Primary Education in Rural Areas – Initiatives to Ensure Quality Education

Education

The development of any country depends upon the education system it has and the percentage number of its citizen acquiring basic education. In developing countries such as India providing the basic education during the primary school is a very difficult task due to the various reasons. One of the main reasons is that most of the Indian population is rural and lives in remote villages where providing primary education is a very cumbersome task. The Government of India has been taking initiatives, since independence, to provide primary education to children in villages by incorporating various schemes to attract children and their parents to enroll in schools. The government has started Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) to provide primary education in rural areas and also introduced Right to Education (RTE) act that focus on Education being a right of every Indian citizen. However, still we find that many parents do not enroll their children in schools, at times the enrolled students are dropping out of the school after 1st or 2nd class. This makes the task of teachers very difficult to provide the education to children in rural areas. This paper mainly focuses on the problems faced by teachers and the initiatives taken by the government to overcome these difficulties.

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