Let’s think about foreseeing the future of our country. It reminds us to evaluate and focus on our current economic graph which moves proportionately with our educational horizons. Subsequently, some surveys disqualified our education system for not showing appropriate coverage around the country. There can be several reasons behind its improper distribution. It could either be a lack of awareness or could also be a malfunction of the management committee. Lack of funding could also be a big reason which is abrupting educational growth. Anyway, the noticeable difference can be observed in the ratio of the educated and savage crowd. This alerts us that the country’s future can never be left in the hands of less than half of its population. Therefore in the backdrop of agitations of some students to sort out this major issue in various institutions such as JNU, Jadavpur, Uttarakhand Ayurveda colleges etc, it became pertinent to flag why free public education is a must for countries like India, which still could not entertain students from vulnerable segments of the society from going in for higher education. It would be more helpful to study the government’s own periodic labour force survey (PLFS). According to the PLFS July 2017 to June 2018, 53% of rural males, 43% of females, 66% of urban males and 65% of urban females aged between 15 to 29 years have achieved secondary to a higher level of education.
If we go through the economic data in our country, the estimated average goes to ₹ 10,000 per month for the ordinary people of India, which is insufficient. A common man earning around 10, 000 per month, could not be comfortable with his budget to attain higher education. Moreover, a median Indian family earning less than ₹ 5000 a month, which is precisely at 50% of income-wise distribution, could never even think of education to avail an excellent future career. Thus, it becomes the responsibility of the state to take considerable measures. Although the Indian state has even traditionally put on such effort in the year 2009 ensuring free and compulsory education for all students up to 14 years of age, still it gave a passerby look to the upper primary level, which could hardly make a difference. We could not now give a blind eye to the serious issues about the quality of education. Indeed, there’s always room for further improvement. There are many private educational institutions, but they cannot touch the wallets of every Indian. A majority of Indians, therefore, seek a free education system in India. Crediting the upward mobility of the poor section of India is not just a matter of thought for the new educational projects but has wider ramifications too. It’s again a matter which requires a second thought that 15 years ago in the year 2004, 6% of GDP was handed to education whereas in the year 2021 it’s reduced to 3%. The question of course arises here, WHY???
Even some schools of states like Punjab, Haryana and Karnataka are also planning to provide free education up to the PhD level for girls, but this should be done for all the students or research scholars across states.
We know that private educational institutions are more or less reserved for those who can afford them, all the more the public higher education institutions are also self-financed nowadays and are again beyond the reach for the students of lower sections.
Conclusively, if today we don’t plan for remedies for all the leisurely moving issues our country wouldn’t be able to view the luster of diamonds and would be supposed to choose our future from less than half the population, which would be disgustingly unfair.
So, it would be a sincere suggestion to work before it becomes a reason for efficiency loss in the country and for civilisation as a whole.
Work is Worship 