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India's universal education wins praise
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Friday, June 17, 2005
WASHINGTON: India's 'quiet revolution' towards achieving universal elementary education and meeting the Millennium Development Target of 2015 has been commended in an International Monetary Fund (IMF) publication.
Far less visible than India's elite educational institutions that have been producing first-rate scientists, engineers and managers who helped India's information technology sector take off during the 1990s is the more recent 'quiet revolution' in India's elementary education, said said Kin Bing Wu, Venita Kaul and Deepa Sankar, writing in 'Finance and Development.'
Recalling a program launched in 2001 after a constitutional amendment to make quality elementary education a fundamental right of every child, the authors said if successful, it will equip an entire generation in India with skills to improve productivity and reduce the burden of disease, high birth rates, hunger and poverty.
It will also change societal attitudes towards gender, caste, tribe and disability, they wrote.
What India has accomplished, they say, is no small feat, especially given that its population grew from about 840 million to nearly one billion between 1991 and 2001, with the number of children aged 6 to 14 rising by 35 million to 205 million.
Over roughly the same period, the gross enrolment ratio in primary education-Grades 1-5-rose from 82 percent to 95 percent, and in upper primary education-grades 6-8--from 54 percent to 61 percent, they note. A fundamental right of every child, the authors said if successful, it will equip an entire generation in India with skills to improve productivity and reduce the burden of disease, high birth rates, hunger and poverty.
It will also change societal attitudes towards gender, caste, tribe and disability, they wrote.
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Friday, June 17, 2005
WASHINGTON: India's 'quiet revolution' towards achieving universal elementary education and meeting the Millennium Development Target of 2015 has been commended in an International Monetary Fund (IMF) publication.
Far less visible than India's elite educational institutions that have been producing first-rate scientists, engineers and managers who helped India's information technology sector take off during the 1990s is the more recent 'quiet revolution' in India's elementary education, said said Kin Bing Wu, Venita Kaul and Deepa Sankar, writing in 'Finance and Development.'
Recalling a program launched in 2001 after a constitutional amendment to make quality elementary education a fundamental right of every child, the authors said if successful, it will equip an entire generation in India with skills to improve productivity and reduce the burden of disease, high birth rates, hunger and poverty.
It will also change societal attitudes towards gender, caste, tribe and disability, they wrote.
What India has accomplished, they say, is no small feat, especially given that its population grew from about 840 million to nearly one billion between 1991 and 2001, with the number of children aged 6 to 14 rising by 35 million to 205 million.
Over roughly the same period, the gross enrolment ratio in primary education-Grades 1-5-rose from 82 percent to 95 percent, and in upper primary education-grades 6-8--from 54 percent to 61 percent, they note. A fundamental right of every child, the authors said if successful, it will equip an entire generation in India with skills to improve productivity and reduce the burden of disease, high birth rates, hunger and poverty.
It will also change societal attitudes towards gender, caste, tribe and disability, they wrote.
agencies "
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