A PATH WALKING DOWN THE EDGE

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A PATH WALKING DOWN TO THE EDGE


The theory on inertia needs to gain momentum…



With an unrestricted and unsteady growing population, the government bears all the burden, that every individual is supposed to bear. When a cry, which was actually 121.43 crore echoes was heard, the government took the responsibility, and introduced The Right To Education Act(2009). There was criticism all over the country, and has not stopped ever since. And the reasons to it, are as unpredicatable as the outcomes.

RTE started off with a goal of the student and teacher ratio being 30:1. However, due to a sudden outburst of students, and lack of teachers, the ratio is now ambigious. So, the need of the hour is to conduct many teacher enrolment programmes, and to encourage this profession. The teacher ratio needs to uplift, and for that,  as we all believe, it is the fault of the government.  People blame the government saying that there are no funds, but, subsidies are eager enough to get out there and help lakhs of children. However, are we? But, then arises a new problem. There is meant to be ‘reservation’ for 25% of the class for economically backward students, and will be compensated by the government. However, comparitively elite and prestigious instituitions do not consider these students ‘worthy’ to their economically,politically and socially well-off students. There lies a wall between economically backward students and education, which is as sturdy as some never-changeable mindsets. So, we have to change their minds, and not the resrvations percentages.

Then rises a miserable state of affairs in India. Child trafficking and child labour are thriving more than the number of engineering seats offered in the country. RTE demands free and compulsory education for children of age 6-14. Wait, are  we not forgetting those innocnet children, who are not 6 years yet, but have to still burn their hands and the midnight oil in earning a measly amount of 200 rupees per month? Why even would their parents go in for educating them, when they can rather earn? Being the educated and aware crowd, it is our duty to make perils such as child labour and trafficking vanish from our society. In the words of Vineet Joshi, “many parents are trying to force their kids to school”. Is that true? Then, why even did they implement the act?

Girls are not in the best of hands when asked to go to school. Lack of washrooms, especially for girls who are above twelve years, is unimaginable! There are street urchins and ‘roadside romeos’ strolling, looking at every girl with the most wrong eye anyone can have. If a six month baby faces these consequences, how safe will parents of teenage girls be to send their ‘torch-bearers’ to school? Is this what makes them been called “paraaya dhan”? To change this, laws have to be forcefully fed into some people’s mouth, so that girls are no more afraid to get out, and be given education? Who can help them? Are the only things we can do are make posters, and movies? Well, to make this idelaistic approach relistic, we do not have a choice, but spread awareness to one of the largest populations in the world, so that we can educated one of the largest uneducated crowd in the world. 

Looking at all this, we have other comparitively minor issues, like lack of infrastructure, laboratories and so on. But, this sounds minimal in front of the problems which are pouring down, particularly thundering on the society. Let’s not just sit, and draft more articles, to try and fight the biggest partition of India. 

Indian Express

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