Deteriorated Quality of Indian Education - Some more factors

In continuation to my previous blog, please find some more factors contributing towards the deterioration in the Quality of Education in India. 

Underutilized Educational cess: As per the tax system in India, every citizen is contributing towards education through the Education Cess. But when it comes to distribution of the collected fund, only limited institutions (Esp. Government) get the privilege to avail it for whatever the proposal is. For other institutions, there are a number of limitation, which make them impossible to avail the benefits. And it was published that, the underutilized funds are transferred to MHRD. Instead it may be distributed to the deserving Institutions to improve the Research in India.

Contribution in Research: Though we have a heavy population, our contribution in World research is too low. This is because of the poverty of most of the population, forces them to go to job after their +2 or at the maximum a UG degree. Even those who register for the research need to spend huge amount to the University and the so called supervisors. The UGC also look at the paper and not the knowledge acquired. It is reported that, only Indian research papers have maximum plagiarism. And most of the research reports are not written but bought. The governments are interested in distributing free bees to attract the voters and make the society useless but never show interest in encouraging the research.

Re-framing of Syllabus: The syllabus set by the University is revised only after three or four years, whereas the technology changes every day. There is no mechanism to include the latest technologies and they are given as Add-on courses by very few institutions. If not for all the streams, the university may introduce contemporary topics to those courses which see frequent changes in the industry. A refresher course may be provided to the faculty at the beginning of every year to keep them updated.

Misguidance of parents: Accumulating wealth has become the primary concerns for families. Both the parents go for job leaving the kids under somebody’s surveillance leaves lot of spaces for the kids to go wrong. Also, to avoid the disturbances from the kids they are diverted in different directions leading to unwanted learning in behaviour. This lead to loss of moral values and children are engaged in unwanted practices in school, unethical behaviour and uninterested in learning that they ought to do.

Prosperity of Politicians: India has a very strong and long history of Politics. The only field with no qualification requirement in India is Politics. But unfortunately, the growth of the country is based on the decisions taken by these politicians. In India, the powers and authority are well misused to make wealth and to make the known circle wealthy. In very little incidents it is used for the common public and serves the purpose. In all other countries, the people with relevant qualifications to its highest order become the head of that field and so they could evidently see growth in that sector. But in India, once they become the head of the sector gains the qualification of its highest order. One thing to be appreciated is the way they acquire the qualification is so perfect that everything is made legal, and no proof can be ascertained. Why I write all these is, this gives the students a wrong example to concentrate in other untoward practices rather that studies.

Unwanted free bees: The revenue generated by the Government through various taxes and other methods are not utilized properly. Instead of spending on developing the country, they spend a lot in free bees to attract the poor. It can be spent on education to strengthen the knowledge of the Nation. The free bees given by the Government, makes the people more lethargic instead of making them productive. Thereby the efforts of somebody is wasted by somebody for the unproductive somebody. These funds may also be spent for research activities to increase the standard of the education and intern the country.

Non-existence of infrastructure in Government Institutions: In today’s scenario, the parents prefer to put their wards in Private institutions, because of the infra structure and other facilities. And for that they charge exorbitant fees to maintain the decorum. Though, the government collect enough fund, they don’t spend on improving the infrastructure of the Government Institutions at school level. Also, the teachers don’t have the intention to update them and create an environment to attract students.

The caste system in education: If we look into the history of caste system in India, it is quite confusing. But in the early Independence era, it helped in distributing the power and authority to all class of people in India. It supported the lower category people to come up and get recognized in the society. But still, the discrimination among the people never eradicated. However, the science developed, human could not understand that GOD created all as equal. Every individual has talent some trait, which may be in any field. If we train them in the interested field they can shine and do wonders. So, we can find a way to categorize people based on their talent. The prevailing system creates a barrier in the mind of the people to utilize the quota and not to empower their skills. Slowly, we can remove this barrier and induce the competitiveness in the people and crate a healthy competition to improve the standard of education. The deserving should get the deserving course / job.