Change-Makers

Change-Makers

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  Team Details: 1. VivekGunawat 2. Krishan Kumar 3. Deeksha Arora 4. Supriya Tiwari
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   Lack ofAwareness about the Importance of Education  Problems at School Level 1. Faulty Administration 2. Infrastructure : Blackboards, Benches, Building, Water & Sanitation facility. 3. Paper Work for Teachers 4. Lack of Well Trained Teachers 5. No Committee at schools  Social Evils 1. The Indian Caste System 2. Gender Inequality 3. Orthodox Thinking  Faulty Policy of Government  Corruption
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   Lack ofAwareness about the Importance of Education 1. Seeking Support from Local/State NGO’s to promote primary education at rural & Urban level 2. Collaborating with the Gram Panchayat to spared the benefits of education through drama/Nukkad Natak(Street Play)  Faulty Government Policy 1. Making a committee comprising of senior scholars, members of NGOs, Education Boards (at state & Center) to form a better policy. 2. Supervision & implementation of policy through Civil Servants at the district level. 3. Revision & improvisation of policy on annual / biannual intervals  Corruption 1. A Problem that has been into the roots on the Indian Administration. It is very important to curb corruption so that all the proposed solution can be smoothly implemented. 2. Teaching and making school going children practice about ethics and integrity so that they not only be corrupt-free but also help removing corruption from its ground roots.
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   Problems atSchool Level 1. Faulty Administration: Principal and higher authorities fail to use the funds / misuse them for their own profit. The best way to solve this to hire people with good background at school level administrator. Example: Ex – Defence personnel, retired government officials or School teachers/principles. 2. Infrastructure: The government has funds allocated for each of its schools. The only part is the proper utilisation of funds, and using it for purchasing & building all necessities for the school. 3. Paper Work for Teachers: Teachers of the government school are allotted lots of paper work due to which they are not able to devote in teaching. The simple solution for this could be openings in the school as interns, which could be even college students in the locality. 4. Lack of Well Trained Teachers: The recruitment of the teachers needs to be reformed as not only looking for the minimum qualification, but stress should be given on the ‘teaching’ capability of the individual. 5. Modifying promotion system in current government schools to include only experienced teachers to have higher posts. 6. No Committee at schools: Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act) mandated the formation of School Management Committees (SMC) in every government-funded schools. But still there are numerous schools which don’t follow the same. Identification of those schools through NGO & government survey and forming SMCs as soon as possible in the benefit of the schools.
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   Social Evils 1.The Indian Caste System – At grass root level, people still practice the caste system, the small children are the worst victim. A non – caste practice made at school level. Anybody (including) teachers practicing should be severely punished. 2. Gender Inequality: The mind-set of the people in rural India are of the opinion that girls should not be send to school. The reason being that one day they have to get married and look after the family. In contrast to this, there are also who want to send their daughters to school, but the lack of sanitation in school are not present. Awareness about the girl education in indeed needed. Educating a girl is making one’s entire family in better hands. Indra Nooyi, Sunita Williams & Kalpana Chawla won’t have been able to achieve success if their parents did not send them to school
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   The governmentof India has enough funds which is allocated through RTE in each 5 year plan. But the soul problem is with the administration that the school authorities are not utilising this resources at all.  Other sources of funding would be either through fund raising from CSR of companies or NGO support.  Example – Azim Premji Foundation has collaborated with state board of education in Rajasthan, Uttrakhand, Karnataka, Chattisgarh focusing on pre-school and upto class 12.
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   Education willinculcate the awareness in individual and hence helping in the growth & development of the nation.  Awareness in society will improve literacy rate of the nation.  Parents become active member of SMCs and will participation and discussion on the use of school funds.  It is very difficult to remove the ‘Caste System’ or ‘Gender Discrimination’ from the society. But education will ignite a thinking in the children not to practice it. And with coming generations will can try eradicate it too.  After removed / curbing corruption at its roots, we will have a corrupt – free nation. This indeed will help to build nation stronger.
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   Poverty -literacy rates decline with poverty and rise with per capita incomes. It is clear that until and uncles government and other organizations come forward in training and employing poor people, it will be difficult to remove poverty.  Social evils and illogical thinking: Convincing the parents and elder members of the society in Rural India about encouraging education of girls and practice of caste is a major challenge. [Even today 70% of people live in Rural India].  Political Problem: An uneducated person can be easily influenced to make him in favour of one political party/candidate. And hence this practice leads to poor government formation.  Funding: If any third party wants to enter to improve the education system of the country, the major factor which is faced is fund allocation.
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   References:  Educationin India - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_India  Primary Education in India : (The Earth Institute at Columbia University) Quality and Coverage Issues http://www.earth.columbia.edu/cgsdOLD/documents/bajpai_primaryedu cation_000.pdf  The Situation of Elementary Education in India: http://ssa.nic.in/quality- docs/RTE%20SSA%20Final%20Report.pdf  Primary Education: Vision, Objectives, Problems and Recommendations - http://kireetjoshiarchives.com/education/national-agenda- education/primary-education.php  Challenges to Primary Education - http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/TLLWxKjaJG790cs99bIv2L/Challenges- to-primary-education.html