by dandala nirmal kumar reddy
Published on: Jun 8, 2004
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Type: Opinions

In this constantly altering world, the meaning of education has been modified and manipulated accordingly. For some it is provocative while for others a lucrative provenance. Some are really desperate for it, while some feel it perforating. But caught in this flim-flam, we have completely disregarded the raison d’etre of education. The present educational system failed in developing an amplified India due to its desultoriness. Analyzing the educational system in India, one can unambiguously quote that it is in an immense need for revamping. Is it due to the lack of human resources? Being an Indian it would be a misnomer to think so! India, with its exuberant human resources, still has a long marathon to run to surmount the pinnacle of illiteracy. Still the conductivity of youth in the amelioration of the present situation is dubious. So “is our educational system in jeopardy?”

Going into the details of this contentious topic, the reasons for the prevailing conditions are many. Secondary education is the key time when, a student is commensurate with the hot iron in a blacksmith’s cleave. It is also clearly evident that a high investment is required for the elimination of rubbles in the foundation. But it is commiserative that we spend less than 4% of our gross income on promoting education with less than 3% going to elementary level. On an annual scale, 9.92lakh of students are supposed to enter the schools but it is a flummoxing fact that only 2.27lakh of students are getting recruited in the educational registers. Then where are the rest of the students? We can see them once we unmask ourselves and dare to see the world of reality. They are around us, in our houses, mechanic shops; factories everywhere working for daily wages. The reasons for their existing situation are innumerable and entangled. Even if they are enrolled in the schools, their lives ultimately reach the same destination. Such is the rotundity existing in the phlegmatic lives of these ragamuffins.

Now coming to the professional studies, it is the fulcrum on which the futurity of any nation rests upon. But these too are not exceptional for loopholes, protruding and challenging their existence. The irony is that most of the professional colleges are finding it highly impracticable to deliver respectable individuals with compassion. In fact their attempt of fostering value-oriented education proved a debacle. The assiduous attempt of improving the quality of value-oriented education has been rocked by the increased number of professional institutions and sunk by the antediluvian policies implemented by some of the professional institutions. The parrying catechizes haunting the think tanks of educational connoisseurs is that, “Why are a bulk of individuals, fantabulous as a facsimile of bookish things, least creditable on crafty rostrums?”

Consistent watering of the education ‘plant’ sans its roots turned problematic today. In this arduous situation, dealing and planning the system circumspectly might prove laudable. Stress should be on reducing the dropouts in schools to the maximum extent. The professional courses should be rated high and people opting them got to deserve it and ought to be strong conceptually. In addition to that, professional colleges are to be limited in their number to maintain the standard. Education oriented in moulding an individual, impervious of any vicissitudes, is the need of the hour. It is the responsibility of the institutions to audit their outputs and their congeniality. But still the attainability of the above goals is probationary.

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