Ep. 77: Education in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Is There a Right to Education Act to Guarantee 100% Literacy?
Government had in 2009 passed this act called Right to Education Act, wherein their idea was that they will have 100% literacy rate. Now, since the quality is so bad and if you look into data, I have actually also brought this report in case we need to dig data. Students are migrating their abandoning government schools and coming to private schools. That's one reason for quality but whatever students they have, they are not able to teach and they have set the goal of 100% literacy.
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