India  : Education expenditures
3.1% of GDP (2006)

Census 2011 : Literates

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
Total: 10 years
Male: 11 years
Female: 10 years (2007)

Literacy
Definition : age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 61%
Male: 73.4%
Female: 47.8% (2001 census)

Education : Key concerns
Linking education to employment / livelihood creation, rather than holistic approach.
Quality of education : Both at the student level and the teacher level
High drop out rate : Specially in rural areas, and for girl / underprivileged children
Lack of school facilities & trained teachers for the specially challenged : Urban / rural level
Lack on inclusion of borderline disabled in regular schools
Infrastructure in schools, specially rural schools
Lack of examinations till 7th or 8th standard
Lack of interest in education at parent level, specially amongst rural farmer community
Quality of food given to underprivileged children in residential schools
Education of children of migrant workers
Engaging teachers in government work like election / census ...
Inability to sensitise the captive audience (students) on key national challenges
Inability to develop the captive audience (students) into better human beings, specially for those who lack parental guidance.
Education of children in Naxal dominated regions
Education of children in Sensitive regions like Jammu & Kashmir
Education of children from minorities and tribal community
Higher teacher to student ratio

How big is the education canvas of India
28 States, 7 Union territories, 655 districts (January 2012)
22 Official languages

Government infrastructure (Year 2006-07)
784852 Primary basic schools
305584 secondary schools
169568 High / Higher secondary / Intermediate / Predegree junior colleges
11458 Degre colleges (general education)
7024 Degree colleges (professional education)
368 Universities / Deemed Universities / Institutes of National Importance

Call to draft new Bill on education
The All India Forum For Right to Education (AIF-RTE), consisting of educationists, parents and other like-minded people, has demanded the repeal of the Right To Education (RTE) Act and has asked that public hearings be held at the district levels to draft a new bill on the principles of common neighbourhood school system that draws in children, including the disabled. Dr S.S. Rajagopalan, an eminent academician and a member of the AIF-RTE, said that the government has to ensure that every child is admitted to the nearest school.
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Education : Keynote address by Prof Shantha Sinha
Prof. Sinha mentioned that access to school is not synonymous with quality of education. She pointed out that the problem today is learning outcomes, the quality of what children are learning, not numbers and names in attendance registers. The education system is challenged by demand. It is also a system that needs cleansing. Discrimination, gender prejudice, the unequal status of rich and poor, need to give way for the democratization of schools. Change is needed to enable universal access to quality education.

In India, getting urban children out of work and into school
1 February 2012: UNICEF correspondent Patricia Lone reports on a programme that helps Indian child labourers return to school.

Lives : 2 Miles Apart // School
For a long time, it has been assumed that those in rural areas have worse access to education but children living in poor urban neighborhoods are among the least likely to attend school. Maansi and Manisha live in the same neighborhood of Mumbai but only one of them goes to school. Find out why in '2 Lives:2 Miles Apart'.

2 Lives:2 Miles Apart is a series of films that highlights crucial issues impacting children in an urbanized world. "Children in Urban Areas" is the title of this year's "The State of the World's Children" report, released by UNICEF.

WHO WE ARE.mp4
UNICEF has been working in India since 1949. The largest UN organisation in the country is fully committed to working with the Government of India to ensure that each child born in this vast and complex country gets the best start in life, thrives and develops to his or her full potential.

Education

Dileep Ranjekar

Dr Madhav Chavan

Dr Narendra Jadhav

Dr Shanta Sinha

Group Portals
Districtwise education
Donation options
Volunteering opportunities

Government
Education Ministry - India