Low life

Met her today. She is just 8. Interestingly she wants to study. She wants to go school. She doesn't want to beg but her mother forced her to do so.

I asked her why do you need money? She replied "I want food. I want to eat. I want to grow up and i will then go to school because my mother said we need money for that"

Is this corruption or just ignorance?
Don't you think they also have equal rights for education? Why do they beg if there are free primary education in India?

"The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the State may, by law, determine. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which represents the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A, means that every child has a right to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfies certain essential norms and standards."

Really? I don't think that there's any free education. Student still need to pay tuition fee, examination fee and many other fees even is Government primary schools.

How free is our free education in India? The financial and materials incentives provided by the Government are found to be available only to few students. There are large scale interstate and inter-group (by gender and by region rural and urban) variations with respect to several aspects relating to public provision of incentives and also to the levels of household expenditure on education.

India also faces many challenges that could be tackled through the education system. For one gender issues have come to the fore because of the spate of recent cases of violence against girls. Changing gender mindsets seems to be imperative and gender studies education is one way of doing so. 

Currently spending on education is low in India, and stands at 3.4 percent of the GDP. The U.S. might be able to help make it more of a priority, and nudge the government to increase spending on education. 

The most important resource is Education. We need to preserve this first. 

Happy reading 😀