Seventy- two years after Independence, our nation has no doubt emerged from backwardness in the social sector, but there are always discussions and debates about what has not been achieved or the big gaps to be filled across many areas. One such area is the education sector that has an important bearing on the economic growth and development of the nation.
In 2016 we, at Centre for Civil Society, argued that India needs an education policy that will keep children in school and ensure consistent and high learning outcomes. To do this, we recommended that the government of the day applying new public management strategies to education, away from ‘mission mode’ to systemic transformation - building capacity, encouraging competition for quality improvement, insisting on innovative and effective delivery, monitoring accountability, and targeting resources to individual students.
नई दिल्ली। सरकार शिक्षा के लिए फंड स्कूल व संस्थाओं को न देकर सीधे छात्रों को दे। छात्रों को यह फंड एजुकेशन वाउचर, डायरेक्ट बैंक ट्रांसफर, एजुकेशन क्रेडिट एकाउंट या स्कॉलरशिप के रूप में दिए जा सकते हैं। इससे छात्रों को स्कूल च्वाइस का हक मिलेगा कि यदि किसी स्कूल की पढ़ाई पसंद नहीं आ रही है तो माता-पिता बच्चे का स्कूल भी बदल सकेंगे।
Budget private schools, which serve children from low-income families, face a threat of closure under the right to education (RTE) act 2010.
Bringing the element of choice into education will make schools accountable to parents, and will lead to a more efficient schooling system, where poor performing schools are weeded out due to lack of patronage.
Meet Dr Parth Shah! He is an economist by profession who taught at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (US) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) between 1992 and 1998. In 1997, Dr Shah founded India's top think tank called Centre for Civil Society (CCS).
Right to Education legislation offers perverse incentives; education vouchers empowers parents instead of school inspectors The state regulations on education service delivery may cause more harm than good by denying access to millions of low income families.
