Poor Quality

India adopted a National Policy for Children in , declaring children to be the nation’s
 asset. The population of children in a country comprise its human resources of the
 future and the social, economic and cultural growth development of any society or community
 hinges upon the quality of its human resources. Three and a half decades after the adoption
of the National Policy for Children, Finance Minister grandly allocated the
 seemingly huge amount of  exclusively to the education sector in his Annual



Budget last t, according to the , India has the lowest public
expenditure on education per student in the world. The prevalent differences within Indian
states in per student expenditure in the year  painted a dismal picture. The highest
being  the State that spearheaded the Universal literacy movement in the country spends
consequences and could lead to social upheaval. Schools in backward rural and tribal areas
are the most neglected, and the standard of teaching deplorable. Even in other areas, schools
to which children of the underprivileged have access are run by the State or local authorities.
 By and large, these have a poor record of student; as the figures go from bad to worse with the lowest being
spending a measly  child per year. So can it be said that funding is the issue with
government schools? Clearly not. It is one of utilization of these funds.

There has, unfortunately come into existence, a big class and caste divide coupled with a
rural-urban divide in education, in terms of facilities and quality which has serious social
. The most glaring of the problems with
government run schools is that of infrastructure. Poorly maintained buildings, dilapidated
classrooms, ill-equipped libraries and laboratories, lack of sanitation facilities and even
 drinking water are issues that the students grapple with everyday. Availability of qualified
 teachers and the student-teacher ratio is another tale to tell. The curriculum and teaching