DC Edit | Emergency In Indian Schools

The findings of the student survey throughout the country have revealed a disturbing reality: almost half of India’s school students lack basic skills in literacy, arithmetic and situational awareness. Class III students (45 percent to correctly adjust the numbers up to 99), class IX students who cannot distinguish between live and inanimate features (66 percent) reveal a systemic crisis in learning results that can remove the economic and developmental ambitions of India and tear the social texture as the nation ages.

This is not just an educational difficulty. It is a national emergency. If 69 percent of class IX students do not understand basic number systems and percentages, how can they expect them to be employable and contribute to the development of the country? If two -thirds of class IX students do not know the difference between live and inanimate features, the demographic dividend in which the government boasted to today may turn into an demographic disaster.

Learning gaps in rural areas are larger than average numbers. Similarly, small private schools usually have relatively poorly equipped teachers and weak infrastructure.

While embracing the world’s artificial intelligence and machine learning, people should be strong on the basis for achieving a good job. However, India’s future youth threatens to carve the foundations of our future workforce with such prominent learning gaps.

For this reason, the government should address educational reforms equally with infrastructure or defense and take measures to ensure that the crisis in the learning gap is handled. School education is a national issue of national and should not be politicized for the benefit of either the ruling party or the opposition parties – on the contrary, everything will be evil for India’s future generations and endanger the rise of India to the superpower status.