one school system
8.
Corruption
9.
Non commitment of teachers
10.
No plan to stop school dropouts etc.,
The NGOs establish schools in the remotest parts of India and
run them successfully.
Their staff work
committedly. In NGO schools,
1.
Regularity of teachers
2.
Generally resident or nearby
village graduates or post graduates,
3.
Good parent and students’
relations
4.
No extra duties as in govt.
organizations
5.
Non-importance to personal works
6.
Always expanding school by
providing new sections as per need
7.
Every village one or two schools
8.
No corruption
9.
Commitment because the teacher
may lose job
10.
To avoid dropouts teachers meet
parents and solve their problems
So the govt. should encourage the NGOs to establish more and
more schools in the remotest parts of India and run them smoothly.
The Govt. should give the NGOs incentives.
The Govt. should encourage this way of providing employment
to the millions of educated Indians by the NGOs wherever the graduates or
postgraduates are there.
The
govt.’s plan of Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Globalisation will be
successful.
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