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Education
Education is central to the development of human potential. It is an important human development indicator. Despite becoming a fundamental right through legislation in 2002, it is beyond reach for a large number of children especially for the socially disadvantaged sections.
India is slated to be a young nation since demographically the young population is increasing in proportion, so are the opportunities for employment for the educated. While in the post independence era progress has been made in making schools available within reasonable reach of most populace, quality in education is still a major area that warrants attention. This is a major challenge that comes in way of the disadvantaged groups getting equal opportunities to seek employment. The fall out is disillusionment, stress and desperation that often leads them to wayward life.
Education in India: Some Glimpses
- The government has launched ambitious programmes like the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan and the Mid Day Meal scheme to improve the enrolment and retention of children in schools. Despite these initiatives, India is at risk of not achieving the millennium development goal of “universalisation of education by 2015”. 35 million children aged 6-14 are still out of school.
- Special attention needs to be given to girls. Out of 100 children who drop out of school, 66 are girls.
- Government schools are the leading providers of education to children. About three fourth of the children enrolled in schools receive education through the government schools. However, a lot of improvement is needed to improve in terms of quality in these schools.
- Gap exists between available skills and requirements of the labour market.
- Only 7 percent population gets the opportunity to avail of higher education. Knowledge commission estimates a need for 1500 universities in the country.
What KPMG can do
- Strategic planning for the institutions/organizations keen to lend their support to improve the state of education in the country
- Impact assessment of the ongoing programmes
- Technical inputs for public private partnership to fill up the gap areas.
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