India has successfully improved school enrolment in recent decades yet failed to deliver actual learning. The ASER Survey by NGO Pratham (2020) spotlights large learning deficits in students’ foundational learning.…
“Through a promise of holistic education at the school level, Section 12(1)(c) could provide for a way to uplift the underprivileged sections of society." Ananya Dixit in her article explores the inadequacies of the policy which has the potential to transform the lives of millions of children in India.
India has one of the largest education systems in the world with over 1.5 million schools and over 250 million enrolments. Despite high enrolment the quality of education suffers from certain fundamental drawbacks - the most significant of them being the imbalance in learning levels. This article explores the need for quality Early Child Care and Education (ECCE) programmes in India, and the challenges to the current policy on public pre-school education in India