Dhiren Ch. Doley
10th
Mile, Lower Gumba Hatta, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
Abstract
Education helps a man to become aware, makes socially useful
and provides opportunity for living a life with choice of ideas and options of
living. The level of literacy and quality of education determine the character
and morale of a nation hence sets the nation’s status in the international
perspective higher. Therefore nationally and internationally, education has
been gaining rising interest and importance.The UN Sustainable Development Goals,
2030 where India is a signatory also incorporates a goal of inclusive and equitable quality
education. India is not an exception in making utmost efforts to provide
the best to its citizens for education. As a result of its tireless endeavour,
especially in the post RTE Act era, India has made enormous progress in terms
of enrolment, retention and regularity in attendance of children. But this
performance so far is not enough. India, in the seventies of its independence,
which has huge investment in the Human Resource Development, should have
attained cent percent literacy rate and high quality of education in terms of
functional literacy. And the quality level of learning of the children viz.
reading, comprehension and arithmetic is very pathetic. Children pass
examination without learning the texts of their age. Poverty, ignorance,
gender, caste, remoteness, governance system etc. are some of the main factors
of lack of quality in the primary education in India. This paper discusses the major challenges of
quality education at primary level and suggests enablers.
Key Words: Quality Education, Sustainable
Development Goals, Political Will, Civil Societies
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