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Human Development (129th); Global countries education system better,
Hunger (102nd); World Inequality by:-
(147th) and Gender Gap (108th). All
these indexes reflect that overall level Providing Vocational
of Indian society is not up to the Education and Training
mark. (VET) and skill-based
Furthermore, on perimeters of learning:
This is a type of technical training
national development, we will identify
that unemployment rate in India is given to the students which help them
develop additional skills during
27.1% (Economic Times, 20th May
2020) and people living below the finding jobs after getting educated.
poverty line are 22% of total Although the website of CBSE tells
us that 40 vocational courses are
population (S. T. Committee report
2012). India is also lacking behind in running in India, even AICTE claims
that VET is an integral part of Indian
PPP (purchasing power) and average
basic income of citizens. curriculum as per NCF 2005 but
being a teacher, I should claim that
these things are only on paper and
According to many experts and
graduates of IIMs and government present in a handful of schools in
India. Courses like stenography and
researchers, the root cause which is
hampering India’s educational computer application, accountancy
development from years is its failure and auditing, marketing with
salesmanship will surely help students
in rural areas. India is more rural and
less urban. According to government find jobs after school and colleges.
data of 2018, India’s 65.97% of the Special provisions for these courses
population is living in rural should be made in all government
areas, whereas, 34% of people are schools. This will also develop various
types of skills in students which will
residing in urban India.
help them in choosing their career
path.
Although, I know that there is a
proper channel of hierarchy present in
the educational system (centre to the Being more practical and local
state to the region to block to than theoretical:
panchayat level). But, if anyone wants Leading newspapers of our country
to find a solution to the educational say that by the method of rote
problem in India, he should look learning, Indian educational system is
towards management and producing ‘zombies’ in schools.
implementation limitations, Policies like ABL (Activity Based
particularly at school level (that too in Learning), learning by doing, MLL
government schools). I have merged (Minimum Level of Learning) and
all of my points into 8 particular and experimentation based learning are
important ones. We can make our only on the papers. These techniques,
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